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GM to shut down Hummer

And that's kind of a good thing, no? Of course, that means that roller skates are starting to look damn good, eh?

Not if you have to haul anything.

I prefer a truck...

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"Bye Hummer - won't miss you, but be happy that your products will be held up to future generations as icons of a absurd and dangerously self-centered age."
Sorta like disco and Crosby/Stills/Nash.
 
The Hummer is just a GM's Suburban frame with a fake Humvee like skin and almost non of the Humvee's abilities. Mostly they have been a waste of money.
Some of them. The H1 was a civilian version of the Humvee and had the same capabilities. Foir off-road utility, there is nothing better.
 
I honestly thought they were ugly cars and never understood why some one would want one. When my neighbor got one my father and I just mocked him constantly.
Funny... I say the same thing about my neighbor's Prius.
 
Signed,
Middleground,
who lives in the Great White North and has no problems getting around in winter with her fuel-efficient Hyundai Accent sedan.
After the plows come thru.
 
Obviously the market has spoken, as people are no longer buying these gas guzzlers. If their performance was so critical to people's survival in harsh conditions, GM wouldn't be canceling the entire line.

For harsh snow conditions, it's called: winterizing. Look it up.

Actually, if the Dems hadn't sabotaged the economy, made it where no one has any money and nationalized GM, the line wouldn't have gotten canceled.

So, no, the market didn't say jack.
 
Actually, if the Dems hadn't sabotaged the economy, made it where no one has any money and nationalized GM, the line wouldn't have gotten canceled.

So, no, the market didn't say jack.

The Dems? That's funny. The collapse of the housing sector started in 2006.
 
Actually, if the Dems hadn't sabotaged the economy, made it where no one has any money and nationalized GM, the line wouldn't have gotten canceled.

So, no, the market didn't say jack.

I'm sure that 3 $ a gallon gas had nothing to do with Hummers problems
 
I'm sure that 3 $ a gallon gas had nothing to do with Hummers problems
Peeople that can afford to buy an $80k truck are not affected by $4/gal gas.
 
After the plows come thru.

I don't recall one instance where I have had to wade through more snow than my winter tires could handle. Not once. So again, I ask... why do I need a big-assed gas guzzling, road-hogging/wrecking, parking nighmare, testosterone inducing tank?
 
Peeople that can afford to buy an $80k truck are not affected by $4/gal gas.

Actually people that buy those kind of vehicles whine the most about gas prices. They buy them as status symbols. Most really can't afford them.
 
I don't recall one instance where I have had to wade through more snow than my winter tires could handle. Not once. So again, I ask... why do I need a big-assed gas guzzling, road-hogging/wrecking, parking nighmare, testosterone inducing tank?

Musta notta been much snow, then.
 
The Dems? That's funny. The collapse of the housing sector started in 2006.

Oh! Now it all started in 2006? :rofl

Ya'll keep moving the mark farther and farther back...:spin:
 
Actually people that buy those kind of vehicles whine the most about gas prices. They buy them as status symbols. Most really can't afford them.

Bingo, we have a winner here.
 
I don't recall one instance where I have had to wade through more snow than my winter tires could handle.
This means one of two things;
-You dont get that much snow
-You dont go out before the plows come.

Either way, your claim is a farce. Normal cars and trucks can only handle so much snow before travel becomes unsafe (which is usually well before it becomes impossibe), regardless of what car you have or how good you are at driving. This point is WELL before the same applies to 4x4 vehicles, even those so slight as a Liberty or Esacpe.

Its a simple matter of ground clearance -- you wind up on top of the snow and cannot move. I guarantee that if the snow is too deep for a Liberty, you Accent is going nowhere.

So, you go ahead and thnk your Accent is all that and a bag of chips - those in the know about snow are laughing.
 
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Oh! Now it all started in 2006? :rofl

Ya'll keep moving the mark farther and farther back...:spin:

"The United States housing bubble was an economic bubble affecting many parts of the United States housing market, including areas of California, Florida, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Colorado, Michigan, the Northeast megalopolis, and the Southwest markets. At the national level, housing prices peaked in early 2005, started to decline in 2006, and may not yet have hit bottom."
The collapse of the housing bubble led to the recession that started in Dec 2007.
 
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I live in Canada.

N'uff said.

So, your two wheel drive is the best snow busting two wheel drive on the planet? When all the other two wheel drives are stuck, you're still chuggin' along?

I've been to Canada. Williams Lake, BC. Wernt much snow there in November.
 
"The United States housing bubble was an economic bubble affecting many parts of the United States housing market, including areas of California, Florida, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Colorado, Michigan, the Northeast megalopolis, and the Southwest markets. At the national level, housing prices peaked in early 2005, started to decline in 2006, and may not yet have hit bottom."
The collapse of the housing bubble led to the recession that started in Dec 2007.

IOW, "it's Bush's fault"

Even PBO managed to get that in during the Obamacare shin-dig today...:rofl
 
This means one of two things;
-You dont get that much snow
-You dont go out before the plows come.

Either way, your claim is a farce. Normal cars and trucks can only handle so much snow before travel becomes unsafe (which is usually well before it becomes impossibe), regardless of what car you have or how good you are at driving. This point is WELL before the same applies to 4x4 vehicles, even those so slight as a Liberty or Esacpe.

Its a simple matter of ground clearance -- you wind up on top of the snow and cannot move.

So, you go ahead and thnk your Accent is all that and a bag of chips - those in the know about snow are laughing.

In my parts, we don't wait until there's 3 feet of snow before the plows come by. We, as a society of the Great White North, follow weather forecasts, and are prepared when the snow hits. Plows work all day clearing snow, especially on main roads. Heck, here's an idea. Instead of every person having to buy a Hummer or a vehicle that can support 4 fatties, why don't your snow laden cities buy more plows? WOW, how bout them apples, eh!

Like I said, I get around just fine with my Hyundai and my winter tires. Seriously.
 
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IOW, "it's Bush's fault"

Even PBO managed to get that in during the Obamacare shin-dig today...:rofl

Bush had as much or more to do with it than the dems. One would have to be in total denial to totally blame the collapse of the housing and financial sectors on the dems.
Bush and Greenspan created the bubble.
 
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