H2 Magazine Reviews!!

[SUVGuy]

This is a quote from Car and Driver magazine: "I loved it [the H2] in photos. Then I saw a real one in the, uh, well, "flesh" is not the right word. I saw it in the plastic. Those cake-pan bumps on the hood? Plastic. You can pop 'em off with your fingers. Those black extenders on the ends of the front bumper? Tupperware tuff for those brutal commutes! Inside, the window sills are high. You look at the world through slits. For the first time ever, you see door-sealing rubber being used as a styling element. The message is "functional," get it? Ten man-size socketheads make a big show of securing wispy plastic cladding to the dash."

A quote from Motor Trend Magazine: "The H2 is big, weighty, expensive, and thirsty. (And it needed a shift into low range to finish a hill climb the Volvo's high-tech AWD scrambled up without drama.)"

-Imagine off-roading in your H2 and getting stuck going up a hill and then passed by a soccer mom in a Volvo X90. How embarrassing!

[H2_SUT_SC]

The only thing I found on the net with those quotes was his own when he did a "review" of the H2.

http://www.carreview.com/SUV/Hummer,...4_1524crx.aspx

[DRTYFN]

I just read the first 10 reviews and I have to say that I now feel like we should close the borders and start mandatory sterilization of everyone with IQ's under 100. That's the most pathetic collection of idiocy that I've ever seen. Even the supporters(hopefully non-owners) are dumb as a box of hammers.

SUVGuy, I've noticed that you've conveniently left off a signature line telling us all what you drive. Could that be because walking in Birkenstocks isn't considered driving?

[SUVGuy]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>The MT article you referenced seemed to be refering to the everyday driver of SUV's: the soccer mom. I would love to read the entire article. Just post a link please. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Weren't you paying attention? There are no links to the articles I was referncing. They were only in the magazines and not posted to their websites. Go back and review the scans I posted.

[SUVGuy]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by H2_SUT_SC:
The only thing I found on the net with those quotes was his own when he did a "review" of the H2.

http://www.carreview.com/SUV/Hummer,...4_1524crx.aspx <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Why are you guys still trying to find the quotes on the web. I already told you that they are not posted to their websites. I scanned the articles in for you all to read. If you have the issues you can read them for yourself.

I didn't write that review, but I do agree with it wholeheatedly. It inspired me to post here.

[Dan]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SUVGuy:
Hello? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

[SUVGuy]

Hello?

[Klaus]

SUVGuy is proof that using the welfare system to deny Darwin his rewards is allowing too many nuts to survive in this country.

[devilsfan]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SUVGuy:
I didn't write that review, but I do agree with it wholeheatedly. It inspired me to post here. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Give it up already. No one here cares what your opinion is.

Stacy

[SUVGuy]

I'm guessing that since all the insults have dried up that you all found the articles that I quoted.

[SUVGuy]

"The H2 is a great all round performer, sure you can find plenty of vehicles that can do what the H2 can off road, you can find plenty of vehicles that make better highway cruisers, and minvans are better for carting a big family around in, but show me one of them which does it all?"

My point exactly. You could buy 2 vehicles that do everything you mentioned much better, for the same price as one H2. Its like buying one pair of shoes that does everything from running to mountain climbing. You end up with a pair of shoes that does most things "ok" and nothing really well.

I don't care what you guys waste your money on. And I don't get enjoyment out of making people suffer. I just wanted to point out that you fell victim of a marketing play and chose an absurd vehicle.

[BlueTJCO]

for the record PARAGON, your the only H2 owner I've EVER insulted

[Spike]

You mean lying about quotes in magazines right dickhead?

S&B Member

[SJ]

SUVGuy:

Until you answer DRTYFN's question, then shut the F up! You don't say where you're from and you don't say what you drive - nobody trusts your shady punk-ass. You're a parasite, otherwise you'd introduce yourself proper.

You drive a Jap SUV don't you? Prove me wrong and tell us you drive a Ford F-150 and you're really a good ol' boy. Yeah right! You walk, talk, and sound like a sell-out.

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'03 H2 [Sold]
'03 Chevrolet Silverado Z71, 6" Rancho Lift, Rear Factory Locker, 35" ProComp MTs

[ShaggyX]

Where??? I dont see anything.

[devilsfan]

Great article. I'd love to post it on the window of every Prius or Civic stuck in a snowbank in the Northeast right now.

Stacy

[BlueTJCO]

Not too piss anyone off, but both Shaggy's thread and SUVGUY's thread make you all sound like a bunch of highschool kids sitting around the Varsity locker room. Too much mouth and testosterone for what it's worth...JMO!

[DennisAJC]

No, mabye it's not fake. I do remember reading something similar in Hustler.

" S & B Member Since 2003 "

[Klaus]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SUVGuy:
This is a quote from Car and Driver magazine <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Brock Yates

The era of pea-pod cars may be over.
By Brock Yates
Car and Driver July 2004



For those of you having the fortitude (or poor judgment) to continue reading this blather more than once, you may recall that several months ago I admitted to the purchase of a Hummer H2, perhaps the most politically incorrect motor vehicle to ply American highways since Al Capone’s armored Cadillac. Of course, I expected my friends in the granola crowd to sneer openly, claiming I was defiling the environment while lining the pockets of the very same mullahs who are trying to blow us into small bits. My feeble defense is based on the need of a vehicle that will plow through upstate New York winters and haul my Eliminator hot rods and two dogs that are roughly the size of Shetland ponies. This cuts me no slack with the Kerryites and the Nader raiders, all of whom consider any passenger car larger than a Toyota Echo akin to a Euclid earthmover.

