In a minor accident, the Hummer and the driver would both survive intact. In a major accident, the Hummer just uses the other car to soften the impact. It doesn't matter which vehicle has the crumple zones, you know, as long as they crumple.

See, crash ratings are, well, the same thing as a Hummer hitting another Hummer, or an Odyssey hitting another Odyssey. What would the crash rating be for a Hummer hitting an Odyssey?

Most collisions involve more than 1 vehicle. (Yes, a few involve cars hitting trees, or deer, etc. In the tree case, the Volvo may do as well as the Hummer, depending on the tree size, etc. In the case of hitting a deer, the Hummer will do far better than a Volvo because of its greater mass. The greater ride height also does a lot of good in that case, since your bumper/grille will hit the deer rather than the windshield.)

Ah yes, because only SUVs use gas...

Big engines use lots of gas. People like to talk ill of SUVs and will pass by an M5 thinking only "hey, nice car!" Take a look at actual car mileages sometime -- just grab a Road & Track and take a look at their car review history near the back -- you may be surprised at who the biggest offenders are in terms of mileage.

Not to mention, there's a certain, shall we say, CONTRADICTION when one criticizes a Hummer driver for driving short distances, and then for using lots of gas. Well, which is it? Someone driving a Civic 50 miles to work each day is using a lot more gas than someone driving a Hummer 5 miles to work each day.

I'm not trying to defend bad fuel economy here. There's lots of room for improvement in that department. But if you're concerned about it, may as well be sensible.

Uhh the F350 is for heavy towing, the H2 is for off-roading. Whoever put money on the H2 in that tug of war is a retard.

Since everyone who replied to my post seems to have misunderstood what I said exactly the same, moronic way, I'll reply to it just once. You don't recklessly cut off an H2 the same way you would a small, light car. A driving mistake around an H2 is much more costly than around a car you can toss around easily. That's what commanding respect on the road means. An aggressive H2 driver will get his/her way more often than not because the H2 is dangerous in a collision, regardless of whose fault it is.

It's not the same kind of respect a Gallardo would get on the road, but it serves the same purpose -- you let it go where it wants.

The H1 is over $100k, the H2 is $70k+, and the H3 is close to $40k if you don't want a bare-bones one.

None of the cars are "sissy" by any standard except maybe when compared to the HMMWV, which is the military version of the H1. An H2 commands plenty of respect on the road (and off the road). The H3 is a more expensive and less reliable XTerra, so it's rubbish in that sense but it's definitely not a sissy car.

And no Volvo would do well in an actual collision with any of the Hummer models. The Volvo SUV might do OK in a collision with an H3, but that's it.

And why exactly should religion get this respect? What is it about religion that makes people give it a free ride no matter what? The free world has acquired a dirty habit of bending over backwards for every demand Muslims make, and this is just another example of that. Buddhist texts shouldn't be given *undue* respect, either (note that they probably deserve more than most of the Qur'An), but that's a non-issue since Buddhists aren't the ones censoring material on the grounds of their religious beliefs.