Last month I traveled through Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and back, a total of 1,586 miles. During all that time I spotted exactly two Hummers, a black one and a yellow one.
My question is, where have all the Hummers gone, long time ago? Is there a big Hummer graveyard somewhere, probably Texas, where these gigantic lapel flags all rust away together, dreaming of world domination?
Or are they hidden away individually in supersized garages, as unacknowledged by their owners as those earlier votes for Nixon and Bush? Gosh, let's hope not. Those big babies run $50,000 or so, which is a lot to blow even on a meat-extender with a really gross weight of 8,600 pounds powered by a 3.7 liter in-line 5 engine with 95.5 mm bore and a 102 mm stroke.
Especially if you’re ashamed to drive it.
So next time why not go for the economy golf cart version? This little beauty here can be yours for only eighteen large, and what better way to tell the world that you’re not only an asshole, but a cheap one?
P.S. Check out the link in Buck’s comment below to see stunning pictures of an actual Hummer graveyard. And that was back in 2005!

For pictures of what may the biggest Hummer Graveyard in America, a dealer's lot, check out the website "The Mess that Greenspan Made"
http://themessthatgreenspanmade.blogspot.com/2005/11/hummer-overfloweth.html
They used to call motorcycles "crotch rockets." I wonder what we should call Hummers. Testosterone Tortoises? Any ideas?
Posted by: Aitch Jay on December 8, 2007 11:15 AMLast year's Colin McAdam article in Harper's might be the definitive take on the subject. Available online only to subscribers but maybe some of you are, so here's the link:
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/04/0080997
At an off-road rally for Hummer enthusiasts, McAdam finds a strangely high number of participants have survived near-fatal illnesses, lost family members catastrophically, etc. His sad implied theory is that people who need Hummers have been hurt in some way that scared them so deeply they can't get enough armor against the world.
Posted by: Martha Bridegam on December 8, 2007 10:25 PM