Thursday, August 18, 2005
Hummer H3 smaller but still SUCKING GAS LIKE A DRUNKEN SAILOR!
Why are people still buying these things. Now if gas were 25 cents a gallon or the damn things ran on coors light, I could see this. But no gas is 3$/gal and if it was a hybrid engine it would probably require 18 year old scotch.
- The new Hummer H3, which is smaller yet than the H2, is considerably easier to manage in the real world. Its gas mileage, at 19 miles per gallon on the highway with the automatic transmission, is in line with other SUVs of its size.
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Athletic appearance not withstanding, the H3's "lazy fat guy" power-to-weight ratio is going to be hard to swallow, even for true Hummer fans. Its 3.5-liter 5-cylinder engine produces 220 horsepower and 225 foot-pounds of torque.
Maybe that sounds OK when you compare it to the Jeep Grand Cherokee's base V-6 engine, which puts out 210 horsepower and 235 foot-pounds of torque. But the Hummer H3 is lugging around over 900 pounds more weight than the Grand Cherokee.
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