Author Topic: Any Hummer H2 Owners Out There?  (Read 966 times)

Offline OIO

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Any Hummer H2 Owners Out There?
« Reply #30 on: October 01, 2004, 01:36:59 PM »
umm.. in your picture you have a really old model pickup front-smashing an H2.

That the H2's snout crumpled is a great thing, all modern cars are designed to do that so that the car absorbs the impact not the driver.

toughness of a car imo is not based on if they become accordeons when they get hit, but on how well they take loads, how durable they are and what terrain they can negotiate.

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Any Hummer H2 Owners Out There?
« Reply #31 on: October 01, 2004, 03:15:27 PM »
I used to own a Toyota Landcruiser when I worked in the oil business in Indonesia.

Very tough and good to go through mud. But a very uncomfortable ride and noisy. The mileage was pretty bad too but it made up for that with a pretty big gas tank.

I drove mine from middle of Sumatra to Jakarta and back many times and once around the whole of Java. I probably put 100,000 km on it with all my travels and it never broke down although it probably had 200,000 on it when I got it. I don't know because the original odometer was not working.

I had it restored and used it for 2 years before I sold it for more than I had invested it it.

They are tough and good offroad but they handle like crap. They also have one mean massive front bumber that is basically a piece of steel that sticks out 8" from the front of the car. Great for making crazy Indonesian drivers from cutting you off. No one cuts of a Landcrusier and gets away scott free. :)