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End of the line for Hummer cockmobiles?
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twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Dear Cobbles,
Thanks for your job application.
It has been rejected.
Sincerely,
Lord Gnome
Fair do's - you couldn't afford my expenses, never mind the salary.
jugularvein
extra
tedious performance.
Unlike a Hummer which is fun performance (not the tedious H3 jobbiepseudo Hummer).
Hydrocarbons are merely fun-juice like Bolly.
jugularvein
extra
better. bet you're a complete ledge aren't ya
Ledge being something that other things ( like dole-ites) rely upon for their support.......
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
I make it part of my civic duty to give the wanker sign to any hummer driver I see waiting at the lights when I cross. Sometimes for variation the tiny penis sign.
T & P
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Given his slightly disturbing obsession with cars, one would have thought that at least Cobbles actually knew a bit about them.
But it seems that is not the case. Anyone who claims one of the defining and most acomplished vehicles of the 20th Century is 'tat' and that an oversized converted off-road military vehicle is preferable is utterly clueless about motoring.
Presumably tractors (real tractors, not Chelsea ones) are also preferable to Golfs, seeing as they cost more money eh Cobs?
But it seems that is not the case. Anyone who claims one of the defining and most acomplished vehicles of the 20th Century is 'tat' and that an oversized converted off-road military vehicle is preferable is utterly clueless about motoring.
Presumably tractors (real tractors, not Chelsea ones) are also preferable to Golfs, seeing as they cost more money eh Cobs?
onthebrightside
thinking too much
My diesel VW achieves 50+ MPG and is as comfortable and reliable as I could ask for. That is when I can afford to actually put any diesel in it 
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
which is just as well as the milatary ones tend to roll over on to their backs quite easily, the doors jam shut and lock soliders in side leaving them to burn with the flaming corpse of the car...
http://www.democrats.org/a/2007/05/bush_veto_stops.php
Pingu
Credo
probably changed now but in somalia the yanks complained that ak rounds went straight through the "armoured" doors. they used to wind the windows down so that the bullet proof glass added extra armour. (the glass didnt stop the ak rounds eitehr but combined the door armour and the glass did)
Skhodra in Albania has about a dozen kicking about.
Thye have an uncanny ability to be able to park wherever they want with utter impunity - right in the middle of the main street for example, and no ne says a word
The fact that is the border town on one of the most important smuggling routes in the Balkans is neither here nor there of course
Thye have an uncanny ability to be able to park wherever they want with utter impunity - right in the middle of the main street for example, and no ne says a word
The fact that is the border town on one of the most important smuggling routes in the Balkans is neither here nor there of course
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Elvis Parsley
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really? it doesn't look that way
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That is shocking and pisspoor beyond description. You'd probably have stood a better chance in a 2CV.or the schoolbus
Don't those things have even a primitive safety cage?
Fucking piece of shite.
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
really? it doesn't look that way
i think i'd rather have been in the other SUV
or the schoolbus
got links to the explainations of both of those the first one at least is standard of modern cars where the front is destroyied but the inner passenger cell is fine... the second one... hmmm i'd want to know more...
Elvis Parsley
Well-Known Member
strange in what way? shopped?
Errol's son
Well-Known Member
http://uk.reuters.com/article/innovationNews/idUKN0425421420080605
Somone like Tata or a rich Russian will buy it and flog them to the wealthy within oil producing countries where the price of fuel is cheaper than chips. They are already very popular in places like UAE and Angola.
Somone like Tata or a rich Russian will buy it and flog them to the wealthy within oil producing countries where the price of fuel is cheaper than chips. They are already very popular in places like UAE and Angola.
mauvais
on reddit or something
Apparently the Hummer driver in the bus crash survived: http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/-hummer-vs-school-bus-ar16906.html
I always understood that US crash standards are a bit shit by default, e.g. this from a while back: http://bridger.us/2002/12/16/CrashTestingMINICooperVsFordF150/
I always understood that US crash standards are a bit shit by default, e.g. this from a while back: http://bridger.us/2002/12/16/CrashTestingMINICooperVsFordF150/
mattie
missing in inaction
I ust doesn't look 'right' - the rear of the car hasn't got a concertina shape, it's like the whole front section has collapsed independently of the rest of the structure.
eta: Just read mauvais' link, it may be that the hummer has a truck construction and not a car, i.e. it's not a complete chassis but a trellis with body just dropped on top - so if the impact is above the trellis the body just disintegrates. Which is pretty shit.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
remember the fire brigade will have removed quite a bit of metal by the time the photo was taken to get the driver out..
The Hummer H2 is basically a rebodied Chevy Tahoe and has no common parts with the military vehicle.
The Hummer H2 is basically a rebodied Chevy Tahoe and has no common parts with the military vehicle.
which is why they are completely useless as offroad vehicles. the H2 is too heavy and wide and the chassis is soft, H3 is even more poo although not as big. you've got too feel a bit sorry for the people who buy them!
George & Bill
semiotically superfluous
FridgeMagnet
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It wouldn't surprise me an awful lot. The original H1 was designed to be basically bloody enormous, and I imagine survive collisions by sheer size, height and mass, the fact that it was bigger than anything else that it was likely to hit apart from a mountain, at which point it doesn't make that much difference what you're built like. (Go on YouTube and you can see videos of H1s driving through Baghdad at top speed through heavy traffic - they just pile over everything or knock it to one side.) SUVs and trucks are designed for the size they are, but just shrinking the basic Hummer design to actually fit on a road isn't going to be quite the same.
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