Nah, it’s probably not a random thing at all. Mini owners like to get together all the time. One thing I really like about the car is that there really is a sense of brotherhood with fellow owners.
As for big cars, I live in Texas - the land of “duelies” and bigass trucks. You know…a real man’s cars.
Most SUVs I see are driven by women here, too.
One night last winter I was driving from one end of town to the other for a show. Snow was coming down fast and furious and there was already about 8 fresh inches on the ground. I creeped my little car into the gas station for a pack of smokes, and there stood a guy next to his Hummer. That’s the one and only time I’ve ever wanted one of those. I bet he plowed right through the shit. I’ll admit, it looked kinda cool in that snow. Other than that, I think they’re a waste.
Don’t know why you’d want to be seen in a vehicle that seems to elicit negative responses from a sizable portion of the general public.
While out roaming the streets of San Francisco after the first day of bombing, I saw a Hummer pull through an intersection that me and my fellow protestors were partially blocking. In unison, the entire crowd let out a gutteral, low-pitched “grrrr” and we all took 3 steps toward the behemoth before he pulled away.
Not quite sure what we were going to do if we reached him, but it seemed such an elemental hatred, it was almost scary to watch. It really symbolizes evil to a great many of us.
Now, now, hapaXL… it’s just a freakin’ car, dudes, however butfugly. And Starbucks is just a freakin’ espresso joint, however overpriced. Deep breaths, deep breaths all… unreasoned elemental hatred = really, really bad thing.
I would buy an original Hummer in a heartbeat if I still lived in Montana.
I see no reason for buying on while I live in Sacramento.
And if I owned one, and a bunch of protesters started fucking with me, I’d run them down… but that’s just me.
I do think the H2 is a stupid idea though.
I have only seen one Hummer H2 in the county I live in. It was being driven by a young woman about my age (20) and she was wearing a very wealthy business dress. I think she was standing on a ladder so she could see over the steering wheel.
If I was rich I might get a hummer (only maybe because I still want a corvette first). Not likely though unless I become a drug dealer…
or buy a drug dealer hummer at an auction. 
The H2 has a base curb weight of 6400 pounds. I, too, am wondering how hapaXL would have confronted this vehicle.
I’m no fan of the H2, but what would attacking that vehicle have done for your cause? Would you have attacked any SUV that rolled through that intersection–say, a '90 Chevy Suburban or a mud-coated and well-worn Jeep Cherokee–or is your anger directed at SUVs seen as luxury cars?
OOOoooooooooooooooooooooh
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(in my defense, I AM naturally blonde :D)
Well, it’s not unreasoned hatred. Hummers:
a) consume lotsa gas;
b) generate lotsa emissions;
c) clog up narrow city streets;
d) take up hard-to-find parking; and
e) block views of oncoming traffic.
If it was expensive, ugly and normal-sized, it wouldn’t inspire visceral hatred. They are expensive, ugly, gigantic and a genuine irritant on the road. That justifies some hatred.
Hmm… jeevmon,
a) my van gets 10-13 mpg,
b) don’t know about the emissions because I live in a no-testing state,
c) streets aren’t narrow here in St. Paul,
d) it takes up the same parking space that somebody else could use (are you saying that people get pissed off because they’re parking their H2’s in parking lots, as if you could park two smaller vehicles in the same space? :dubious: ), and
e) I imagine it’s kind of hard to see through, being made of metal and all.
So, do people have a visceral hatred of me? If so, I had no idea.
a) Whoop de do. There are lots of cars out there that are more efficient.
b) More gas in, more emissions out. Elementary really.
c) Streets are quite narrow in San Francisco, where the expression of hatred described above. And lots of other places.
d) In San Francisco, Chicago, and other large cities, parking in a lot or garage is not always an option once you leave the downtown. A Hummer takes up a lot of space in parallel park mode, and is wide enough to make it more of a pain to parallel park around them. On a narrow street, it could partially block the lane of traffic that is supposed to flow between lines of parked cars. In a tight parking lot, those things are downright dangerous. Also, as the owner of a Nissan Sentra, I sure as hell don’t want to park near a vehicle whose driver probably can’t see something so far down on the ground. I’m sure a lot of small car owners would agree with me.
e) When a big car is parked next to you in a lot, it’s harder to see around it and, consequently, harder to see when you can safely pull out. If it’s parked at a corner, I have a harder time seeing around it to figure out if I can make a turn or not. The bigger the car, the greater this effect.
Heh heh heh…I have to admit, the reason why this thread caught my attention enough to make me come in had nothing to do with cars…
jeevmon:
“elemental hatred” don’t sound to me like them guys were being very rational about their reaction, 'specially with the “not quite sure what we were going to do” bit.
I have all those same objections to the H2 (plus the aforementioned one of it being nothing but a Chevy cosplaying as a paramilitary vehicle) but I find that in no way “justifies” hatred. Certainly not to THAT degree.
Well you don’t know what they were protesting to guage their ‘fruit loop’ factor. Maybe they ain’t to stable to begin with.
After fleeing from the endodontist this morning, I visited a pharmacy for some pain medication. I parked my baby suv neatly between the lines of a parking space. A VERY LARGE SUV was already parked in the two spaces beside mine.
A woman started shouting at me, but I could not make out what she was saying, for she had a speech impediment. I thought that she was berating me for taking up the space beside the two spaces which her behemoth occupied, but this made no sense to me, so I politely said, “I’m sorry, but I cannot understand what you are saying,” which due the freezing from my root canal, came out something like, “M’m mmmm, mmm m mmmmmm mmmmmmmmmm mmmm mmm mmm mmmmmm.”
Unfortunately, she took great offence at what she perceived to be my making fun of her speech impediment. She started flapping her arms, and raging at the top of her lungs.
I backed away, glad to get out of there before she struck anything.
I beg your pardon, sir or madam, as the case might be.
I guess Hummers don’t do too well in accidents. Here is a picture of one after hitting a Dodge Ram.
Oops, Sorry. I fixed the link.
They are starting to sell these things over here in the UK. I saw a gem of an advert, the man himself (schwarzenegger) was endorsing it. 'This vehicle has been proved in WAR!! on every type of terrain!!).
Fuck Me!! I live in a small country that has excellent roads usually (busy but excellent). When I’m driving myself to work I’m not particularly concerned whether or not my car can make it across a fucking battlefield!!. OK if you’re a rancher with several hundred acres, you need a vehicle with proven off road capabilities, but i just KNOW that when i see these monstrosities on the rodas here they’ll have some pusboil of a yuppie in them, talking on their mobile while cutting someone up because they’re more important, and anyways, if they get in an accident, they’ll come out ok, its the poor sod that gets ground to shit by their wankermobile that has to worry…
Whats next a bicycle endorsed by the friggin SAS…
Preach it, brother! What a wonderful world it would be if people just learned to mind their own fucking business.
