Top 10 Hummer Moments in History
Ah, Hummer. We hardly knew ye. Well, we actually knew ye real well, but we just stopped liking you. Most of us, anyhow. Still, we have some pretty fond memories. Like when you and General Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf gave us great hope during the first Gulf War. And we loved when Arnold Schwarzenegger was the key to your brand, before he went all soft and started caring about the environment. Oh, remember when all those maniacs claimed you were better for planet earth than Toyota's Prius? Ha ha ha – that still cracks us up. And while we're old enough to remember your heroics when you almost single-handedly kicked Saddam's butt out of Kuwait, our younger friends totally dug riding in stretched versions of you to prom (we had to settle for a stinky old Caddy limo). And now General Motors is selling you – for cheap, too. Is that anyway to treat an icon? Check out our top 10 favorite memories of you.
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sanders 4:10PM (10/09/2009)
This topic is a waste of e-ink. It's done, just like the Nixon presidency, and now it's time to move on.
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TriShield 4:15PM (10/09/2009)
GM purchased a legendary brand name that could have been their own Jeep. And promptly turned into a bunch of big rigs to be blinged out by douche-bags. Then when it call caved in (with the rest of their business) they sold it off to the Chinese for pennies.
Just another example of GM epic fail in action.
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Rich 4:43PM (10/09/2009)
You sir, have won today's comments.
Blown tranny 5:02PM (10/09/2009)
"legendary brand name"???
It was only about 6 years old when GM bought it.
Clavius 5:03PM (10/09/2009)
I can seriously say for once that you've said exactly what was on my mind. They could of but for some stupid reason figured not to do what to me atleast was a common sense move. Saddest thing is if the Chinese do what GM neglected to do and have the brand turn around 10 fold everyone will be laughing at GM.
Nateb123 6:36PM (10/09/2009)
Agreed. And Hummer was truly legendary back in the day. It was just a name you heard everywhere once we caught on to how epic its capabilities as a military off road vehicle were. If only the HX had been made, I agree this could have been GM's jeep. Plus that concept was just badarsed.
Quantumphysics 9:44PM (10/09/2009)
China isn't going to turn HUMMER around. First of all, Chinese people will never buy HUMMERS in volumes high enough to make it successful. I've lived in China. Their cars are junk and the streets aren't designed with parking or autos in mind. They live with the bicycle and motorbike. the only people who will ever own these there are the super rich. The average people live on far less than $30,000 a year.
And if china sends these cars to American shores no one will buy them either. The HUMMER logo is a stigmatism.
the4thheat 10:29PM (10/09/2009)
@Quantumphysics
Your logic is terrible. Most cars in China are indeed cheap but with 1.5 billion people there's enough people who can afford nice cars that the total number of nice cars sold is still very high. That's why Audi sells more cars in China than in the US even though their cars cost a lot MORE money in China.
And they've sold more cars there than the US since 2007, even BEFORE the US auto market committed total seppuku. Last month Audi sold TWICE AS MANY CARS IN CHINA as in the US.
Over 15,000 sales in China in September: http://www.volkswagenag.com/vwag/vwcorp/info_center/en/news/2009/10/Absatz_China.html
Versus 7,200 sales in the US in September:
http://www.autospies.com/news/Audi-of-America-September-2009-sales-fall-4-9-Year-to-Date-Marketshare-Reaches-New-High-48462/
Quit being an idiot-there's 5 times as many people in China as in the US, so the average car can be a much cheaper car but the overall luxury car market is way bigger than the US luxury market (especially now).
Quantumphysics 7:50AM (10/10/2009)
The4thheat
DON'T TRY TO TELL ME ANYTHING.
I've lived in China for numerous years and I recognize that the people there based on their lifestyles and their unwillingness to buy "certain" types of vehicles - as well as their low salaries, are not going to buy it.
Will a large number of people at the top buy it? MAYBE.
Are you seriously comparing an AUDI to a HUMMER?
You just lost all credibility.
T_La 4:21PM (10/09/2009)
GM didn't kill Hummer, society did.
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timwang2006 6:26PM (10/09/2009)
That is at least partially true. GM never intended it as a douchmobile, it just sorta became one. Their mistake was not pulling the plug early.
obie 6:29PM (10/09/2009)
I kind of have to agree with you on that... Hummer got a certain stigma attached to it and became the poster-child of all things bad for the environment. People hate Hummers mostly because of the people who own them (or how they think the people who own them are), although I would say that GM didn't do a fantastic job of managing the brand either.
tanooki2003 9:13AM (10/10/2009)
ROTFL Hahaha Douchemobile!
Now that was good LOL
Brian 4:28PM (10/09/2009)
Seriously, AB?
Ratchet is the medic. Ironhide is the weapons specialist. Those of us who turned 16 more than a decade ago should know this. Although we'll remember Ratchet as the funky looking VW Bus thing, not a Hummer.
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LloydChiro 4:30PM (10/09/2009)
I'd love to make a useful and interesting comment about the content, but it's taking far too long to get to the next picture. Is anyone else having this problem?
And, I agree with Trishield. This could have been GM's Jeep. This could have been their iconic design that would become venerable in the decades to come.
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John Neff 4:33PM (10/09/2009)
Trying doing a hard refresh of your browser (hold down Shift and refresh) or emptying your browser's cache, closing and restarting it.
LloydChiro 6:25PM (10/09/2009)
John, It could have been because I use Google Chrome. Either way, I found I had to click on the next button then refresh. That worked.
BrianFL 4:33PM (10/09/2009)
The Hummer H2 will be a collectors Item in 15 years much like those awesome monster K5 Blazers from the 80s.
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TimO 4:58PM (10/09/2009)
...which were neither monstrous (they're just short pickups) nor collectors' items (routinely under $1500 on Craigslist).
The 67-72 K5s, on the other hand...
MajorGeek 4:48PM (10/09/2009)
Yawn.
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