How 'bout those HUMMERS????
 

Hey:
Anyone own an H2? Know Anyone that has one?

Know anything about: Reliabilty? Body integrity? Interior integrity?

I've been hearing anecdotal stories of pieces falling off them and an absolute mechanical nightmare. Not sure if any of these stories are based on even a shred of truth.

Aside from the horrific mileage and the monster spare tire in the back, what are y'all hearing?

I'm thinking about picking one up.

You'll no doubt win the unabashed admiration of your fellow commuters:
http://www.fuh2.com/images/polaroid.jpg

Some of them have been known to spontaneously combust (when doused with combustibles):
http://sfgate.com/c/pictures/2003/08/22/mn_suvarson.jpg

...but other than that, I'm sure they're just fabulous if you're into that sort of excess.

Hummers are arguably the most vandalized vehicle in the US. Consider yourself lucky if you haven't had yours keyed before it's a month old.

Think Different

http://www.mbusa.com/media/images/ma.../G500_main.jpg

Saw a cute video clip of an H2 off road. Rolling through some mild rocks, this H2 broke a tie rod. It's a poser as far as off-road vehicles go -- just a brutish looking SUV built on a GM chassis.

Not much can top the video of the H2 being pulled off a stump by a Jeep. :D

SUV craze is American Made - We did it!
 

It's all marketing and ego problems. The early SUV legislation was a give-away to the Japanese. They threw them a bone by saying the trucks (and classed SUVs as trucks) have low import duty and skirt EPA and CAFE requirements. It was a joke since the Japanese made few trucks and SUVs. The big auto makers found a way to make us the big V-8 and V-10 motors without penalty of CAFE. They also have loose emissions requirements. What a backfire to the US legislature because we have a society of gas gulping, pollution belching vehicles that are unsafe to drive and unsafe to share the road with. There are a few with legitimate use, bur not many. The funny part is most are driven by women. I think its penis envy. The guys who buy them have the same problem, little weenies. If any of this offends you, please substitute “feel powerless” or “ego problem” for the offending reference.

Funny how the hummer hit a nerve. An F-250, and all other heavy duty trucks are the highest mileaged vehicles out there, and have been for decades according to gov't stats. There are alot of these, and the vast majority are driven by one person without a trailer, or cargo in the back 90% of the time. But no one blows a gasket about these. Strange. Image is everything I guess.

Could it possibly be because almost every F250/350 I see is towing a trailer full of calves or loaded with equipment?

Not F150's though. F150's are the Ford equivalent of a Hummer.

All the hummers are garbage. Me and my dad went to the dealer and compared the 12 side by side and then came to the conclusion that the H1 was just 60K more overpriced than the H2. If you just go look at them, you will probably not buy one. And they have the second highest maintenance schedule next to Kia? I think i read that in something, but its believable.

H1 H2 and the REAL macho wheels
 

I think the annoying thing about Hummers is that the H2 in particular was designed to impress one type of person and annoy the Hell out of another type of person.

The Army Hummer is an excellent vehicle for what the Army does with it, which is to carry a whole bunch of soldiers to their war games (they really don't have enough armor to be effective in real wars. Despite this, they are lots better than a Jeep in everything except economy.

But the H1 is too damned big on the outside and when redesigned for rich yuppies with leather seats and all those cupholders, too small inside. So they built a lookaline wannabe Hummer on a GMC pickup chassis and behopld the H2 was born, with a lower price to attract the rich yuppies poor kid brother and an even higher profit margin to please the stockholders and members of the board.

The Hummers are definitely the ugliest thing since the VW Thing.

If it's macho you want, save our money: what will really impress is a 1962 Dodge Powerwagon with a winch on the front, painted in three shades of primer with the words "Gloryhole Mining Co. Tonopah Nevada" stencilled on the door.

One of these makes an H2 look like Liberace in hotpants, Sequined hotpants, but without the talent.

Yet these are the same people that will drive 2000 miles to see a concert. Seems a little odd too me.'

I think the Hummer thing is more envy than anything, I'd drive two at the same time if I could just to piss off the pissniks and armchair enviromental midgets.

...go right ahead, two makes for a much grander BBQ.

The biodiesel wrung from the hair of hippies would make a fine hummer fire starter.

BTW: I was talking about the other Hummer's two at a time to piss jealous guys off, the only exception would be a hummer in a Hummer. A stretched hummer could come in handy.

I didn't know you guys were talking about the trucks.

I wouldn't drive over 20 miles to see any concert, I wouldn't think of incinerating any Hummer, not even Karl Rove's or "Duck" Cheney's.

I can't imagine buying any car just to piss anyone off. Other people's opinion's are about as important to me as their pineal glands.

I drive my Mercedes because I like to drive it. When some roadhog wants around, I always yield, because ******* avoidance is ever so much easier when the ******* is in front of me where I don't have to strain to see him.

Still, I dislike Hummers because it is hard to see around them or over them, and because they are basically a phony vehicle that generally seem to belong to someone equally phony. Or at least here in urban, flat, entirely unmountainous Dade County they do. The people who live out in the Swamp tend to drive somewhat elderly Jeeps and pickups. One does not really need a 4X4 military transport to take Becky-Sue to ballet class.

Still, I will admit they have a right to piss away fifty grand on a stupid vehicle, even if they bought it for the dubious motive or pissing off others.