Feds target SUV, truck size to save pedestrian lives — ‘one of the last frontiers of vehicle safety’

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Feds target SUV, truck size to save pedestrian lives — ‘one of the last frontiers of vehicle safety’
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Astounding. Hummer H2 beating the Sierra by 3m is incredible. A truck designed almost exclusively to express how selfish you are and it has better viability.

This chart is eye-opening...I always thought Hummers were made by...Hummer...

GM marketing. They purchased the hummer brand from AM General. OG Hummer (later renamed H1) was based on AM General's military Humvee design, but released to the civilian market. H2 and H3 were designed by GM for mass marketing. Can be seen in the price. H1 nearly 10x more than H2 and H3.

Also, the H1 was 10x better for what it was designed for than the H2 and H3.

The H1 was not designed for commuting to work.

I'm not sure what it was designed for. It doesn't have a lot of space for hauling compared to its size. It's not great for offroading. It's a plastic money extraction machine.

The original was designed to play military at home.it was not a pickup truck or a dedicated and modded offroad machine, and yes it was a money pit. But it was perfect for pretending with a civilian version of the vehicle manufacturrd on the same line as the real thing.

H2 and H3 models were just mediocre rebranded SUVs with hints of the original hummer body lines.

The H2 was just a Tahoe with a different body on it.

Now my mind is really blown. I'm aware of this happening, just not with the H2