GMs New GIANT Hummer Starts At $140,000

[matcom]

<snip>

It's bigger and badder and would be right at home with the GIs patrolling Baghdad. :puke:

GM is taking the wraps off the 2006 Hummer H1. The military-style Humvee gets a new Duramax turbo-diesel V-8 in the upgraded Alpha model.

The 300-horsepower engine is needed to move the 7,600-pound beast.

The civilian Hummer has touches GIs can only dream about, like air conditioning, power windows and door locks, a premium stereo system and leather-trimmed seats.

But you need something like the Pentagon budget to buy one. The hardtop Hummer H1 has a sticker price of $140,000.

The last model started at around $106,000. There's no official government fuel-economy rating yet, but the two fuel tanks hold about 52 gallons of gas which GM says should get you almost 600 miles.

http://www.wftv.com/automotive/4379372/detail.html

[gWbush is Mabus]

1. if you have a really really really small penis

[LynneSin]

14. I think you're required to show your small penis to the sales person...

...in order to buy one of them.

[demnan]

2. How disgusting!

Who would want that monster! There are bridges you couldn't go over with that thing.

[DS1]

3. mmmm, 11 mpg

Gotta have one. The Gas Pump is the new Watercooler.

[Mr. Flibble]

31. Very petty how they skip around the issue by saying 52Gl/600Mi.

[barb162]

4. Arnie S. can trade in his 3 old ones for this

10 mpg, very impressive mileage in these coming days of oil shortages

[stevedeshazer]

5. Pretty rosy fuel economy statement

52 gallons for 600 miles? It would have to get > 11 mpg. No fucking way.

[The_Casual_Observer]

19. Perhaps they meant 52 gallons per tank.

No wonder GM is doing so badly. Almost no one would buy anything like that, even rich stupid people.

[gollygee]

6. My husband said some auto company is going to make hybrid SUVs

is that so? Seems pretty stupid.

I hate parking next to the "small" Hummers. Can't imagine a parking lot filled with those.

[madrchsod]

7. a new whip for the music industry crowd

and assorted riff raff...

[tridim]

8. 52 gallons, 600 miles (obviously highway mileage)

That comes to about $130 to fill the tank and about $1.00 for every 4 miles traveled. City driving is probably twice that.. $1.00 for every 2 miles. Hey, maybe Bushitler can give a bigger tax break if you buy the bigger Hummer to offset the extra crappy fuel economy. GM, moving backwards with a vengeance.

[Mutley]

9. does this remind

anyone else of the Canyonero song from the Simpsons?

[Mutley]

10. does this remind

anyone else of the Canyonero song from the Simpsons?

[Mutley]

11. does this remind

anyone else of the Canyonero song from the Simpsons?

[Mutley]

12. how'd that go in twice???

:shrug:

[matcom]

13. THRICE even

[Mutley]

15. D'OH!

Sorry everyone... i don't know how that happened... i didn't even hit refresh or anything...

:cry:

[Lerkfish]

20. "thrrrrriiiiice, even!"

[Endangered Specie]

22. Every time you press the "post message" button, it will post.

if you press it three times, youll get 3 identical messages.

[terrya]

16. I know I'll see some of these things lumbering down the streets of Chicago

Very soon.

Two fucking gas tanks. An unspeakable obscenity in these times of our servicemen and women dying in Iraq.

[HughBeaumont]

17. Ah, the newest PCV for the HE-SUBURBANITE!!!

FEATURING A GIANT-ASSED REAR WINDOW SO YOU TWO-UNS CAN PUT THEM DUBYA-04 STICKERS ABOVE YOUR 50 "SUPPORT YOUR TROOPS" MAGNETS, THE IRONY OF WHICH WILL COMPLETELY ESCAPE YOU LIKE A BUDWIESER-FART IN THE WIND!!!!

Fucking ridiculous.

[jmowreader]

30. No "support your troops" magnets on this thing

H1s have aluminum bodies and fiberglass hoods--it's so they're light enough to put on an Air Force cargo plane.

No, you'll just have to plaster it with Dubya-04 stickers and "My Penis is So Small I Have To Hold It With Tweezers" decals. But no magnets.

[4_Legs_Good]

18. 600 miles per fill up is about what I get in my Insight

So I guess it's as good for the environment as my car!

I can't argue with that.

Then again, my car has a 10.8 gallon tank.

david

[MissMillie]

21. Makes you just want to go out and buy an American-made car

:sarcasm:

[Endangered Specie]

23. Hmmm... 52 gallons at $2.50/gal = $130. thats gonna sting.

:nopity:

Oh, and thats $156 if it hits $3 a gallon.

[Worst Username Ever]

24. That is less than 12 miles per gallon.

52 gallons to go 600 miles.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

25. Notice it's the "Alpha" model...

I mean jesus-fucking-christ on a cracker, can you GET any more obvious in an attempt to pander to the penis-compensator crowd???

These days I don't flip Hummer drivers off or shoot them angry looks, I just start laughing as hard as I can in their faces. That seems to burn them up even more. :evilgrin:

[supernova]

26. And how many of these behemoths does GM plan on selling?

with gas anywhere from 2.50 - 5.00 gallon?

This is just too rich. GM is going to almost put itself ot of business trying to sell it in the same market that has USED PRIUSs sometimes going for more than new ones.

[MadHound]

27. Well, at least it is a diesel engine.

Which can be converted over to biodiesel. But how many will actually do that is the question.

Still and all, another useless penile compensatory vehicle hitting the road.:eyes: And what's really funny is that all of the people who really do need serious off road reliabilty and ruggedness all laugh at these useless vehicles.

[matcom]

28. kick

for the evening crowd

[flamingyouth]

29. You'd need a home equity loan to fill the gas tank

Idiots.

[Biased Liberal Media]

32. Okay, I'm sorry but why the hell would an ordinary civilian need

one of THOSE??

Well, besides having to compensate for a small penis?