What do y'all think of the "Big Race" commercial

[ItsaJeepThing95]

I'm not saying that this commercial necessarily gives current or prospective H2 owners the idea that this stuff is okay. If you can afford an H2, you make way more cash than I do, therefore must have a pretty good job, and be halfway intelligent at least. Of course there are exceptions to the rule, but we'll leave that out.

And Dennis, while I understand where you're coming from with the cement comment in a way, it is totally irrelevant to the issue I have with this commercial. In the commercial they drove down a pre-existing paved road that appeared to be in rich suburbia. If you could get a cement truck ANYWHERE NEAR the trails that I love to make an attempt to pave them, it would be a miracle. But getting someone who has been influenced by an irresponsible advertising campaign (remember, it's not just the H2 commercials I have issue with) and them destroying our beautiful trails and country side happens all the time. I'll post back here in a few minutes with some examples of trail damage done by people who don't know how to stay on the existing trail so you guys can HOPEFULLY figure out what I'm talking about. The trails I run are not in the local farmer's field, they are high up in the rocky mountains, in beautiful, pristine places that should be left unharmed. And don't try to give me crap about the trail itself is harming nature, the Forest Service put these roads in long ago for access to the best parts of my wonderful state.

[ItsaJeepThing95]

I'm with Alec on this one. It shows irresponsible off-road travel and gives the impression that it's okay. I can't seem to find it for the life of me right now but there was a thread on automags.com about some lady in an H2 bonzai driving through some college campus because she "saw it in the commercial." Not sure on the validity of it since it is now gone, but we have many irresponsible arseholes out here in CO that see this kind of crap in commercials and think its okay. The switchbacks we have in CO are usually VERY fragile and on very steep terrain, so ANY shortcutting of them at all leads to horrendous erosion. While this may not be a problem in many parts of the country (although maybe it should be a problem) it CERTAINLY is an issue here in Colorado and we take it very seriously.

[DennisAJC]

OK! You wanna know what I really think!?!?!?!

I love CHER! OK! I love her!

I'm so glad she dumped that ski bum loser Sunny...He's so smugg.

He ain't heavy.....
He's ma HUMMER baby!
03 NUDE Pewter Lux H2
03 Dressed Range Rover

[RMST]

Why would someone be intimidated by a truck? I love that people are so self-centered that they feel that I made a personal decision based on my desire to make them feel a certain way. Give me a break. The H2 is a great looking truck. It is also fun to drive. End of story.

[dostacos]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Alec W:
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Patriot, I know where you are coming from and I too agree it’s supposed to be funny, but in reality there is nothing funny about tearing up trails by not following them. There are a lot of trails in Colorado with switchbacks; there are some people that “make” little short cuts like that for a little more challenge. That's what gets trails closed and that’s why I now don't think it’s appropriate. I am no angel, I have (through ignorance) broken the rules, as I get more experienced (and addicted) I am learning about responsible wheeling. I think the manufactures of 4x4 vehicles should do the same thing.

Maybe it’s a Colorado thing and that’s why we are so lucky to have so many trails to run.
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Not just colorado, California too.
the problem is the tofu eating electric car loving commercial writers would not have THOUGHT about having the kid follow an off road TRAIL.

I don't drive a H2, but I find that commmercial better than 99% of the dreck out there.


did you also notice that the hummer kid has the GIRL?

[DennisAJC]

Everyone has their opinion. There are many messages into this. But bottom line, it's a fun commercial. Intelligent adults on this Forum aren't the "Monkey see, Monkey do types".
That's why we can afford these things.

Growing up to Bugs Bunny, Road Runner, Spider Man.... They have many misleading messages too.

Lighten Up

He ain't heavy.....
He's ma HUMMER baby!
03 NUDE Pewter Lux H2
03 Dressed Range Rover

[hotmeds]

I belive at the start of the commercial the poster says "First one down the hill or to the finish line".

git h2 edgeimakated

[Buckeye Hummer]

I don't think the cardboard H2 has any emissions so it should be ok I bet some of those kids who lost the race become future ELF's. What do you think?

[ItsaJeepThing95]

First example I could find. This guy proceeded to get pissed off when a responsible wheeler mentioned that he was traveling off the trail. I wasn't there, but it apparently came close to blows over this guy wheeling out of bounds. And you can tell he's not the first guy to go through there.

[DennisAJC]

Too much caffeine

He ain't heavy.....
He's ma HUMMER baby!
03 NUDE Pewter Lux H2
03 Dressed Range Rover

[DennisAJC]

Alec,

You are definately not a Troll. Respected member of the Forum. But hey!

A simple, innocent, fun commercial like this with all the extreme smutt out there, you rain on it like it was UNPRECIDENTED material???
Makes you look like some religious fanatic.

Your flame proof vest must be made of nylon.

A little dissappointed in you since I do follow your posts. But don't expect everyone to blow sunshine up your butt.