But having driven the great whale around for the past couple of months, I am staggered at the general response, leaving me to puzzle over exactly how Americans are involved in the so-called automotive culture of the nation.

The question was first posed on a stretch of interstate as my wife, Pamela, and I were trundling along in the right lane at a steady 75 mph (a velocity, by the way, at which the H2 is amazingly silent, stable, and comfortable—provided one ignores the gallon of regular being swallowed every 12 miles).

On my left I spotted a ragged Chevrolet station wagon that drew alongside. A girl in her 20s in the passenger seat was frantically scribbling on a hunk of cardboard with her lipstick. She held up a sign that read, “You’re hot!” I had to presume she was referring to the H2 and not to me, as I’m old enough to be her great-uncle.

Several days later, while heading east on Interstate 90, another car cruised beside me as the driver leaned to his right and tossed me a thumbs up. This did not surprise me, as I had seen the same signals from other drivers.

But the source of my amazement centered on the car he was driving—a Honda Insight! This is, with the Toyota Prius, the most politically correct automobile on the planet. Making sure his gesture did not involve a middle finger, which it did not, I was left to ruminate why, in the name of OPEC, anyone wheeling a tiny gas-sipping, primo-P.C. hybrid like an Insight would give me the thumbs up. A frustrated Kenworth driver? A drugged-up whacko who thought he’d spotted a rapper’s Slade?

To this day I remain baffled by the gesture, except to note that the H2 has been the source of more reaction than any other vehicle I’ve driven since the insane Lamborghini LM002 (“The Rambo Lambo,” C/D, October 1987) terrorized the roads. Most of it has been favorable, save for an encounter with a middle-aged suburbanite leaving a Rochester supermarket with his small son. As the little boy walked behind the H2, he asked, “Daddy, what’s that?”

Heading for a Subaru wagon nearby, the father sneered, “It’s big, it’s ugly, and it’s a gas guzzler.”

That is the only overt assault on the H2 that I have witnessed, and it was in direct opposition to the almost totally positive reaction to the vehicle. The impact the big ugly gas guzzler has on the general public has been a shocker. Over the decades I have frittered away endless hours motoring around in multitudes of cars and trucks, most of which have faded into my memory bank, and only a handful of vehicles have elicited a similar response.

The first was a Mercedes-Benz 600, the stunning leviathan sedan that the Stuttgart firm launched in 1964, powered by a lusty 6.3-liter DOHC V-8. Our test car, a short-wheelbase version, was, for all its weight and size, capable of running with the fastest sports cars of the day while leaving gape-jawed spectators in its wake. I recall a drunken tear down Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue with Carroll Shelby and other misfits after a smoky burnout from the portico of the posh Plaza Hotel following a black-tie dinner, proving once again that the barbarians are never far from seizing civilization.

So, too, for the first 930 Porsche that fell into my hands in 1975. That little maverick, complete with its vivid whale-tail spoiler, was a cranky beast, its turbo capable of suddenly, without warning, jacking up power to a point where the omnipresent oversteer could turn the little coupe into a whirling dervish. But it was a machine I truly loved driving.

Of course, my favorite long-hauler of all time was the Ferrari Daytona that Dan Gurney and I drove to victory in the 1971 Cannonball, crossing the nation in less than a day and a half. That fabulous old warrior, now in the hands of Seattle collector and vintage racer Bruce McCaw, captivated like no other. Its vast range of torque produced amazing performance. I recall a race with a guy in a Pontiac GTO somewhere in Oklahoma. He was able to stay with me until about 100 mph, when the Ferrari seemed to gain a whole new life, surging to 150 mph while the victim in the GTO thought he’d been tied to a tree. That wonderful machine would top out at just a wink under 175 mph while being as docile as a Buick Electra.

In retrospect, the unique factor among all those machines, in addition to their vivid performance, was their styling. Each had a profile that was outrageous and outside the box. Like the H2 this offered an extra dimension to their appeal.

In this age of androgyny, wherein a Suzuki can be confused with a Toyota or a Saturn or a Honda, outré styling is playing an increasingly important role in sales. I think of the Mazda RX-8, the Mini Cooper, the Chevrolet SSR, the Audi TT, the Chrysler PT Cruiser convertible, the Honda Insight, and the Dodge Magnum wagon, among others, as breakout machines, not due necessarily to their performance or mechanical exotica, but rather because of their eye-arresting contours. So, too, for the H2, which, love it or despise it, refuses to be ignored. It transmits a message to all automakers that the era of pea-pod cars may be over.

We live in a world that is becoming increasingly bland, with clothing, food, music, and television developing an overlay of worldwide conformity. A street in Paris or Hong Kong is beginning to look like one in Malibu or Greenwich, Connecticut. If automakers are to survive in this world of excessive overcapacity (estimated by some experts to be as much as 30 percent), daredevil styling and design may be the only salvation. Including big ugly gas guzzlers.

http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id=27&article_id=8217&page_num ber=1

[ShaggyX]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mooncricket:
for the record PARAGON, your the only H2 owner I've EVER insulted<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I dont know if I believe that Ryan. I am sure you have called Alec and Adam dumbasses before. They probably deserved it, but it is still an insult towards an H2 owner.