What Made You Want A Hummer.....
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What Made You Want A Hummer.....
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We’ve always drove some type of 4x4. My wife a Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo and I believe that Jeep wrote the book on 4wheel drive, myself a huge Ford F350 Powerstroke 4x4 (8000#) that made a terrible off road truck! I always admired the Hummer but thought the H2 was too big and too expensive. I loved the H3 but thought was under powered until the Alpha came along.
The H3 is rugged looking, off road capable yet elegant enough to take out to dinner and user friendly enough to drive cross country in.
A few personal touches andmy H3 Alphawill be exactly the way I want it, until the H3T comes out of course.
The H3 is rugged looking, off road capable yet elegant enough to take out to dinner and user friendly enough to drive cross country in.
A few personal touches andmy H3 Alphawill be exactly the way I want it, until the H3T comes out of course.
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The reason we got an H2 was because my girlfriend wanted an SUV, "somthing big" she would always say. I lived a good distance away from work about 55 miles but a good 2 hour's drive, so I needed a commuter car and I got a 350Z. It wasn't bad having a fast little sports car when I was single but then I met my girlfriend, she would want to go out with friends but we always had to hitch a ride with them. I didn't mind because I was saving gas and miles. Things worked well until we bought our first house together and I couldn't even put a pillow in the back of the Z. She hated it and gave me crap about trading it in for a Tahoe/Yukon for at least a year. When I finally broke down and told her that we could trade it in, she told me that she no longer liked the Tahoe/Yukon cause they look too much like mini-vans now. She wanted a Hummer, it was big, it was solid and it looked nothing like a mini-van (that really came up a lot and I still haven't figured out why, not like I had dreams of driving an Astro van when she said she wanted something bigger). My mouth dropped a little bit, mainly because I was thinking of trading my 30 MPG car in for a 10 MPG Hummer? I moved closer to work but I wasn't planning on living closer to spend more time at the pump. Then she told me her plan of keeping the Z as our commuter car and the H2 for playing. So now we have these 2 cars in our garage, my Z is getting beaten up daily and our H2 will get beat up on weekends (too much stupid work to really have fun in it). We have taken it to the snow a couple times already this year and I'm waiting for my friend's ranch to dry up so we can go play where rules don't apply.
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The reason we got an H2 was because my girlfriend wanted an SUV, "somthing big" she would always say. I lived a good distance away from work about 55 miles but a good 2 hour's drive, so I needed a commuter car and I got a 350Z. It wasn't bad having a fast little sports car when I was single but then I met my girlfriend, she would want to go out with friends but we always had to hitch a ride with them. I didn't mind because I was saving gas and miles. Things worked well until we bought our first house together and I couldn't even put a pillow in the back of the Z. She hated it and gave me crap about trading it in for a Tahoe/Yukon for at least a year. When I finally broke down and told her that we could trade it in, she told me that she no longer liked the Tahoe/Yukon cause they look too much like mini-vans now. She wanted a Hummer, it was big, it was solid and it looked nothing like a mini-van (that really came up a lot and I still haven't figured out why, not like I had dreams of driving an Astro van when she said she wanted something bigger). My mouth dropped a little bit, mainly because I was thinking of trading my 30 MPG car in for a 10 MPG Hummer? I moved closer to work but I wasn't planning on living closer to spend more time at the pump. Then she told me her plan of keeping the Z as our commuter car and the H2 for playing. So now we have these 2 cars in our garage, my Z is getting beaten up daily and our H2 will get beat up on weekends (too much stupid work to really have fun in it). We have taken it to the snow a couple times already this year and I'm waiting for my friend's ranch to dry up so we can go play where rules don't apply.
The reason we got an H2 was because my girlfriend wanted an SUV, "somthing big" she would always say. I lived a good distance away from work about 55 miles but a good 2 hour's drive, so I needed a commuter car and I got a 350Z. It wasn't bad having a fast little sports car when I was single but then I met my girlfriend, she would want to go out with friends but we always had to hitch a ride with them. I didn't mind because I was saving gas and miles. Things worked well until we bought our first house together and I couldn't even put a pillow in the back of the Z. She hated it and gave me crap about trading it in for a Tahoe/Yukon for at least a year. When I finally broke down and told her that we could trade it in, she told me that she no longer liked the Tahoe/Yukon cause they look too much like mini-vans now. She wanted a Hummer, it was big, it was solid and it looked nothing like a mini-van (that really came up a lot and I still haven't figured out why, not like I had dreams of driving an Astro van when she said she wanted something bigger). My mouth dropped a little bit, mainly because I was thinking of trading my 30 MPG car in for a 10 MPG Hummer? I moved closer to work but I wasn't planning on living closer to spend more time at the pump. Then she told me her plan of keeping the Z as our commuter car and the H2 for playing. So now we have these 2 cars in our garage, my Z is getting beaten up daily and our H2 will get beat up on weekends (too much stupid work to really have fun in it). We have taken it to the snow a couple times already this year and I'm waiting for my friend's ranch to dry up so we can go play where rules don't apply.
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I had been looking at getting a Hummer for a couple of years. The introduction of the H3 made up my mind. My reasons:1) I like the feeling of being safe in it-especially during winters here in Michigan. While I respect ice, I don't have that "white knuckle" feeling I used to have when driving in snow. 2) I love the look of the vehicle 3) The off roading capability.
Speed is not an issue for me. If I feel "the need for speed", I hop in the wife's CTS and can rocket down the highways.....................
Speed is not an issue for me. If I feel "the need for speed", I hop in the wife's CTS and can rocket down the highways.....................
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Solarflare my wife drives the H3 and she does get more attention at the stables, gas station, grocery store, etc driving the H3 than she does in the F250 4x4. I thinkthe Hummerdoes have some man attracting powers.
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I bought an H3 because I always settled for a Jeep of some sort, and seemed to have alot of problems with them. No matter what, the Wrangler, the Grand Cherokee, Liberty, you name it I owned one or 2 of them. When I bought my 05 Wrangler (my third one) and the trans was acting horrible with only 3000 miles I dumped it, traded it in for the one vehicle I always wanted but never bought and that was a Hummer. So now I own it, along with a Prius and you can imagine the looks my home gets when people pass walking their dogs. It is the perfect combination for me.[:@]
I love the H3 -not just the problem of the cylinder head I am now dealing with. Which led me to this forum. I liked that it is not really that much bigger than the Jeeps, and it rides so much nicer, and just is a hot vehicle. Lots of people want them, but they don't get them. But I did.
I love the H3 -not just the problem of the cylinder head I am now dealing with. Which led me to this forum. I liked that it is not really that much bigger than the Jeeps, and it rides so much nicer, and just is a hot vehicle. Lots of people want them, but they don't get them. But I did.
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Seadoo, I have had all types of 4x4 vehicles. Liked almost all of them but you are right, the Hummer is different. I really enjoy driving my Hummers and while I liked my other 4x4s I did not feel the same way about driving them that I do the Hummer.