Maybe they shot someone? :D
Sudhir

On 9/9/07, Leslie Schwartz <lhs_emf@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Excuse ME?
>
> ..the Dick Cheney of car companies...
>
> And what could possibly be wrong with that?
>
> Please remember your on the internet and being watched.
>
> Sorry, I forgot the OT warning.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Wesley Pegden
> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 1:50 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: 50 worst cars, and the vanagon isn't one of them
>
> I do like his bit on the hummer:
>
> 2003 Hummer H2
> One struggles to think of a worse vehicle at a worse time. Introduced
> shortly after 9/11  an event whose causes were tangled in America's
> unquenchable thirst for oil  the Hummer H2 sent all the wrong signals.
> It was/is arrogantly huge, overtly militaristic, openly scornful of the
> common good. As a vehicle choice, the H2 was a spiteful reactionary
> riposte to notions that, you know, maybe we all shouldn't be driving
> tanks that get 10 miles per gallon. Not surprisingly, the green-niks
> struck back. A Hummer dealership was torched in Southern California. The
> H2 was also a PR catastrophe for GM, who happened to be repossessing and
> crushing the few EV1 electric cars at the time. It all contributed to
> GM's emerging image as the Dick Cheney of car companies.
>
> Jim Felder wrote:
> > CNN's site has a Time magazine report on the 50 worst cars of all
> > time. Most of them are right on the money, but the list should have
> > been about four times longer to get all--or even most--of the pieces
> > of crap that have been sold to the public. A quick scan for the word
> > "Vanagon" out of the way, I enjoyed reading the article.
> >
> > Notice how the 1980s has a disproportionate number of loser cars.
> >
> > <http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_1657686,00.html?cnn=yes>
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
>