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Aussiejeff

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The Hummer is dead....

I seem to remember a few were purchased recently by the police for Melbourne crowd control duties.

Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Co. said it will close Hummer, the maker of military-inspired sport-utility vehicles, after Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co. couldn’t win Chinese approval to buy the unit.

Winding down the brand will take several months, Nick Richards, a spokesman, said yesterday. Some of the 3,000 people now employed at Hummer work on other vehicles, so GM doesn’t know how many jobs will be lost, Richards said.
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U.S. deliveries for Hummer peaked at 71,524 in 2006, according to Autodata Corp., an industry researcher based in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. Last year’s total was 9,046.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a89A2vcAkjuY&pos=4

The US military have ordered 1,000's of alternative mine & IED resistant replacement vehicles for Iraq & Afghanistan, such as this badass Cougar - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar_(vehicle) and love this pic from Afghanistan....err Tattooine? "Use the force, Luke..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Operacja_Passage_Afganistan.jpg

Now THAT is a vehicle to strike fear into an unruly mob! :D
 
Aussiejeff said:
The Hummer is dead....
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That is no loss, particularly in relation to city usage.

I read some time back that the Hummer was classified as a farm vehicle in some US states and the purchaser was able to get some tax incentives for buying it, even if it was never going to be used on a farm.
 
How the hell are we going to stop global cooling without the Hummer?
:cool:
 
wayneL said:
How the hell are we going to stop global cooling without the Hummer?
:cool:
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With these, Aussie built too :D

800px-Dutch_Bushmaster_with_remote_turret_2008.jpg


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmaster_Infantry_Mobility_Vehicle
 
bellenuit said:
That is no loss, particularly in relation to city usage.

I read some time back that the Hummer was classified as a farm vehicle in some US states and the purchaser was able to get some tax incentives for buying it, even if it was never going to be used on a farm.
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What a dopey vehicle, however I have to admit that when I was in the States two years + ago for eight weeks, I came across people with whom I would be hardly surprised to find that they would get the greatest thrill to this particular form of transport full of sheep, goats and calves.

And they`d never stop laughing through their single front tooth.:D
 
In 50 years, with oil at $1000 a barrel in real terms, only the rich will have cars. Public transport for the rest of us. Economy will contract due to cost to ship goods around the world.

perhaps?
 
gooner said:
In 50 years, with oil at $1000 a barrel in real terms, only the rich will have cars. Public transport for the rest of us. Economy will contract due to cost to ship goods around the world.

perhaps?
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I'm sure they'll have those teleporter thingos by then.
 
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