Hummer sold to China
Posted on Jun 12, 2009 - 5:33pm by Everitt Mickey in Business, Economy
So I’m sitting at the house drinking a beer while checking the news on my computer. I bring up Drudge and Hummer sold to China just about jumps off the screen. Amazing. I like Drudge but as Ronald Regan said many a time “Trust but Authenticate”….or maybe that’s not what he said exactly but you get the idea. So I run a Google search “Hummer Sold to China” Sure enough.
I’m not really sure what I think about that.
Hummers are big, don’t get very good fuel economy and they’re ugly. I don’t mean ugly I mean UGLY!!! Like, beaten with an ugly stick ugly.
And I like em.
If I were in the market for a new car I’d buy a Hummer. I don’t CARE if it get’s poor gas mileage. I look at it as “prepaid life insurance” If I get hit by some moron I want to be the one that lives thru it. Not being too arrogant (hey….I’m a Trucker AND a Texan…some arrogance is built in) but I DO know how to drive safely. I’ve got over a million miles accident/ticket free.
That being the case I don’t trust the other folks on the highway. Like I said if one of them get’s a sudden case of the stupids and hits me I want to be driving something BIG. Size counts. I’ll pay the extra money for poor fuel economy to carry the protective steel coating around me. The armor. Besides, at just about six foot tall and waaaaay beyond two hundred and fifty pounds I’m not a little feller. I need room. Today’s econoboxes and the mandated new death traps by our Lords and Masters aren’t for me. I doubt I could even get into one of them much less drive one for any length of time.
Plus another major selling point. Greenies HATE Hummers. They about get apoplexy when they see one. This is a good thing. I’ve been bombarded with green propaganda for so long and it’s been so wrong that I’m revolting. Greens aren’t just wrong, they’re stupid. I’m tired of it. Anything I can do to annoy a green is on my “to do” list.
So. I’ve always wanted a Hummer but I never thought I’d be able to afford one.
However. If GM sells the brand to China. Well now. We all know how well GM has done in the past. What most folks don’t know is how well China has done recently. A country that has plans for over a hundred nuclear power plants isn’t stupid. I’ve seen stupid and that ain’t it. They seem to be looking reality square in the face and spiting in it’s eye. My kinda people. That annoys the greens immeasurably, another plus.
I wonder what theyre going to do to the Hummer? I wonder what it will cost after they take over? I wonder if I can trade my current GM prouduct in on one?
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Want a Hummer? buy a GMC pickup, same thing.
Want to SURVIVE a crash in a Hummer, buy a surplussed Military Hummer, not one of these ugly ass, fiberglass pieces of crap sold to under equipped yuppy girlie men.
Then again, read “Dear GM, Drop Dead.” (Buy a Ford, if you must buy Detroit) The civilian Hummer is a fiberglass body on a couple of different GMC frames (depending on size) and they are no where near as tough as they are advertised to be. I saw one wasted in a head on with a Toyota SR5.
I would love to have a real, honest to god hummer and I’ll wait till I can get a good deal on a surplussed machine.
I too want one … but I agree with Terence … I want a REAL one … just like the old ORIGINAL Jeeps … there’s something to be said for the drab, soilidity of good ol made for the US Army hardware.
Nothing like the H1… the original HUMMER which could climb a tree… and was retired in 2006. Then they came out with the not so cheap in price but cheaply made models. I am far from being a “Greenie” but lets see what China has to offer. Probably lower prices…. and, they will be made out of Melamine and of course painted with Lead paint.
Now if hummer is sold our to China then what of the military hummers from which the us relies on in wars? Will US military hummers be made in China? Would you want our military vehicles being made elsewhere? What if we go to war with China?