Posted on 07/11/2008 4:04:11 AM PDT by Apollo 13
GM accountants...........
The attack on the H2 is just an attack on what liberals see as American gluttonous.
I can't wait to buy one in the near future when the prices get in my range. They are reliable and one of the coolest looking SUV's around.
Every time I read or see crap like this it reminds of a show where a person was interviewing a singer named Moby. He looked like he was an AIDS patient and I have no idea what he sings but his house was monstrous with beautiful wood throughout but there was nothing in it. He was touting himself as a minimalist. What a jackass.
Yeah.
Couldn’t they just say it’s a crappy SUV that’s just a rebranded Chevy truck platform?
Time and Newsweak are for the feeble minded.
Hey now ... we had a Vega. Dad bought it in 73 and we still had it (and it was running well) up into the early 80s.
Wow.
I had a friend ,circa 1957, that had a Renault Dauphine.
He supercharged it to keep up w/ Volkswagens.
I’m dead serious.
The topic on the talk radio show was “The worst mistakes you’ve made in your life.”
The caller said, “I’ve made two. I sold the family farm and I bought my wife a Puegeot.”
How did the Plymouth Cricket not make the list. It was by and far the worst piece of crap ever sold. As a combination Plymouth/British Leyland vehicle the suspension was crap, the electrical regulation system was worse and parts were extremely hard to get and very expensive. Even Plymouth dealers quickly stopped stocking the parts. I bought it new in 71 and it was the worst experience ever.
On the other hand I bought a 72 (admittedly a piece of crap) Vega in 1985 and used it to drive to work on base where I was stationed at the time. I didn’t have to pay a lot for it, only had the driver side door fall off and had to replace the timing belt. Drove it for four years and then sold it for $100 to somebody as a project car for their teenager when I PCS’d. It was more reliable and better than the Cricket.
My personal driving philosophy is this: If I can’t see over it, around it, or through it, I DON’T want to be BEHIND it. I could care less about someone’s Hummer, Escalade, etc., just let me see the road in front of me. Not your big, fat tailgate. It’s especialy bad at low sun angles when the sun is reflected off the rear windows and tail gates. It’s blinding.
The Left never rests. They wake up every morning believing they are saving the World.
I am reminded of a purportedly true story. In the 1920’s, a “sociologist” (sociology was new back then) was doing a study of living conditions in rural America. He was interviewing one woman in her home, which he duly noted had no bathtub. He mentioned that to the woman, who acknowledged that was so.
“You have no bathtub”, he said, “but you have an automobile. Why is that?”
“Because I can’t go to town in a bathtub.”
Then again, I actually owned a Yugo, so my sense of humor may have a touch of insanity about it.
You're absolutely correct. The Bronco had been around for years, but it was the the Toyota 4Runner (1984) and the Nissan Pathfinder (1986) that really kickstarted the SUV craze. These were the first SUVs with car-like interior options. Ford's answer, the Ranger-based Explorer, didn't make the scene until 1991.
I had a ‘74 Vega - the GT model with the 2-bbl carb instead of the 1-bbl. The thing smoked like a brushfire, but somehow always managed to pass the smog check. What a POS that thing was.
When I was growing up, my family at various times owned a Renault Dauphin, Simca Special, and a couple of those Mercuries with the inward slanting back window. I learned to shift gears in that Simca.
In my liberal youth, I once owned an AMC Gremlin (a purple one, no less!), a rotary Mazda, and a Chevy Citation.
But, my husband and I have recovered nicely from our youthful car idiocy and now own 2 big SUVs and a truck.
some funny stuff. I hoped none of my mistakes were on there, but fortunately these are REAL stinkers.
Pugeot 504. I had the misfortune to own one of these. French engineering at it’s absolute worst.
I think SUV’s came about because government regulation killed the station wagon.
Anybody know what kind of gas milage a 37 ford would get today. It’s an original, but rebuilt to todays standards with a couple of extras thrown in.
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