November 25, 2007 10:01 AM
Batshit Crazy "HUMMER" commercial
If you want to survive the apocalypse, buy a HUMMER! It looks like they hired either Tom Tancredo or Ari Fleisher's Freedom Watch group to produce this ad. It has all the fear factor elements and major disasters that have defined Bush and the GOP. Now HUMMER is using them on the American people to sell their product. It's just wonderful darling.
A commercial just aired during Meet The Press featuring a montage of natural disaster clips. The very last clip showed a city street flooded with water -- and a Hummer cruising through the water.
The tag logo? HOPE: HUMMER OWNERS PREPARED FOR EMERGENCIES. This is followed by a view of the planet from space. Eff you, Hummer and eff you, Meet The Press, for airing the worst commercial ever.
hummer owners are usually short men with short-man-syndrome....
no equipment down there (if you know what i mean)
maybe we'll get lucky and all hummer owners *will* drive into tornadoes, hurricanes, fires, and etc.
one can always hope!
t4t0nk4 @ 2:
lol! REC!
That makes me want to drive a forklift into the next hummer I see...
Great catch. And disgusting indeed. Someone described once what Rome looked like before it fell apart. I hate seeing that in my own country. Might as well fight.
I've got a new tagline for them;
HUMMER - Helping you survive the disasters we create...
Ummmm... hate to break it to you, but this is a commercial asking Hummer owners to actually do something for their community.
But really, it's a lost cause, as Hummer owners are the least likely types to think about their fellow man.
Lol, this is a joke. The Hummer2 and 3 are the biggest pieces of sh*t to come out of American auto makers in the last 20 years. They are a lot of flash on top of an abysmal drive train and suspension. A craptastic car for people who will buy into anything. This is probably the funniest thing I'll see all day seriously. Almost as funny as when I saw the video of a H2 offroading up a rocky river bed, when suddenly the suspension completely snaps and the wheels turn inwards. Yeah, that bad boy is ready for anything....The same way the Jeep is still as tough as it was 50 years ago...
Blue Buddha @ 7:
do what for their community?
Great. Just great. It's bad enough that I'm Bat Schlitz Crazy, now Hummer owners have been lumped in with me. Thanks, Amato...thanks a lot.
A planet destroying behemoth causing disaster everywhere it goes riding through the floods and fires it is helping to create with a pull back shot of the earth it is helping to destroy.
Yea, I'd say that commercial pretty much sums up the Hummer but probably not the best commercial if you are trying to sell one. Someone on Madison Avenue should get their walking papers over that one.
S 1959 "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007" must be stopped at all costs. We lost our right to Habeas Corpus. We lost our right to privacy. Now we are going to lose our right for free speech. No Hummer can overcome that. Contact your US Senator's office to instruct them to vote "NO" on S.1959.
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
My understanding is only a fraction of H2 drivers ever take their severely expensive vehicle off the road to begin with. And that in any real stress situation the cars completely come apart. I saw a hilarious photo on this site which I can't find now of a woman who tried to drive her H2 over a concrete median and snapped the axle right in half.
So, in a natural disaster you'd probably be better off driving AWAY like a sane person, and also not driving a vanity toy car.
Love ya C&L, but posting their commercial is giving them free ad time here. Oh well, I know you are just trying to show how lame the commercial is....
and yea, Hummer's are shit cans
That thing should be loaded with gas cans like in Road Warrior.
Which came first, natural disasters created by Global Warming or Global Warming created by over consumption of petrochemicals that is enhanced by SUV's; Hummers being literally the largest offender?
This is a lot like suggesting that being run down by an Ambulance has its postive advantages because at least the paramedics are already on the scene.
Hummers are so last year. Real (Tm) soccer moms drive APCs.
I heard a commercial this morning for the republican youtube debate: it sounded like an ad for those monster truck shows.
This isn't actually a bad thing. The web site shown at the end of the ad is for a group encouraging owners of Hummers to register with a program where they can use their vehicles in the case of an emergency to help others during disaster relief.
Unlike most Hummer commercials, this one's not about showing off.
