Humer Bummer

[G4ALA]

All things must come to an end. Exit the humble Hummer car (car?)

I loved watching these beasts trying to get around crowded London streets. They could scrape the wing mirrors off any parked vehicle. Traffic wardens and clampers found their wheels were too big to do anything.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8536360.stm

End of an era.

John
G4ala

[AG3Y]

Like old Mark Twain once said, "The news of my death has been highly exaggerated" or words to that effect. Sure the Hummer has been downscaled almost since the beginning, but there are PLENTY of BIG TRUCKS out there vying to take its place! Today, I had to go to Lowes, and parked my little Buick between three BIG utility trucks, one on each side, and the other in front of me on the other side of the parking column. I felt like I was at the end of a box canyon !

I cannot understand how gasolene can hover around three dollars a gallon currently, and those things get mileage in the low teens, and still remain soooo popular !

Hummers, RIP, but I'm not going to miss you ONE BIT !

[G0BXU]

We've got a Hummer which drives around in our small town.

The owner is no boy racer, but a 50-something who sits there posing in his burbling machine and blipping the accelerator to intimidate pedestrians as he 'cruises' in his ride all pimped with spotlights and masses of chrome everywhere.

I must be getting old, cos to me he just looks a prat. Obviously one of the 'more money than sense' brigade, still as long as he doesn't ask me to put in the petrol for him - he can continue to be a prat.

[K7UNZ]

Don't blame the machine for what it's owner does with it.

To me, the Hummer is to my 20 year old S-10 Blazer as the new $10K+ radio is to my 19 year old FT-990.

Different strokes for different folks, eh?

Jim/k7unz

[G0GQK]

Nothing wrong with Hummers, as long as they are painted khaki and are used on battlefields ! We have enough problems in the UK, all our roads are used to full capacity with normal cars, vans, buses and 40 tonne articulated trucks and most are too narrow and very hazardous, and Hummers are US designed,and they should stay in the US.

G0GQK

[ZL2MGS]

Nothing wrong with Hummers, as long as they are painted khaki and are used on battlefields ! We have enough problems in the UK, all our roads are used to full capacity with normal cars, vans, buses and 40 tonne articulated trucks and most are too narrow and very hazardous, and Hummers are US designed,and they should stay in the US.

G0GQK

Acutually the latest Hummer, the H3, is a GM Colorado in drag, and I seem to remember reading that the Colorado is actually a form of Isuzu Trooper, designed in Japan.

None of the Hummer series vehicles, of course, should be confused in any way with the Hum Vee, an entirely different class of vehicle.

[W5LDA]

Nothing wrong with Hummers, as long as they are painted khaki and are used on battlefields ! We have enough problems in the UK, all our roads are used to full capacity with normal cars, vans, buses and 40 tonne articulated trucks and most are too narrow and very hazardous, and Hummers are US designed,and they should stay in the US.

G0GQK

Actually if your roads were designed for something bigger than an oxcart the Hummer would fit in nicely

[G7VQE]

Actually if your roads were designed for something bigger than an oxcart the Hummer would fit in nicely

Oxcart........oxcart you say?......Sheer bloody luxury.......all those wheels....huge ox to pull it too if you're rich.

When I were a kid all we had were a wheel barrow and us kids all had to take turns riding in it with father the nine miles to school each day while mother pushed.

Hummer you say,I expect that's one of them new fancy self propelled motor cars the goverment here have been warning us about......they'll never catch on as we've run out of coal again while the miners are on strike.

Dave.

[AD5MB]

Hummers are practically Smart cars in NM.

NM ( and AZ and TX ) is the breeding ground of the Crew Cab Diesel Dually. With the tailgate left down to get better mileage. The owners insist in parking in Compact Only slots up close to the building rather than walk another 20 steps to the Oversize Vehicle parking.

When I were a kid all we had were a wheel barrow and us kids all had to take turns riding in it with father the nine miles to school each day while mother pushed.

if you were American you would add...

uphill both ways

[KR2D]

if you were American you would add...

uphill both ways

and two feet of snow!