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G.M. to Close Hummer After Sale Collapses
NYTimes ^
| February 24, 2010
| NICK BUNKLEY
Posted on 02/24/2010 1:40:42 PM PST by Steelfish
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posted on
02/24/2010 1:40:43 PM PST
by
Steelfish
To: Steelfish
Hummer is a classic example of what is wrong with this country and liberals in general.
Hummer started out as a fantastic and awesomely cool idea - civilian version of military vehicle. Big, bad, bulky, mean.
Hummer was eventually commercialized, using jeep parts, dumbed down, flashed up, and became a horrifically overprices, gay looking, cheaply built pile of crap.
Good riddance. I hate liberals.
To: Steelfish
The Market does what a decade of screaming liberals couldn’t..
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posted on
02/24/2010 1:43:33 PM PST
by
Paradox
(The Party of Know.)
To: Steelfish
Hell, they could sell hundreds of thousands of them if they would pattern them after the HMMWV with a powerful diesel engine instead of making them huge, ugly luxury vehicles.
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posted on
02/24/2010 1:43:58 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Truth - Reality through the eyes of God.)
To: Steelfish
Honestly, do we really need these beheamoths on our roads? I won’t miss this stupid beast.
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posted on
02/24/2010 1:44:11 PM PST
by
bicyclerepair
(FR - my online family. From Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)
To: Steelfish
Boy these car huckers can’t close one deal to sell a product line. Did they forget to take their drivers licenses and lock the doors? ;-)
To: Steelfish
Boy these car (hucksters) cant close one deal to sell a product line. Did they forget to take their drivers licenses and lock the doors? ;-)
opps!
To: Blood of Tyrants
They did originally start by selling the H1 (civilian HMMWV), and it was available stripped down as a real work machine. Sales were abysmal, because even stripped down, the truck is highly specialized, and cost well over $60,000. Hummer only took off when they started selling the slightly cheaper H2, which is a ruggedized Tahoe with a better body.
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posted on
02/24/2010 1:48:47 PM PST
by
Little Pig
(Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
To: Steelfish
Obama can’t twist Chinese arms.
To: Steelfish
Surely somebody with a spare $150M will buy it!........................
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posted on
02/24/2010 1:49:07 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
To: Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh
Yep. I hate the H2 and H3. Huge, ugly, pimpmobiles. Couldn’t drive through a muddy yard without getting stuck. Make it more like the military version with the offset axles to give great ground clearance.
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posted on
02/24/2010 1:50:08 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Truth - Reality through the eyes of God.)
To: Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh
using jeep parts, This snip tells us you have no idea what you are talking about.
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posted on
02/24/2010 1:51:44 PM PST
by
sam_paine
(X .................................)
To: Little Pig
Got to be able to make them cheaper than $60k.
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posted on
02/24/2010 1:51:46 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Truth - Reality through the eyes of God.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Another company killed by the UAW and Pelosi/Reid 2006 Congress and their NO Energy Policy.
Also tahnk stinking Juan McCain for McCain-Feingold which gave use 2006 Dem Congres and Obama.
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posted on
02/24/2010 1:53:03 PM PST
by
Frantzie
(TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
To: Blood of Tyrants
My friend has a H2.
Egregiously underpowered and uncomfortable...
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posted on
02/24/2010 1:53:42 PM PST
by
TSgt
(RE-ELECT NOBODY - VOTE THEM ALL OUT!)
To: bicyclerepair
Honestly, do we really need these beheamoths on our roads? I wont miss this stupid beast.
Wife wont let you have one huh.
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posted on
02/24/2010 1:54:35 PM PST
by
bikerman
(Buck Farack)
To: Steelfish
The H2 is a pos. Way too heavy. A friend tried to back a 4k pound boat and trailer up a modest grade , it wouldn’t do it . He had to use 4 wheel low.He averaged 10 mpg.
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posted on
02/24/2010 1:55:30 PM PST
by
rsobin
To: bicyclerepair
Honestly, do we really need these beheamoths on our roads? I wont miss this stupid beast.
Wife wont let you have one huh.
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posted on
02/24/2010 1:55:36 PM PST
by
bikerman
(Buck Farack)
To: Steelfish
I remember when the Hummer became the prop of choice for rap and hip-hop videos a few years back. You couldn't make a video, it seemed, without having at least one tricked-out Hummer as a symbol of conspicuous consumption. Got real annoying, really fast.
Fortunately, I have a back up plan to meet my off-road needs:
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posted on
02/24/2010 1:57:57 PM PST
by
DemforBush
(Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
To: bicyclerepair
What does need have to do with it?
Let consumers make their own choices.
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posted on
02/24/2010 2:00:15 PM PST
by
SJSAMPLE
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