SUV = WMD
To my way of thinking, the Hummer has become the 21st Century equivalent to the flashy expensive sportscar -- particularly those driven by the kind of men who like to rev their engines while waiting for the light to turn in order to draw attention to themselves. In short, as far as I'm concerned, it's a flashing indicator of someone trying to ...*ahem!*...overcompensate for something. I still vividly recall my first thought upon encountering a bright yellow Hummer parked on the corner of my street here in New York City a couple of years ago -- "Gee, fella...that thing BIG enough for you?!?"
With a real average of 10 mpg and a lack of available fuel in a crisis, your better off on foot aren't you?
Define irony - Right wingers refuse to acknowledge the devastating effects of global warming, yet fall all over each other in support of an ad that brags gas guzzling monstrocities (like Hummers) can and will be the savior to humanity when the weather gets all funky and causes crazy acid rain and snow storms.
Wow, we know Arnold will be safe when the apocalype arrives - he and Maria can tour the ruins in any one of their FOUR Hummers they own.
Hummers solely exist for those males with big egos and little dicks, but do you honestly
below_me @ 1:
I've only known two hummer drivers and both were females.
Here in Vegas strippers are the only ones who drive them. They think 8 miles to the gallon is great and less miles in better for the environment.
When the Rapture comes, beware of falling Hummers.
Blue Buddha @ 7:
Sorry, BB but both those statements are so wacked out I can't even tell ya.
This ad was approved by Trent Lott, Mitch McConnel, Raum Emanuel, Steney Hoyer, Joe Lieberman, George W. Bush, Brownbeck, Pat Robertson, Both Clintons, Rudy-the cross-dresser, and most of all by MR REPUBLIKAN HIMSELF, THE MAN WHO OWNS A FLEET OF HUMMERS, ARNIE-THE-GROPER-GOVENOR-OF-CALIFORNIA-SWARTZNEAGER, and is aimed at, (get this), all the folks who lost everything they had and are now gonna get rich offa the great help that FEMA is gonna give them.....huh?
E in MD @ 24:
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
leastwise @ 19:
I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, seeing as how it was natural disasters dipicted and not a mall terrorist bombing. So when I went to www.hummerhelps.com, I expected some sort of charity/disaster relief fund with a Hummer tie-in, but instead it linked directly to their homepage, WTF!
I don't normally condone messing with people's vehicles, but I have to try real hard not too whenever I see a Hummer. And they always seem to be doing something obnoxious, i.e. double parking, cutting others off, driving way too fast, tailgating...
Wait, that's not the car's fault, that's the oblivious, entitlement prone drivers.
If there's no such thing as global warming, then there shouldn't be an increase in the number and intensity of hurricanes. Rising waters? Nah, the polar caps aren't melting.
And 'asking the Hummer owners to give back' ... somehow, I doubt the first thing on their minds when it comes to purchasing a Hummer is, "I wanna give back to the community."
This is right up there with the IKEA commercial that says, "Home is the most important place in the world" and includes a shot of a makeshift shack built onto the back of a busted sedan.
'Cause we all know homeless people shop at IKEA.
"Hey wait now, I've worked hard to afford my Hummer, why shouldn't I treat myself?"
Because you're not that goddamn important, and if you really want a sport utility vehicle that's capable, there's other better options. Don't try to fool yourself by trying to fool us.
Jake @ 8:
I'd love to see that video!
Where did you see it?
Please post a URL, please!!
The only civilian hummer I ever drove in was owned by a 21 yr old male that loved off roading and hunting. To him I say boo-ya, you drunken dumbass, drive on.
To that fuckwit completely blocking my view in the school parking lot, who the frickin-frack are you planning to invade between here and the drycleaners? As far as I know the Chinese Buffet is on our side
leastwise @ 19:
At least we have the example of all of America's Hummer owners driving down to NOLA to help the poor people stranded by Katrina.
On a related note, I met a woman once who offered to give me a Hummer. I turned her down - I think she was just trying to get in my pants.
"This isn’t actually a bad thing. The web site shown at the end of the ad is for a group encouraging owners of Hummers to register with a program where they can use their vehicles in the case of an emergency to help others during disaster relief."
Right. That ranks right up there with the Hell's Angels motorcycle bunch who take a few hours off every year from selling meth and shooting and stabbing those who get in their way to deliver Christmas presents to little kids.
