Where have all the Hummers (H2) gone?

[aigel]

A few years ago during the real estate boom you couldn't go a mile on local suburban streets in California without seeing an H2. Now I see one once every month.

I am wondering how many of these were sold and why they are not on the suburban roads any more? I am literally wondering where all these cars went???

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[onewhippedpuppy]

Still plenty around here. A friend makes his living doing Duramax conversions into them. Maybe the greenies ran them out of CA?

[89911]

Exported to Dubai?

[L8Brakr]

They all got married???????

[vash]

Originally Posted by L8Brakr

They all got married???????

well that proves the theory.."once you get married..no more hummers".

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Funny I was wondering this the other day too. Not just the H2s but the Suburbans, Navigators, Escalades and other behemoths from the mid-2000s when boorish "conspicuous consumptionism" stupidity oozed from every street corner almost as readily as fake paper profits from bubble-based real estate transactions.

For one I'm glad those things are (mostly) off the road now. I said it then and I'll stand by it now. The world is a better place with those things heading to the scrapyards of the American hinterlands en masse. To each their own but I certainly won't/don't miss em!

Whoever thought that it was a good idea to put 6,000 and 7,000 pound, poor-handling, overpriced rebodied pickups into the hands of every no-driving-skills, cell-phone yammering, latte-sipping, text messaging, distracted Suzy Soccermom and/or arrogant "my-self-indulgent-ego-masturbation-is-more-important-than-your-family's-life" a-hole out there was tokin' the wacky weed they just legalized in CO and WA!

Good riddance!

Sorry I haven't had a good rant in a while... Felt good!

[porsche4life]

They are all over texas.... Seriously, everywhere....

[aigel]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

They are all over texas.... Seriously, everywhere....

Were they there before? Is this where they went from CA? I guess they are still hip in TX?


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It looks like they only sold a total of 133k and that sales numbers track really well with the real estate bubble and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Once the military Humvee became the target of never ending IED attacks, civilian popularity of the H2 probably weaned quickly as well.

From Wikipedia:

Calendar Year Total American sales
2002 18,861
2003 34,529
2004 28,898
2005 33,140
2006 17,472
2007 12,431
2008 6,095
2009 600

I would like an H1 diesel, but you couldn't get me in an H2.

Fuel consumption on Wikipedia is under 10 from some sources.

G

[JavaBrewer]

Trendy only lasts so long. The H2/3 is/was hideous.

I still see them around here - along with many of the very large SUVs that PoP loves to bash. 10 mpg...ha that's what my wife averages in her Land Rover.

[juanbenae]

South park did a bit on that very topic last week.

[Buckterrier]

The way of the yuppie.

[Noah930]

IDK, I still see a lot of them in my part of town. Maybe they're less common than in their 2006-2007 heyday. But they're nowhere near extinct.

[BeyGon]

I still see Hummers, Escalades, Suburbans and those monster Nissan whatever, Armada, things every day. Lots of them still around. I don't think gas prices bother the people that drive them. Gas prices bother lower income and poor people.

[Rick V]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

Funny I was wondering this the other day too. Not just the H2s but the Suburbans, Navigators, Escalades and other behemoths from the mid-2000s when boorish "conspicuous consumptionism" stupidity oozed from every street corner almost as readily as fake paper profits from bubble-based real estate transactions.

For one I'm glad those things are (mostly) off the road now. I said it then and I'll stand by it now. The world is a better place with those things heading to the scrapyards of the American hinterlands en masse. To each their own but I certainly won't/don't miss em!

Whoever thought that it was a good idea to put 6,000 and 7,000 pound, poor-handling, overpriced rebodied pickups into the hands of every no-driving-skills, cell-phone yammering, latte-sipping, text messaging, distracted Suzy Soccermom and/or arrogant "my-self-indulgent-ego-masturbation-is-more-important-than-your-family's-life" a-hole out there was tokin' the wacky weed they just legalized in CO and WA!

Good riddance!

Sorry I haven't had a good rant in a while... Felt good!

Post of the week

[Scott R]

My brother still sells a lot of the above mentioned cars to his "special finance" customers. The "buy here, pay here" crowd.

[EarlyPorsche]

I think you can pick them up super cheap. I bet they don't even get that poor of mileage as compared to other full size SUV's but the image of the dork's who bought them when they were new will forever tarnish their appearance.

[FLYGEEZER]

They are all on the used car lots here in Kentucky. Us poor folks can't afford to fuel them.

[azasadny]

I haven't seen one in my part of MI in several years!

[SeanPizzle]

Originally Posted by aigel

A few years ago during the real estate boom you couldn't go a mile on local suburban streets in California without seeing an H2. Now I see one once every month.

I am wondering how many of these were sold and why they are not on the suburban roads any more? I am literally wondering where all these cars went???

G

I wondered the same thing up here. Everybody HELOC'd an H2 on 22" rims and had stickers for the multilevel marketing/real estate/mortgage broker business. Now they are absent. I assume many were lease returned or repo'd, but where are they now? Mexico running for the cartels?

[LakeCleElum]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

Whoever thought that it was a good idea to put 6,000 and 7,000 pound, poor-handling, overpriced rebodied pickups into the hands of every no-driving-skills, cell-phone yammering, latte-sipping, text messaging, distracted Suzy Soccermom and/or arrogant "my-self-indulgent-ego-masturbation-is-more-important-than-your-family's-life" a-hole out there was tokin' the wacky weed they just legalized in CO and WA!

Good riddance!

P O P - UR reading my mind, I couldn't have said it better myself.....I had also given recent thought to seeing them disappear about the time the easy money went away in about '07 or '08.....