For an uncomfortable time there it looked like General Motors were going to sell off the production of its Hummer line of automotive monstrosities to Heavy Industrial Machines, a Chinese corporation.
Happily the deal fell through, and GM is now in the process of winding down production of the most anti-social ‘car’ ever known.
Some factoids about the soon-to-be-deceased Hummer (stats for the H2 model):
- Around 10mpg (imperial), (source)
- A drag coefficient similar to a small truck
- The only vehicle that I know of that has a website dedicated to making rude gestures at it
- Weighs nearly four metric tonnes (giving a kinetic energy guaranteed to destroy most things that come in its way, including pedestrians, drivers of normal cars, etc.)
The first nail in the SUVs coffin. Goodbye Hummer.
Image from here.
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