The list of vehicles that I wish hadn’t made it to production might be a bit long, but one name stands out as the most flawed publicly available vehicle ever. The engine selections were barely adequate, bordering on useless. The interior space made a medieval torture chamber look better than the high-roller suite at the Aria in Vegas. It made noises not heard since World War II bomber production shut down, weighted as much as a earth mover and it’s only genuinely positive attribute was the off-road capability that the big truck offered, especially when pushed to the limits. The AM General Hummer, which evolved into the Hummer H1 after General Motors acquired the rights to Hummer production from AM General, was basically an M998 HMMWV military truck with one of several roof treatments and pretty paint. Unless you were the driver, the HMMWV/Hummer is a cramped beast that is best used as either a workhorse or an off-road toy. Instead, the civilian Hummer became the “it” celebrity car, partially due to the influence Arnold Schwarzenegger had in bringing the vehicles to the civilian market. They were unbelievably expensive, and only the 2006 Hummer H1 Alpha had a proper amount of power; previous examples had horsepower ratings at or under 195 horsepower. While the Ford Excursion might have stolen the limelight for the “huge SUV”, the Hummer H1 was the point where things got stupid.
Knowing someone who owns one leads me to think, “small man’s syndrome”. I’m surprised he doesn’t need steps to get in it.
sorta bunned out that these are crappy…I always thought the first ones were kinda cool – not the `street’ versions but the military jobbies. Theres a later model one that lives near me, owned by a guy that owns a place called Wheelworx – apparently a wheel shop that specialises in huge tasteless blingy crappy wheels. To illustrate this fact, this hummer has rims that must be 35 inches in diameter with rubber band tyres – utterly horrible. Every time I see it I point and laugh, and every time he gives me one of those little wink and a nod deal that says ` yeh, great isn’t it?’ I want to go to his shop just to tell him how much I hate his wheels and his stupid hummer….
Even the original striped down military ones stink, especially in the room/comfort area. I’ve seen a Hummer chassis under a 73-91 Suburban which with the late up-armor motor and trans could be a winner.
That would actually be really cool.
I worked for a guy who bought a dealer demo from a chevy dealer in Dnever. It had a waaranty printout about an inch thick. He blew up the diesel and then sent it out to the guy in Florida that did 502 swaps with mercury marine fuel injection. It ran pretty good after that!
Actually thats “Denver” but to me it is now “D-never”.