In your dreams boy!
Submitted: Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:40
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Sand Man (SA)
Guess what’s in my shed tonight Hum? Hum……..Humm…….er…….Hummer.
My wife brought home a nice shiny black Hummer H3 Luxury for me.
I actually thought she had won Xlotto and hearing me rave about the H3 for the past few months, she bought me one:-)
Alas...Not to be:-( The “place” where we work has a Hummer for the week to show to its workforce and herself was given the opportunity to bring it home overnight.
Wow, I must say the General has produced a very capable vehicle here.
It drives superbly. Corners like my racing sprint kart used to and has plenty of grunt.
Pity I couldn’t take it off-road for a really good workout.
Now, I really WANT ONE!!!
If anyone is interested, take a look in my Member's Rig & Profile for some pics.
Reply By: _gmd_pps - Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 03:30
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 03:30
well ... try a H2 and not the pocket version :)) ..
amazing how people are fascinated when they see and/or drive a real 4x4 for the first time and really experience what power and torque means and not that castrated Jap (Toyota) or French (Nissan) wannabees .. lol
have fun with your temporary toy..
gmd
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Follow Up By: Willem - Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 05:30
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 05:30
oh hello misery guts....haven't seen you around for a while......almost missed your inane stupid comments...arrogant prick
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Follow Up By: Gramps (NSW) - Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 07:01
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 07:01
LOL
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Follow Up By: Mamba No 1 - Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 21:29
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 21:29
What are u saying Willem?
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Follow Up By: Willem - Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 22:23
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 22:23
Mamba
I will elaborate via email if you wish. Go to my website below and send email from there.
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Reply By: Willem - Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 05:33
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 05:33
Bill
Yeah I saw one here in the sticks passing by the other day.
Nice looking vehicle but probably out of my reach..:-(
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Member No 1- Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 05:53
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 05:53
"Nice looking vehicle"...WHAT!!!!..... put your glasses on Willem
they're as ugly as.......
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Follow Up By: Willem - Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:02
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:02
Yer just had a look at the specs......
180kw......plenty of grunt
87 lt fuel
tank.......definitely only a city racer for the café latté mob. By their specs a 600km range. Can't see anywhere to carry spare fuel except in jerries.
Oh
well.....
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Follow Up By: Willem - Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:05
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:05
Hmmmmmm....EO won't accept highlighted words like café latté(cafe latte)...interesting
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Follow Up By: Mamba No 1 - Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 21:31
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 21:31
They looked good at the 4b show in
Melbourne, but a 67l
tank. WHAT ARE U THUNKING MR GM? Obviously some dumb ass thought that'd be big enough.
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Reply By: Member - Doug T (FNQ) - Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:07
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:07
Someone in
Atherton has one, on 2 occasions I seen a Yellow one , yummy
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Reply By: Member - bushfix - Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 07:03
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 07:03
is that the old (Ford style) dash handbrake I see, lower left of the steering wheel? Those recovery hooks look very light duty.
Bit like a Yank's version of a Range Rover Sport, would that be a fair comment? ie. capable off road but pretty swanky!
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Reply By: Member - Kiwi Kia - Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 07:08
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 07:08
Whats the width of the wheel track? Will actually fit in 'normal' wheel ruts or do we have to widen all the 4wd tracks for it :-))
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Follow Up By: Axel [ the real one ] - Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:40
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:40
Width of wheel track wont matter much once the new Tojo 200 hits the tracks as has diferent width also , lol.
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Reply By: Kevndeb - Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:44
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:44
A friend of
mine sales the proper hummers ( not the H3) , he is only the dealer in
Perth of the Hummer. I thought I would like it, in get out of the way or i will go through you kind of way...but the proper ones are actually built inside like tanks.... and you won't get much charge out of $200,000+ for a proper hummer, not at all like the one holden is bringing in. And I don't think my mum would like to go shopping in a hummer....
Another friend has a Ocka, and he loves it. And bit like an hummer, everywhere they go in it, people stop and ask him about his toy. He is going across the Nullarbor at Christmas ( different date to us) and spending time in
Melbourne. But being a truck, not alot of caravan parks like it and I would not like to drive it through the city traffic.
Debbie< who's hubby spent most of last night giving the Oka a new radiator for it's pre-christmas trip prep.
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Follow Up By: Sand Man (SA) - Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 15:14
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 15:14
Proper Hummer?
They are all "proper".
The H1 is based on the military speced version and is a BIG vehicle.
The H2 is somewhat smaller but still a large vehicle.
The H3 is similar in size to the Nissan and Toyota 4WD and is definitely a "proper Hummer".
I know of someone who has a H2. Around town he is getting 32l/100k's. Has I think, a 6 litre V8 donk. Very thirsty but goes like the clappers.
And I will reiterate, the Hummer is not "brought in" by Holden.
The Hummer is a GM Corporation import, just like the Saab is.
I suspect GM wish to maintain the individual Hummer marque, rather than "absorb" it under the Holden badge umbrella.
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Reply By: F4Phantom - Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:49
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:49
I cant tell if your joking about capability or not because these things are not hummers, they are marketing excercises to sell an image (I suppose most cars are!) they are a hummer looking shell dumped on an exsisting yank car I think a tahoe or something. Check youtube to see just how capable they are, or they arent and also how easy they break.
A real hummer is a hummer, these are girls cars.
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Follow Up By: ben_gv3 - Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 11:43
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 11:43
F4, what your'e thinking of is the H2. It's built onto the Tahoe frame.
Not sure about the H3 though.
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Follow Up By: Crackles - Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 22:52
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 22:52
Yes the H3 is nothing like it's bigger cousins and certainly not ideal for an Aussie car. Torsion bars in the front & old world leafs in the rear will have the car scrambling for traction
well before the others. Despite its large size it somehow loses all its storage space & with a poor driver position and a small fuel tank, would not be the car of choice for central Oz. In fact with a payload of only 409 kg, by the time you pick up the kids from school & throw the groceries in the back it will nearly be overloaded, and lets be honest that's exactly what it's designed to do, stand out in a crowd around town :-))
Cheers Craig.............
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Reply By: On Patrol (Aust.) - Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 13:11
Friday, Nov 23, 2007 at 13:11
G'day all
I never ceases to amaze me how dynamic a language can be and how it changes form.
IE The word Gay used to mean happy.
Ho Ho Ho was what Santa said but now Ho its an Americanism for a lady of the night.
And "A Hummer" was something a couple did in the privacy of the bedroom, now men want drive one around.
Amazing is it not!!!!
I used to like Hummers but now I'm not so sure.
Colin.
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Reply By: Member - Oldbaz. NSW. - Saturday, Nov 24, 2007 at 08:37
Saturday, Nov 24, 2007 at 08:37
Read an article this week that likened driving the H3 to looking
out through a letterbox. Vision not a long suit apparently. Got
left behind in the rough by 76 Wagon & Rubicon...oldbaz.
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