We may not be able to give our Hummers away!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayof...uvs/index.html

 

Its ok it will be a collectors item!-lol

 

Right now the cost of selling your SUV way more than negates the additional cost of driving one. I don't understand the guys selling their SUVs because they need something that gets more MPG. If you take the big hit on your SUV it will take 20 years to get to break even. My wife and I are going to get in the Hummer and go eat breakfast now.

 

I agree with 3hummers. I was reading the other day (have to go find it, don't remember where it was) that the best MPG gain would be a Prius (stop, I didn't say it, just quoting ). BUT, they said even going with a Prius it would take 4 years to break even between the loss of money on the trade, the new payments, and MPG. Just not worth it IMO.

I wouldn't drive one of those things anyway. When I get into my sons Civic I feel like I'm in a deathtrap!

BTW: He just sold the Civic yesterday and bought a 96 Bonneville. Finally went American!! [sm=happy046.gif]
And he admited that I was right about the better power, more solid feeling, and feeling more safe.

 

My point was we are locked into our rides. To trade would be foolish as you would almost never recoop your losses from the trade, With that in mind I am changing my driving style. I now have a fresh egg under my foot and the gas pedal. 60-65 mph is my limit. These $80 fill ups are killing me.[:@]

 

This size rig is just who I am. My first car was a school bus yellow 1963 dodge 1/2 ton pickupI got for $300. It had a 318 and at the timehad less HP than theI-5 in the H3! I have been a truck and SUV man my whole life. In January the lease to my RAM 1500 quad-cab 4X4 was finally up, gotta love the Hemi, and I turned it in and bought a 2006 Mustang GT convertible. 0-60 in 4.9 seconds. kinda scarry at first, but it was fun! However I only lasted 3 months until I drove past the Auto dealer, spied the most beatiful sight in the world,and stopped and traded in my GT for my H3. Ahhhh... back in the saddle and at home again.I have to have something to tow my boat, and to do that and have a rig that will still get 19 MPG is ok in my book.I am lucky to have a steady, good paying job and the ability to afford the gas and have still to this day have not changed my driving habits due to gas prices. I will die drivng a 4X4. I tried to convert and just eneded up stimulating the economy for trying to be less dependednt on oil. I will drive a small car sometimes on a long trip to see family when necessary, but driving my H3puts me in a good mood every day! I do not turn a blind eye to the environment and the U.S.'s dependecy on gasoline, but we are a free nation with the ability to make our own choices, so if I want to spend $4 a gallon on gasoline, I can. There are many other ways to adress the already noted issues.

 

Costs $270.00 to fill up the Alpha with diesel. Costs about $220.00 to fill up the 97 and about $160.00 to fill up the F-250. Add in the H3 and the Vette and a round of fill ups for the garage pets runs about $850.00. My wife pulls a 4 horse trailer with the F-250 all over creation. She goes through three times the fuel that I do.

 

3hummers, Holy Cra@!!that goes to prove you are a dedicated Hummer fanatic. I am not sure if I would stretch that far...... Maybe there is a line for me.

 

Good point, why spend thousands of dollars to save hundreds. It doesn't make economic sense.

 

I think the only legitimate argument to this is that if everyone would be willing to spendthousands of dollars today to "upgrade" their car today to a more fuel efficient one, in fifteenyears from now we could be less dependendent on foreing oil. It is not about you saving money, but putting your money into helping theU.S. head in a postive direction. I am not saying I agree with this, but the economic sense may be only for our grand children.