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With its brightly painted guardrails and ladder, the front end looks more like a yacht than a work machine, but the hybrid-diesel Belaz was built for one thing; seriously moving earth. Its two sixteen-cylinder engines get this super duty bad boy going, giving it 13,738 pounds of torque, more than the combined power of seventeen heavy-duty pickup trucks. The company claims a fully loaded Belaz can lug around 450 tons of dirt at 25 mph and never once cry uncle.

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