Comment Re:yeah well (Score 1) 743
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.
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.
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