Wild photo shows off the gigantic size of a mining truck compared to a regular car

A viral Reddit photo shows a Chevy LUV parked in the tray of a Terex Titan mining truck – and it looks like a Matchbox car tossed into a Tonka.

“Core memory unlocked,” one commenter joked, while another swore it looked exactly like the toys they used to play with.

Only this isn’t playtime – it’s the real deal.

And it should come as no surprise that it once held the title of the biggest dump truck on Earth.

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How big is the Terex Titan mining truck, really?

The Terex Titan 33-19 was a one-off prototype built in 1973 by General Motors’ Terex division. 

At 260 tons empty, it was the largest dump truck in the world until the late 1980s.

It measured nearly 69 feet long and almost 23 feet tall, and rolled on tires bigger than an average human. 

The car in the viral photo – identified by Redditors as a Chevy LUV (an Isuzu pickup rebadged by GM) – barely fills a corner of the tray, like a toy swallowed by its sandbox.

Underneath, the Titan was even crazier. 

A 169-liter, two-stroke, turbocharged V16 diesel sat at its heart, originally designed for locomotives. 

It generated 3,300 horsepower at 900 rpm, powering four electric drive motors. 

One commenter quipped, ‘hope this thing’s got assisted steering,’ which, frankly, it did need.

Fuel economy? Forget it. 

The Titan drank 265 liters an hour and topped out at just 30mph. 

But it could haul a 700,000-pound payload – the equivalent of more than 400 Suzuki Swifts – making it worth every drop for mining operations.

The truck worked in California and then in Sparwood, British Columbia, before retiring in 1991. 

Today, it sits outside Sparwood as a tourist attraction. 

Locals chimed in on the Reddit thread with nostalgia, calling it a fixture of their town.

And thanks to one photo, the Titan’s legend just got bigger all over again.

Big trucks, bigger appetites

The Titan might be retired, but its modern descendants are just as jaw-dropping.

Take Caterpillar’s 797F – a mining truck so thirsty it burns through as much fuel in a single day as most cars do in a year. 

With a 400-ton payload and a $1.6 million annual fuel bill, it makes the Titan look almost frugal.

That hunger for size isn’t unique to mining.

American trucks have been getting bigger and bigger over the years, thanks first to a 1970s ‘chicken tax’ on small imports, then fuel economy laws that favored giant pickups. 

The result? 

Today’s F-150s and Silverados dwarf their ancestors, proving that in both work and play, bigger still rules.

And yet, even against that backdrop, the Titan still stands apart. 

Long retired, it doesn’t need to move an inch to remind us it was built bigger than belief.

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