For years, Hummers - each one somehow more massive and more polluting than the next - were the easiest target in the automotive world for environmentalists . Need examples? How about this and this and this and, oh, you get the picture.
General Motors has been trying to sell the brand to Tengzhong, a Chinese company, but announced yesterday that this will not happen. GM said that it is still listening to offers for the brand, but it’s looking likely that Hummer isn’t long for this world. To mark the news, we wanted to have a moment of silence for this tribute to the excesses of the 1990s and Naughts and the military mindset of the drivers bold enough to get behind the wheel, even the ones who think driving a Hummer is “a highly moral consumption choice.”
There, that’s long enough.
Don’t worry, Hummer haters. These automobiles will be on the road for years to come and, when they’re all gone, attention can turn to other gas guzzling monsters, like this year’s thirsty champion the Ford F-250 Lariat.
[Source: GM]
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