America's immediate response to September 11 was slapping flag stickers on SUVs and buying Hummers.
You already see the effects in terms of sales of big Hummers and large SUVs.
Not too long ago, we were all the Joneses buying jacuzzis and Hummers and stocks on credit.
While we sit astride our Hummers a guy paddles up on the surfboard equivalent of a Tesla Roadster.
Look, if you tell a company that there are no mileage standards on cars, then people end up making Hummers.
Through September, GM has sold only 8, 193 Hummers in the U.S. this year, down 64 percent from the same period last year.
In September, only 426 Hummers were sold nationwide, according to Autodata Corp.
In 2008, GM sold 27, 485 Hummers, down from 35, 000 in 2003.
And everybody drives Hummers until finally gas gets so crazy and at a certain point people start saying maybe I should get a more fuel-efficient car.
That means that large SUVs like Hummers and Expeditions wouldn't have to meet the same mileage standard as smaller light trucks such as a Jeep or Explorer.
In 2005 GM officials took Bay out to a secret design center in the San Fernando Valley to offer him a smorgasbord of 100 Chevrolets, Pontiacs, Hummers and Cadillacs.
"I actually go to war, when I go to war, " says 50, noting that he drives around New York in the same bulletproof Hummers that the troops use in Iraq.
Davis surmises that Caldwell, sitting up the road in his house, saw the Hummers and sicced his boss, Karen Immergut, the U.S. Attorney for Portland, onto Wiederhorn's attorney, Marc Blackman.
One thing seems obvious: we expect to see more crashes from the silent, ultra-low-profile Tesla street-racer as it attempts to compete for space on roads dominated by SUVs, Hummers, and Testosterone.
That's about the same as putting an extra two million Hummers on the road, or to put it another way, it cancels out all the gas saved by Priuses and other hybrids 30 times over.
Regardless of which path GM takes, owners of existing HUMMERs can rest assured that their vehicles will continue to be covered under warranty, and that parts will remain available through other GM brand dealerships for years.
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