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10 mpg and $130,000 stripped.
HERE [today.reuters.com]
The World is much safer, good ridence to that Monster!
For all us low riding convertible sports car folks, we celebrate the end of that ugly dangerous beast.
I'd like to see $10 a gallon, then I could ride in traffic and see over a few wheel arches at least.
Keep the tanks on the battle fields, not on the highways!
GM sold 374 H1s in 2005, down 16 percent from 2004.
Can that low figure be correct? I see quite a few of the monstrosities around where I live (and it's not Baghdad).
Yeah, I'd like to see the Navigator, Expedition and Suburban go next. Icons of excess consumption. Really makes me mad when I see actors and jocks in those things.
Sure, because most of what you see are probably not the customedout H1's like Cali's gov/actor puttersa about, but the far more common H2's, which still seems as spacious as one of my earliest apartments. Then again, so does my own tank, but it's far less spiffy.
As a struggling (although not so much this week) shareholder, I am glad they are dumping under selling vehicles.
I believe it comes with a bike carrier...
Dear Santa, all in all, I've been fairly good thus far this year. So iffin you'd like to park one in the driveway, that'll work.
If I drive a bigger car than you do, which I don't, it's not my problem how you feel about.
Just My 2 Cents
Barry
the SUV is the car of choice for the nation's most self-centered people -- and the bigger the SUV, the more of a jerk its driver is likely to be.
it is exactly the mentality that gave birth to the SUV and the Hummer in the first place -- the weak ego, the need to strut a phony toughness, the insecurity, the patriotic narcissism, the false sense that all is solid and protected and that we care for no one but ourselves -- that has turned us into what we are today.Which is to say, the world's bully, the preemptive superpower aggressor, the Great Antagonist, the most openly reviled nation on the planet, equal parts loathed and bitterly envied and grudgingly feared and desperately in need of a long, deep sociopolitical colonic
Hippies, all they do is smoke dope and smell bad. (source - Cartman from South Park) I figured if we're citing source for opinion. ;)
Many times that number drive Mini Coopers including some who can afford Hummers.
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[edited by: lawman at 4:28 pm (utc) on May 15, 2006]
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This sort of monster has to be very limited in terms of customer appeal, lets face it fuel isn't getting any cheaper. Surely the H2's days have to be limited.
Mack.
The H1 is essentially a military vehicle. It was a somewhat popular off-road vehicle but never even close to as popular as the H2. The H2 is the monstrous thing that soccer moms drive around for some reason that I have yet to understand. They're still making that from what I understand.
I hope Brett has the servers setup properly to handle large amounts of smug.
[edited by: woop01 at 1:57 pm (utc) on May 15, 2006]
Edit: referenced post was edited to remove my reference. heheh
I think some people are confusing the H1 with the H2.
Me too. The H1 is Battle Ready. The H2 is a bit tamer. And now the H3 targeting the normal SUV market.
You would think that the writing was already on the wall when Ford stopped production of the Excursion, another behemoth. I have a neighbor who has one that is fully modified. Damn thing has steps that come out on hydraulics so his wife can climb up to get in the driver's seat. ;)
Here's a source [goenglish.com] for you.
