Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Hummer's bummer: GM to discontinue gas guzzler

By GottaLaff

Good riddance.

Whenever I see one of these on the road, I feel my blood pressure go up. They are enormous, take up so much road space that I can never see around them, there isn't a reason in the world the every day driver needs one, and they love and consume gasoline so passionately that they could qualify as their oil dependent own country:

Hummer, the brand of big sport-utility vehicles that became synonymous with the term “gas guzzler,” is being shut down after a deal to sell it to a Chinese manufacturer fell apart, General Motors said Wednesday. G.M. said only that its planned sale of Hummer to the Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines Company “cannot be completed,” without giving a reason, but the $150 million deal had been stalled as the companies awaited approval from the Chinese government.

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