Hummers and Google
 

Do a Google search for "Hummer H2". Check out the third website listed ......... :)

That's friggen hilarious, no offense to anyone here but I really hate those god d@#n things.....

Hey, I like Hummers!

Oh, the car? Nevermind.......... :rolleyes:

Actually I like the car/truck too, burning @ ~1200F when you can roast marshmellos from 1/2 block away. :cool:

That's great! I'm not usually one to send out "You've got to see this," e-mail to my friends, but I know a few people who will really appreciate that site

Re: Hummers and Google
 

It was in #2 possition when I checked. Moving up, due to popularity. . .tooo funny.

Some of the funniest ***** that I've seen in a while, we're all going to need humor as gas goes to Europe prices this summer and the world gets more screwed-up by the day. :cool:

What's funny about the website is the sheer number of photo submissions!!! I usually see 2-3 Hummers at every intersection around here, now I'm going to have to look around at the surrounding vehicles to see if anyone's giving them "the H2 salute"!!! :D

wOw, that is a lot of submissions...I wonder if the drivers notice all of the "salutes" they are getting...hehe

Very funny:) Both the lifelessness of the posters & the site. Good idea though. I've never gotten the bird in my Rover, am I exempt:)

Its because you have a European vehicle so that makes it okay...anything American is the devil.

I don't have a problem with people who own Hummers...its called freedom of choice. We wring our hands over H2's but do NOTHING about the millions of lawnmowers, edgers, tractors, chainsaws etc that have ZERO emissions equipment and belch, in aggregate a huge amount of a combination of fuel and oil into the atmosphere. Where is the outrage over people mowing their laws? Eco-freaks rarely think through their positions...they could do a lot of good if they did.

"...Where is the outrage over people mowing their laws? Eco-freaks rarely think through their positions...they could do a lot of good if they did."

When idiots drive their lawnmowers to work every day, that will piss me off bigtime.

it's not just the emissions. It's the waste of an excess 3,000 lbs. of steel, plastic, rubber, etc. that takes an enormous amount of energy to produce, adds wear to roads, costs extra energy to drive and takes up an additional (your figure here) square feet of space in parking lots, streets, etc.

If everyone driving a 6,000 lb. SUV or truck without a payload switched to a 3,500 lb car, we probably could get by without Saudi oil.

If everyone would stop driving old Porsches that get 17 mpg...

Everything is relative.

The subject of this thread is not what I thought it might be.

When I drive sanely, I can get high 20's, low 30's

"If everyone would stop driving old Porsches that get 17 mpg..."


How anyone can compare several million 6,000-lb. trucks on the road to a few tens of thousands of Porsches is beyond me.

Hmmm, for some reason, I don't see to many Hummers in the off-road rallys.

I would think that with an engine 3 times as big as a Subarus they would do quite well, and the vehicle is supposed to be purpose-built for that enviroment...

I am one of the few four-wheel-drive owners that actually goes off-road.

I never see any Hummers there. Two trees too close together will stop the Hummer three feet from the pavement. The Jeep keeps going.

That being said, as soon as somebody has the authority to tell someone else what to drive or not drive, all of us Porsche owners are in trouble.

H1/H2 = the little man, small dilsnick syndrome. Something that most of us P-car owners no nothing about. Im serious.

Actually, I thought the HumVee was cool, and there was a point when I would have liked to have had one. But I wanted a HumVee, not a Hummer, in much the same way I'd really like a Scwimmwagen, KubelWagen or Unimog. I still think a mil-spec HumVee would be cool, but what do I know? I drive a non-airconditioned and am slowing eliminating creature comforts like CD changers and sound deadening.

"That being said, as soon as somebody has the authority to tell someone else what to drive or not drive, all of us Porsche owners are in trouble."

Not a lot of Abrams tanks on the road, these days.

I think the massive amount of hatred is cause of your location, big cities, congestion, etc.. Here in Michigan these things rarley cause an inconvenience to anyone else. Live and let live.

America is full of consumers. Where do you draw the line? Do you tell Americans, "Thou shalt not live in 4000 SF homes, because it's a waste of resources." "Thou shalt not remodel thy home because your 60s decor is perfectly functional." "Thou shalt ride public transport even if it means you have to walk 12 miles each day."

