Some guy parks his H3 on my street and it gives me a barely-controllable desire to put something through the window every time I see it. As a cyclist I am so tired of giant wannabe off-road cars, and the Hummer epitomizes the very worst of this excess.
Floating around somewhere on the internet is a picture of a Hummer which has run head on into some kind of Ford pick-up, the level of damage done to the Hummer in comparison to the damage on the Ford should make you feel a bit better.
Earth First used to make stickers that you couldn't remove without taking off the car's paint, too. My favourite read: If your dick was as small as mine, you'd need a muscle-wagon, too.
The wierd thing is, there's a car hacker out in Kansas who retrofits biodiesel and electric motors to Hummers, and they jump from 9 or 10 mpg to (he claims) 60mpg.
That is significantly better than a Prius and you still have over 2600kg to move around no matter what kind of engine you have so I think the skeptics may have a point.
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Date: 2008-08-18 11:37 pm (UTC)Or shampoo?
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Date: 2008-08-19 12:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-19 07:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-24 03:26 pm (UTC)If your dick was as small as mine, you'd need a muscle-wagon, too.
If only they still sold them...
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Date: 2008-08-19 12:52 am (UTC)http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/120/motorhead-messiah.html
(Some skepticism towards the claim here: http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/01/car-modder-making-60mpg-biodiesel.html, but they still agree you could build a better Hummer.)
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Date: 2008-08-19 07:24 am (UTC)That is significantly better than a Prius and you still have over 2600kg to move around no matter what kind of engine you have so I think the skeptics may have a point.