You are just plain wrong on that statement. My experience with the previous gen Suburban was 14-15 real world city 18-19 real world highway. The worst MPG I ever recorded in a modern Suburban was pulling a fully loaded V-nosed 4 place snowmobile trailer with 4 guys and all our gear into a 50 mph head wind for 600…

It’s still fall for 4 more days :p

I was working at GMs advanced concept center in Cali when the Syclones first came out and we got one to pass around before they got to the dealers. First thing we did was cover the decals with black tape so nobody knew what it was when a S10 blew there doors off.

NEVER, EVER, EVER buy a winter beater/daily driver from a “car guy friend” it’s already well beaten, and never a good deal. Ditch the Honda and look for a high mileage used rental car, you have a much better chance it was treated well.

Agreed on the cycles, but sometimes trying to shake things up doesn’t work so well, Aztec come to mind.

Hitting the kill switch on the handle bar of a snowmobile as you’re lined up to run is always good fun. : )

In my 28 years of working at GM Design, I’ve yet to meet a designer that graduated from an Ivy League design school. Although I do know several GM designers that have gone on to Asian company.

All I’ve got to say is it was an East European car that made the cover of the Crap Cars book. ;p

While the lines have certainly gotten blurry, IMO, a manufacturer home country still sees far more befit from any given car sale. Most forget that the engineering, marketing, design, and other support activities on an Automakers home turf far out weight any single plant in terms of jobs and tax base many times over.

I don’t know if this is what happened in this case, but new regs typically have a grandfather clause in them that allows carry over tech to stay in play until it’s next planed update or a fixed date, whichever comes first.

I’m no expert by any means, but 2 possibilities I can see are that the landing gear can be much more compact if the plane is sitting closer to the ground and that with high mounted engines there is less chance of Foreign Object Damage. I suspect that wing mount over fuselage mounting transfers less noise to the cabin.

This wreck happened on my way home to park the bike (81 xs650 Yamaha) after showing it to a potential buyer on his lunch hour, his deposit was in my pocket. Van Born road at the time was a semi-rural 4 lane road with a 50 mph speed limit, being near Detroit Metro airport there was a lot of truck traffic in the area.…

Beat me to it. :)

I like the original better, sound more like a true ‘Merican solution. ; )

Boy am I gonna get some flack, but the perfect follow on to the H1 would be a H2. Hear me out....

“The most important thing is being ignored - the DRIVER. You make things safer and safer for the driver, and they’ll maneuver like idiots trusting in their car to save them from their stupidity.”

I know you were fishing, but I’ll bite anyway. It sucks, and is a poor quality design rip off, the line and surface work looks to be done by amateurs. Hummers were very hard to get to look right, just enough shape to look boxy and rugged without looking like a brick.

My 79 year old mother dove a Miata until last year. I let her drive a C6 Zo6 few years back, Her comment on that, after hammering it well into triple digits, was “Driving my Miata makes me giggle, this is laugh out loud fun!”. My Mom the kind of old lady that would drive a Subie STi.

Reminds me of the nut bag I ran into (figuratively) driving a clapped out, stickered up, oil burning Honda Civic, hanging half out her drivers side window and screamed incoherently about blood for oil at my wife and I for over a mile, because I was driving a Hummer H2, on Woodward, during the Dream Cruise.

No shop involved, a few more....