From: Walter Keller (tokarev@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Sep 29 2002 - 19:18:17 PDT
The H2 is a Humvee with its balls CUT OFF - I knew it was a pee whipped
when I saw that straight rear axle. :-)
Walter Keller
Dave Cole wrote:
> 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.
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> 9/29/2002 8:00:51 PM, Pete & Renee Davis <pandr@metrocast.net> wrote:
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>>I've seen several on the road up here in Maine. They're cute. Kind of a militarized minivan.
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>>Get ready for a rant...
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>>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 They have been replaced by SLV's; Sport Luxury Vehicles.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
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> players, cruise control, exterior
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>>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
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> a pimp mobiles on steroids. The old Land
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>>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.
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>>Pete Davis
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>>Patrick Jankowiak wrote:
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>>>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
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> with no ground clearance and very little in common
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>>>with the hummer except a few external cosmetics and optional CTIS. Mechanically, reminded me of a Tahoe. Pity.
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