Ha! I'd like to see 45 people carpooling in a Hummer. That's an H2 I assume. Wow, a Hummer produces 45 times more NOx than a Prius. Madness...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tripp @ Jun 26 2007, 04:40 PM) [snapback]468494[/snapback]</div> well said madness indeed just what were the engineers that designed that thinking i cant even imagine
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SureValla @ Jul 18 2007, 07:36 PM) [snapback]481333[/snapback]</div> ROI, baby. ROI.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SureValla @ Jul 18 2007, 09:36 PM) [snapback]481333[/snapback]</div> I know what they were thinking. "If I don't engineer what the bosses mandated, I will get fired."
The dumber part of Hummer has to deal with the fact that initially, AM General was selling but a few hundred civilian Hummers a year, GM saw this and decided they could make a 100k a year business out of that. One comment I read somewhere (Car and Driver perhaps) stated that they were glad that GM didn't take a similar look at Avanti. As a former Army mechanic, I have little respect for those who buy Hummer H1s. They may be formidable off-road vehicles, but used on highways they tended to break down a lot as they were not meant for such speeds. That means I replaced a bunch of engines.
I'd say you're just as confused as a christian biochemist.... You can't see reality even when it stares you in the face.
Do you carry your Prius in davits behind the Hummer? It would make a good tender for getting around parking lots. Tom
You'd have to get 56 people into an '06 VW TDI Wagon, or 88 into an '85 Mercedes 300d even if it is running WVO Rob
True - presumably you do off-roading in the Hummer... My only problem with the Hummer is when people use them as their daily vehicle. They suck up a lot of gas and their large size endangers other vehicles. This can be said of many large vehicles though, particularly the super-jacked up trucks that are so deadly to smaller car drivers. Anyway, the Hummer is by no means the only vehicle like this - probably just more easily noticed.
Tim, I wonder if you could bring suit against someone if they killed somebody with their jacked-up truck. Seems like reckless endangerment or involuntary manslaughter straight away as there's absolutely no reason for those lift kits. They just make the vehicle more dangerous to the operator and others on the road.
