Author Topic: best football tv ad evar!!!111one (Read 157 times)

eagl · « **on:** December 29, 2007, 09:25:45 PM »

Just saw the best football tv ad evar!

http://www.hummerhelps.com. It's all about how hummer owners are heros for saving everyone during natural disasters, towing cars out of ditches, "banding together" to help out, etc.

Funny thing, my brother recalls every hummer he ever saw on a real trail was either broken or heading home because the driver didn't want to break their expensive toy on terrain that my bro's $3000 bronco could easily handle even without a locking center diff.

That, and the enviro whackos will of course point out that hummers are so environmentally damaging, they could be blamed in part for the extreme weather that hummerhelps.com is holding up as examples of where hummer drivers are helping everyone out.

It's sort of like starting a house on fire, then taking credit for saving the household cat...

Anyhow, it gets my vote for best football tv ad evar!!!111one

Ripsnort · « **Reply #1 on:** December 29, 2007, 10:11:21 PM »

But really...aren't SUV's really just truck suspensions and engines with a different body style on them?

E25280 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 29, 2007, 10:13:18 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
But really...aren't SUV's really just truck suspensions and engines with a different body style on them?

No, SUVs are large station wagons.

eagl · « **Reply #3 on:** December 29, 2007, 10:20:11 PM »

The hummers are allegedly "upgraded" premium trail rated versions. And a full-up military spec hummer is supposed to be the final word in durability. Except that it's not, and a poor driver will really make a mess of any type of hummer in a hurry. A poor driver in a lightweight nissan truck with locking diff can pretty much make it over almost anything out of dumb luck, because those things are reasonably durable, lightweight, and don't have enough power to break all 4 axles simultaneously. When you lock everything up so all 4 wheels keep turning, you're less likely to trick the transmission into sending 400 ft/lbs to one axle that's also carrying 90% of the weight of the vehicle. But the typical hummer driver doesn't know that, and that's why you see a LOT of hummers getting towed off of trails because they just break their vehicles in situations where other, less expensive vehicles would have done just fine.