# I am seeing entirely too many Hummers on the road! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 9, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677 "2003-06-09T17:36:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/21 "2003-06-09T20:45:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Just Some Guy \* > **You know it’s bad enough to see those three parking spot eating monsters on the road, but almost all of them I’ve seen are also also that hideous school bus orange color.** Interesting, almost all the ones I’ve seen are hideous school bus yellow. I say unless your Hummer has a .50 caliber machine gun on the back, you’re a wuss. ---
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/22 "2003-06-09T20:53:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sunfish \* > \*\*Oh, but you haven’t lived until you’ve seen a [Hummer stretch limo.](http://www.nicolls.com/hummer.htm) \*\* I saw one of the gas station the other day (filling up at the next pump over). Nobody believed me when I told them about it, and I was beginning to think I was hallucinating. Now I wish I had been! Ugly thing, stretch or otherwise… ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/23 "2003-06-09T20:59:14Z")
Best thing I can say about them is that I do dig the music in the Hummer commercial… _Buuuhh bwuuh bwuuh bwuuh dee de de Buuuhh bwuuh bwuuh bwuuh…_ Makes my uncoordinated, white ass wanna get up and dance Baby! Whoooo! ---
**Author:** ![Doc\_Nickel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@Doc\_Nickel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doc_Nickel)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/24 "2003-06-09T20:59:54Z")
> [@](#): > > **I say unless your Hummer has a .50 caliber machine gun on the back, you’re a wuss.** My Corvair has a missile-launcher, does that count? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/25 "2003-06-09T21:02:33Z")
> [@](#): > > My Corvair has a missile-launcher, does that count? “Wolverines!” ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/26 "2003-06-09T21:08:45Z")
They handle great (suprisingly so for a SUV of that size), and are phenomenaly comfortable. People spending $55k or so on a SUV shouldn’t be bitching about the gas bill. ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/27 "2003-06-09T21:08:56Z")
They handle great (suprisingly so for a SUV of that size), and are phenomenaly comfortable. People spending $55k or so on a SUV shouldn’t be bitching about the gas bill. (The H2, that is. Dunno about the ‘H1’.) ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/28 "2003-06-09T21:15:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fin\_man \* > \*\*While I agree that the mpg for SUVs is lower than cars (on average), this is America were we have the freedom to buy what we want if we can afford it (within reason, of course). If states want to regulate the emissions (as most - if not all- do) and make SUVs undrivable, great. Let them. Until then, we’re just going to have to suffer. \*\* Thank you for making it very clear that giving the rich a _carte blanc_[sup]\*[/sup] tax break will not create jobs. This is how they spend their money, on F-U luxuries. [Don’t get me wrong, if you want to give tax breaks to the rich, do so, but insist it be linked to business re-investment, and not land yachts.] ## Peace. [sup]\*[/sup]The French was intentionally inserted to infuriate the überpatriots.[sup]\*\*[/sup] [sup]\*\*[/sup]Same thing for the pseudo-German. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/29 "2003-06-09T21:25:52Z")
Has anyone else seen their new ad campaign? “B to the L to the I to the N to the G” I’m not kidding. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/30 "2003-06-09T22:06:51Z")
Wassamatta, folks? Just jealous cause you can’t afford one? 😃 * * * Fagjunk Theology: Not just for sodomite propagandists anymore. ---
**Author:** ![jeevmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@jeevmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevmon)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/31 "2003-06-09T22:29:47Z")
Maybe it’s a [tax](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/104601_hummer17.shtml) thing. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/32 "2003-06-09T22:30:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ElwoodCuse \* > \*\*Interesting, almost all the ones I’ve seen are hideous school bus yellow. > \*\* I’m not sure if that was a contrast to my school bus orange, but if it was I suspect we’re just off on a matter of semantics. Whichever it is, it adds an extra layer of painful eyesore to an already ugly machine. Why not get reflectors to go the whole way around it while you’re at it? Perhaps a flip out warning sign with blinkers for when you come to a stop at a light. ---
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/33 "2003-06-09T22:31:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Brutus \* > **They handle great (suprisingly so for a SUV of that size), and are phenomenaly comfortable.** But useless! At least a third of the rear cargo compartment is taken up by the spare tire. Inside there isn’t that much room. They are _not_ a good handling vehicle (yes, I have driven one). They’re like an SUV without the S or U. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/34 "2003-06-09T22:39:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Einmon \* > \*\*I’m rather tired and _Hummer_ means _Lobster_ in German, \*\* So _that’s_ why Margareta put those lobsters in the bed! I was really beginning to worry what it meant. Dating a psychotic German is fraught with all kinds of problems. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/35 "2003-06-09T22:39:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gatopescado \* > **Wassamatta, folks? Just jealous cause you can’t afford one? 😃** And I’m sure NONE of the Hummer-buyers took out loans to “pay” for their egomobile. 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![hermann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b487fb/32.png) [@hermann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hermann)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/36 "2003-06-09T22:43:32Z")
It’s a free country. Besides, the Aztec has to be the ugliest thing ever on four wheels. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/37 "2003-06-09T22:44:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jeevmon \* > \*\*Maybe it’s a [tax](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/104601_hummer17.shtml) thing. \*\* :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/38 "2003-06-09T22:45:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Necros \* > \*\*But useless! At least a third of the rear cargo compartment is taken up by the spare tire. Inside there isn’t that much room. They are _not_ a good handling vehicle (yes, I have driven one). They’re like an SUV without the S or U. \*\* Define ‘S’ or ‘U’ then. We took my friend’s H2 out on our monthly shooting expedition. 3 **Brutus** -sized adults, 5 rifle cases, assorted and sundry boxes and sacks, all in uttter non-elbow-rubbing comfort. Seemed like way more interior room than my Trailblazer. Regardless, they really aren’t my bag. For the money, I would rather get into the X5 4.4i that I’ve been eying. (Then again, I am biased against buying American horseless carriages. Lease? Sure. Buy? Uh, no thanks.) ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/39 "2003-06-09T22:59:42Z")
The original comercial HUMVEEs looked cool. They looked like a real truck. The new H2s look awful, like a gelded version of a once proud stallion. The H2 is NOT a Humvee, no matter what name you stick on it. If I wanted a Humvee, I’d be ashamed to drive anything other than a military surplus vehicle. Can you even get a milspec Humvee anymore? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/40 "2003-06-09T23:01:43Z")
Oh ick! I just looked them up on Google Images. UGH!!! They’re hideous! What the hell would one NEED one of these things for, if not for status? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677.md?page=3)