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But not as hard as Pontiac L!OL!

14 hours ago, oldshurst442 said:

GM did no such thing with the H2.  If fact, it was the opposite of what you say.  

Riding on the coattails  on Ahnold's H1 civilian version and with the start of the SUV craze in the early 19990s and on Lincoln's Navigator, GM purchased the rights to HUMMER and listened to what folk said  that went batshyte for the H1 so GM created the H2.  (The 1st gen Escalade was already done and the 1st gen Escalade is where you could take your idiotic rhetoric and be correct) The H2 was not underwhelming.   It was EVERYTHING a HUMMER buyer EVER wanted in his HUMMER purchase.  If you do not know what those criteria were...then YOU might be the problem...

The H2 was NEVER about luxury. The H2 was BRILLIANTLY recreated to EMULATE the H1...just to give you a hint.

So much so, that IMMEDIATELY there after, the most sought after SUV WAS the H2. Then the 2nd gen Escalade came along as the 1st gen was a patch job in missing the market and GM just like that, had a 1-2 punch with a blink of an eye that dominated  EVERY OTHER automaker that built and sold top dog SUVs...

So much so that HUMMER's product line IMMEDIATELY broke open with many many many products down the pipe line.

HUMMER died...but not because of how your twisted mind works against GM and HUMMER...

If you do not comprehend that, or you simply refuse to acknowledge, then YOU might just be the problem...

okay

gm obliterated hummer’s name with the idiotic underwhelming H2 and cultivated a market of balding, compensating sadmen in the process... and they think it’s going to attract electric buyers?

lol okay 

for a rental I got a Mitsubishi Outlander Sport (RVR in Canada) with about 200 miles on the odo.
 

the target buyer is your weird aunt who always called herself ‘the fun aunt’ when you were 11 because she’s 44 but says she looks 41, unmarried, says words like ‘groovy’ , funky’ and ‘kiddo’ and always takes you to applebees for appy hour for some belated birthdate you had a week and a half ago.

the aunt whose name your mom would slowly sigh out after hanging up another phone call where the subjects shifted between dried ovaries, outdated match.com profile photos, gravity’s toll and questioning why that nice boy way back in grade 12 never called again, while your dad sat at the kitchen table staring stone faced at the newspaper knowing if he made one smart remark, he’d be hit with it.

she was on a tuesday evening date with a divorced 47-year old beergut named richie who drives the shuttle for an automall, and the sales manager at the mitsu dealer promised richie a $100 gift card to montana’s for each successful referral. your aunt jumped at the chance for a second date to ride richie’s short bus around the dealerships all day.

unfortunately, richie interpreted ‘ride richie’s short bus’ incorrectly on the second date, so your aunt was promptly dropped off in front of a shiny Mitsubishi Outlander Sport.

she loved how ‘it looks like a little truck’ and couldn’t believe the giant sunroof. a sales rep upon seeing an actual person on the lot, thought she was lost

opening the door, the old navy yoga pants on aunt’s diminishing derrière slid onto the cheap, plasticky leather seating, her chunky jewelry-laden hands running along hard, hollow, textured plastics, leaving fingerprints on the sparse piano black plastic accents. 

‘ooooh i can fit all my girlfriends in this for a road trip’ exclaimed your aunt to the sales rep, who silently doubted the plural in girlfriends as he looked at the decent interior space that welcomed nobody. 

as if by magic, the radio is tuned to 95.9 SPLASH FM, ‘WITH TRIX AND THE CHIX,‘ and shania is belting out on speakers tinnier than the discman headphones you had when she was popular.

unable to see over the exaggerated hood and rear quarter panels, your aunt doesn’t care because the outlander allegedly has four wheel drive, so even snow won’t stop her from safely getting to her administrative job at the caster wheel wholesaler.

in just a few short hours, the young finance guy who politely yet deftly ignored any ‘is there a missus todd?’ questions has put your aunt in the outlander for 72 months at just a little over $100 a week.

now your aunt has plenty of hatchback to put bumper stickers like ‘I got crabs in Maryland’ and ‘Caution: Blonde Driving,’ and you’ll appreciate the last one because the mitsu’s handling isn’t good and feels disconnected from the road.

the cvt makes the engine seem lazy, devoid of pep and drive.

like your aunt, the mitsubishi outlander sport just... exists. it pleases no one even if it’s trying and it makes you feel bad.

sucks to be the 13 people who bought the 2019 models

this genius idea brought to you by the same people who think newton metres is a viable branding scheme

2 hours ago, smk4565 said:

Shouldn’t they offer $3k to anyone?  Rather than just Mustang owners which I assume are less than 1% of the total car buying population.

it’s like GM has major blind spots when it comes to marketing the camaro.

gas is roughly $4.50 a gallon (USD) where i am and that hasn’t stopped people from buying trucks and suv’s

if some new balance-wearing beer gut waddles into a dealership to pay over MSRP so he can slide his XXL cargo shorts into a corvette before everyone else at the old country buffet, that’s his business and dealerships should absolutely capitalize on his idiocy.

considering the coming electric cooper has unimpressive range and BMW has no clue on how to electrify, this doesn’t bode well

3 hours ago, smk4565 said:

I make over $70 per day, maybe I can buy the factory.

wait for it to be on the auction block for a buck.

wow those figures are redder than my pee

6 hours ago, Potluck said:

Because they want to text and drive. 

amateurs. i learned to text and drive with a manual just fine. 

to be honest, i’m an electric vehicle owner and even i am sick of reading about electric vehicles being inserted into every thread especially since they are inferior to mine and tesla’s in general 

i once used a bike pump to induce farts and popped my inner tube 

the only mini things here are the range and predicted sales

On 7/4/2019 at 8:01 PM, balthazar said:

I just have zero interest in my steering wheel, pedals and seat vibrating, buzzing, tweeting, back pressuring constantly.

if that's a constant occurrence, maybe you need the driving aids

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who is objectively, sanely, rationally, lucidly thinking that this is somehow better?

the taco’s face is inoffensive compared to the garish trash that’s lurching out of gmc’s factories and into third place sales

which nobody will buy because it’ll be more expensive than a WRX STI, less reliable than a Type R, not practical compared to a Veloster N, and too boy racery versus a Golf R.