From: Dave Cole (DavidCole@tk7.net)
Date: Sun Sep 29 2002 - 18:39:48 PDT
I see those H2's all of the time on car transporters leaving the assembly plant up in Elkhart. I think it is sort of sad what GM did with the H2. They came in
and setup a new assembly building next to the existing AMG facility, brought in people from Detroit to setup a small assembly line and basically capitalized on
the stupidity of the typical American. The Hummer H2 is no hummer, it is a glorified GM chassis with some "looky what I got" sheet metal attached. I'd be
really surprised if that chassis didn't share 90% of it's components with either a GM Pickup truck, tahoe or suburban. What a rip off.
I've seen a couple on the road and all I can think of is "what idiot bought that thing?"
As one of my favorite radio characters, Gilbert Knarley used to say, "Wake Up America!" (You Cincinnatians should recognized that. )
Dave - An ex Cincinnatian.
9/29/2002 8:00:51 PM, Pete & Renee Davis <pandr@metrocast.net> wrote:
>I've seen several on the road up here in Maine. They're cute. Kind of a militarized minivan.
>
>Get ready for a rant...
>
>SUV's are extinct! At least in the US market. They have been replaced by SLV's; Sport Luxury Vehicles. There is nothing Utilitarian about leather seats, CD
players, cruise control, exterior
>thermometers, climate control and all those other frills that the suburban crowd is so enamored with. SUV's were trucks. What passes for an SUV's today is
a pimp mobiles on steroids. The old Land
>Rovers, Land Cruisers, Four Runners and Carryalls and Suburbans were Utility vehicles. As of course are the vast majority of MVs we love so well.
>
>Pete Davis
>
>Patrick Jankowiak wrote:
>
>> Saw the hummer and the H2 together at the texas State Fair today. Hummer is as expected -a civilized HMMWV. H2 is merely another bloated $50K SUV
with no ground clearance and very little in common
>> with the hummer except a few external cosmetics and optional CTIS. Mechanically, reminded me of a Tahoe. Pity.
>>
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