Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Compensation sighting


You don't see too many of these on the road anymore.  



Related reading:
The strange tale of Hummer: The life and death of a brand.  (Quirk's Media, 1/1/2013)
GMC will revive the Hummer as a 1,000HP electric truck.  (engadget, 1/30/2020)
Still, the announcement represents a symbolic turnaround for the Hummer badge and GM as a whole. The original civilian Hummer (the H1) was meant to capitalize on post-Gulf War fervor and represented '90s excess between its enormous size and horrible fuel economy -- it was practically designed to hurt the environment.

Of course, GMC's announcement was made before the coronavirus pandemic changed everything. 

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