My point is everything is relative. You spoke in absolute terms, and I'm saying it's no so d@mn easy.

I fail to see the great advantage at criticising one's choices. After all, the one who chooses to drive the Hummer will defend their choice. Who's going to admit they're wrong?

Are there really millions of 6000lb SUVs on the road? Are there truly only a few thousand Porsches on the road? I don't like SUVs, and I'll do my d@mndest to never own one. I'll respect others decisions, as I would hope they would understand my decision to own a Porsche.

Driving around in circles on the track in your inefficient Porsche is more wasteful than any Hummer. Where does all that driving get you? Nowhere!

Sure I complain about all the idiot SUV drivers, but it's not because they're inefficient; they're just dumb. :cool:

Exactly. And dumb + 7000 lb. vehicle = disaster waiting to happen.

When some soccer mom (late for her PTA meeting, jabbering away on her cell phone) is barreling down the freeway in her urban assault vehicle, I am more worried about the F=M*A side of things.

"Are there really millions of 6000lb SUVs on the road? Are there truly only a few thousand Porsches on the road?"

There have been about 350,000 Porsches produced worldwide. About half are in the U.S. Presumably more than half are on the road, but I'm not sure where I'd find out actual numbers.

Since 1989, 3.1 million SUVs have been sold, and God knows how many "Class 8" trucks which have a Federal tax incentive* that's being applied to the 6,000 lb SUVs as well.

I don't have a weight class breakout, but yes, it's totalling in the millions.

*http://waw.wardsauto.com/ar/auto_loophole_big_enough/

Esp the H2s. . .what a joke! It, and the others based on 1940s (bad) technology make me cring.

Ingredients: Take a heep. . er Jeep; Super-size it, Slap in some leather & cup holders, piece on a tonka-truck facade, a big ol price tag, and Bam. ..the perfect idiot wagon.

At least the HumVee has some engineering behind it.

I've read this thread backwards and forwards 5 times and I can't find the word "Cayenne". I thought for sure I would get somebody to take the bait ...... ;)

i've received some flack about my full size jimmy, 7 feet tall with oversized tires. the commie pinkos who complain usually walk away with there tail between there legs, mumbling, when i tell them i drive less that 2000 miles a year going fishing and to hunting camp and back how many miles do you drive per year. wonder how many days a year these "enviromentalists" spend in the woods?

after all this is america right? i can drive anything i can get licensed by the state and those who complain can suck my tail pipe.

kinda funny how suv owners like jeep cherokees and the like dont see them selves in the same light as hummers. wonder how many pictures were taken from suv's.

well if it makes you feel better, I'm flipping you off right now. ;):D :cool: :p :)

I never would have considered an H2 which is really a Chevy truck frame with a Humvee look alike body. I have a 1989 Chevy truck. Simple, single cab half ton. Weighs 6200#. Great mode of transportation.

But, just knowing that it pisses off all these people, who could probably easily be proven to be hypocrites, makes me want one. What color would you suggest?

Exactly Zeke - unless these critics are all driving Honda Hybrids, they're hypocrits. In fact, if they really practiced what they preached, they'd all be riding bicycles, not motorized transporatation.

So true, and what I don't get is these people usually talk about the right to freedom of choice in the US as a holy grail and a given...but basically they don't want anyone but themselves to have it. Hypocrits - exactly.

I still think the link is funny though.

Ah yes, freedom of choice . . .it is nicely balanced out by freedom of speech.

(read: we get to ridicule those whom make absurd choices- now thats balance)

Yup.

Hmmm.. .is camo back in?

It doesn't really seem that people are playing soldier, as much as they are saying "I demand you resect me, not for my driving skills, but for my absurd size."

Granted, it may be as absurd as playing soldier . . .but not the same. . .or accurate.

Just a question

Do any of you want somebody else telling you what to purchase and drive?

Yeah, I know what you mean. . .those bastards at Hummer keep on trying to tell me what I ought to buy/drive. (their product.)

Then those eco-freaks keep telling me to drive some battery laiden ugly-car. . .full of toxic heavy metals.


AHHHH. . all of these demands! http://www.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/vuur.gif

:rolleyes:

Like I said before; freedom of choice . . .it is nicely balanced out by freedom of speech; in that we get to ridicule those whom make absurd choices.