The unrollable nature of the 2cv is due to its stock tires being extremely narrow. They will roll extremely easily if wider tires are fitted. Go search youtube for astonishing video proof.

Try writing for a living. I’d like to see how not lazy you are at it.

Which you would know all about, because you’re obviously a journalist. Right?

And uh, who would you be, Mr. Definitely Not The Author? Other than somebody who obviously has no idea why there’s a discussion section under these articles?

Classics don’t actually appreciate, when you consider that the value of the car is almost always less than what the restoration costs. So while the “value” might increase, that represents only part of the money invested in the thing.

GM had to invest in the tooling to produce the body, which is money that usually takes years to recoup through sales. Given that plenty of cars share platforms and parts these days, the H2 was probably not appreciably cheaper to develop than anything else GM was making.

Why do you ask?

How much did they spend?

The thing that gets me about Americans, is they swear history revolves around their country, and nothing that happened prior ever existed.

Everybody on the planet is racist. Except for a select few people in the U.S. (the center of the world BTW) who make their money talking about racism.

It’s not, because the H2 and H3 were the only vehicles available under their brand, and apparently they didn’t make enough money for GM to continue with the brand.

Well all I know is that the Hummer brand did so well for GM they were desperately trying to sell it off to a Chinese company for about $150,000,000 in 2010, and would have, had the Chinese government not stepped in and (probably rightly) said it was essentially a waste of money. And that was the end of the H2 and H3.

Most of which are not apt comparisons, beyond maybe having four wheels. The H2 was, like the Edsel, essentially supposed to establish a new brand. I’m sure it probably made money, but it also would have had associated expenses that go along with establishing a new brand, regarding marketing, dealers, etc. If it had…

I just find it funny because those who don’t know well enough, always think of the corvair as a failure, or that it was killed by Nader, when neither is really true. The corvair sold well, and despite its expense made a lot of money for GM. The issue was more that it wasn’t so successful as to warrant a direct…

Does that mean they sold a lot of them?

The thing was almost nobody bought them. Ford sold more Edsels in two years than GM sold H2s in any two years of production combined. Ford axed the Edsel as soon as possible, but GM, rather stupidly tried to keep selling the H2, even though sales numbers kept falling. The first three years of H2 production, GM only…

I think a lot of people don’t really understand just how much of a failure the H2 was. GM gave it more chances than it deserved, year after year, but at no point in its production run did annual H2 sales even come close to those of the failtacular Edsel. If GM had axed the H2 with as much celerity as Ford axed the…

I didn’t even bother reading past the first paragraph. People working in retail deal with hundreds of people everyday. It becomes routine to ask for ID. If they slip up once, they can be fired, and their life such as it is, ruined. You might not think that is important.

Wow. Thank you so much for this.

Keep up the top quality work.