And I like Doritos, not chips.

He ain't heavy.....
He's ma HUMMER baby!
03 NUDE Pewter Lux H2
03 Dressed Range Rover

Hope there is no dip for those chips



"It's what you learn, after you know it all, that counts - John Wooden

[DIANE]

I loved it! The only drawback for me is that my two children have put it on their Christmas list (they started their list very early this year).

[ItsaJeepThing95]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Alec W:
There is zero point in continuing this thread Dennis.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Ditto.


One last thing though Dennis, if you consider me to be one of "those" people as you refer to them, f off.

[Drag]

I gotta say, I never expected this poll to elicit feelings like these on this board. Having said that, I agree with Detonate
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>I really don't even see the comparison in the commercial to real life. I mean we have a cardboard box driven by a kid in a neighborhood to a Man in 6,500 lbs vehicle in the mountains.
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I don't think that this ad really teaches irresponsible offroading, but I also don't see how it encourages RESPONSIBLEoffroading either. Is it the place of Hummer or GM to encouage responsible offroad behavior in their ads? I don't see that as the case. I see that GM provides the vehicle, and we as owners (OK, I'm not a Hummer owner yet, but I do own cars) are responsible for our actions after we purchase the vehicle. Remember, we did have a choice in what we bought, unlike in communist country where they had to buy whatever brand the state provided.

It is also our responsibility as responsible offroad drivers to teach trail ettiquite to those less experienced and to those who use the trails badly. I have reported people to the game warden when I see them keeping fish in a catch and release stream, and I royally chewed out a guy that I caught jacklighting deer before I had the Fish and Game cops come get him. I don't do that because of Winchester's advertising, but because of outdoorsman ettiquite that I learned when I was a kid.

Ok, no more soap box time from me. Next!

Corvette= "The ability to pass with class"

[SONA]

I agree with Patriot, there is way to much sensitivity and over reaction.... stinks of being PC. I hate PC. If anyone thinks that a kid driving a toy H2 across the grass is sending some kind of subliminal message they are thinking way to much and need to stop! It is just kids being kids. There is no problem with showing that the H2 is and always will be the Off-Road King of the Hill. The Greeny's can KMA.

"Life is tough... tougher if you’re stupid." "Just think, right now, all over the world there are people exercising bad judgment. Somebody, right this minute, is probably making the mistake of his life

[argonaut]

Doritos? Not porn and tissue...

'03 H2 Sunset Orange No mods
'03 BMW M3 Convertible
'02 BMW M5

[ItsaJeepThing95]

Personally, I don't believe that people who do not participate in any OHV activities can even see my point of view on this issue. You don't understand how special these trails are to us that keep getting closed down, or the joy we feel when taking our vehicles responsibly down these trails. This particular commercial isn't the first one to piss me off on this subject. There was a Honda one where they came up on a tunnel that the vehicle couldn't pass through because they had a couple bikes on top, so instead of taking the bikes down from the rack to get the vehicle through, they blaze their own trail acround the tunnel through fragile mountain vegetation. The hook like on the commercial was "create your own shortcut" or something to that effect. These commercials give the newbie off-roader the impression that this stuff is okay, and it takes a while before someone observes them doing this and corrects it. A lot of damage can be done in that time. I guess it's an off-road thing, most of you wouldn't understand.

[argonaut]

I agree with detonate on this one. It's just a commercial. People who see something on TV and think it is real like that and go out and do it need to be shot. It's just a bloody commercial. People that are lacking in common sense enough to trashing trails because they saw a kid in a cardboard car do it have to be extremely rare. Are you guys that think this commercial leads to irresponsible offroading the same people that think the TV images and video games are why kids shoot up schools and commit other violent crimes? It's bad parenting, not those images. If an offroader goes in a mud bog instead of the trail, it's because he wasn't taught better, not because he saw a Hummer or Jeep or Honda commercial. I tried to stay out of this, but it is just getting absurd. I think Dennis went a bit far, but oh well, it's Dennis, he does that. Especially to trolls. Like Moojoobir

'03 H2 Sunset Orange No mods
'03 BMW M3 Convertible
'02 BMW M5

[DennisAJC]

Alec,

It's just an opinion, most of the time I just get carried away and talk ****. Just an opinion. I enjoy the commercial but I am reasonably educated enough (or chicken) not to do that sort of thing in real life...COMMON SENSE. I honestly think my kids will not be mislead since they get too much love and attention than any...ANY T.V. commercial or program.

I respected and enjoyed your posts ever since I joined, and I still respect and enjoy them now. I understand and agree with most of your points but it's just a commercial. If you are in that frame of mind, then I can point out 90% of the programs/commercials on T.V. all have negative messages.

He ain't heavy.....
He's ma HUMMER baby!
03 NUDE Pewter Lux H2
03 Dressed Range Rover