Naomi Wolf is shaking her head with disgust...
Speaking from an army perspective, I wouldn't mind having one of these, they have better armor than the standard army hummer whose doors are made out of canvas and whose chassie is made out of the thinnist fiberglass and sheet metals money can buy.
I'm just glad to see that all of these Hummer owners can finally reap the bounty they so richly deserve for their generous contributions to global warming.
Ironic that they're willing to help in a disaster, considering that their gas-guzzling vanity has helped to put us in that position.
TM @ 34:
They used to show a Ford commercial here that was similar to that. The Ford truck was dropped from a height and bounced. You could clearly see a broken tie-rod hanging down.
Farkit @ 22:
morbid curiosity got me to a Hummer dealership just last week. The "smaller" Hummer had it's gas milage posted in the window which 13mpg city/16mpg hwy. I walked over to the larger Hummer to see the milage sticker on that one and read something like "not applicable for this vehicle class" which I tells you it is probably in the 8/12 range.
I live in Manhattan and on the rare occasions I see one it almost always has New Jersey plates (sorry Jerseyites but it's true) and my fellow New Yorkers usually laugh or shake their heads in disgust when they see one on the street. These neanderthals who buy them think they are so cool but little do they know how often they are laughed at or looked looked at with disgust for driving one. Or maybe they do know and just don't care.
Weaseldog @ 41:
Next flood they should do a count on how many Hummers get swept away.
ANd why do they, and pickup truck owners, always have to leave their vehicles running while the passenger goes into the store?
Two of my neighbors have those things. They look so ridiculous driving them around and I think they know it because they will never make eye contact with anyone. Why the hell does anyone need the equivalent of a tank to drive to the grocery store?
If there is an emergency here, I'm not holding my breath until one of my hummer neighbors comes to the rescue.
yeah, the H1 could have handled this, but the H2 is just a beefy hull on a lousy SUV chassis. It's no more ready to take on THE APOCALYPSE!!! than a Chevy Suburban, and much less than a Land Rover.
hadenuf @ 44:
They are damn hard to push start.
Hummers are going to melt the icecaps... they are going to be the cause of the very emergencies they claim to be useful in...
I thought we were in Iraq so that we didn't have to fight them over here? Strange...
Sorry, that was comment for comment #12.
That was the lamest commercial for one the worst products I've ever scene. They are really in their last throes with that one.
If there's one American auto manufacturer that should be completely boycotted and thrown under the bus, it's GM. They continue to try and cram that piece of crap hummer into every commercial space they can while sales continue to drop. For some reason they won't quit. With any other model, if it's not selling well, they reduce the ad budget and move on to their next abomination, but not when it comes to the almighty Hummer. GM holds on to that like the Bush admin on Iraq, no matter how bad it gets, it's all they got and they are sticking with it.
Ruthless People @ 42:
I recently saw a commercial for the new H3...Now with V8 power...great...I really REALLY think that Hummer owners in particular, and SUV owners in general, just don't give a damn about the environment.
The people that drive these wasteful, destructive vehicles will hopefully someday come to the realization that they are a big part of why the world is so fucked up. We all know that it's important to use resources wisely, we all know that the world is teetering on the brink of environmental/climactic catastrophe, and yet these selfish, egotistical idiots drive around in their Hummers (and Escalades/Suburbans/Canyoneros/etc.). On that day they come to this realization, I hope they all drive their stupid fucking Hummers off a cliff...
more at my blog...
Better gas mileage than a Prius; more reliable than an Accord; takes IED's all day and smiles; easy to parallel park; holds up to 12 Blackwater employees. One of these is true.
About a month ago, a non-US citizen--in town for less than three weeks and on prescription medication ran over and killed a woman on a bicycle at an intersection while she waited for the light to change. Take a guess what she was driving.
A civvy Hummer driver not only doesn't care about the environment, s/he actually and actively hates the environment.
leftminded @ 55:
A Trek?
I'm not a Hummer fan but I'm not entirely sure what's wrong with letting people know that their vehicles are designed to work in the worst conditions. It seems to me that marketing your product to use in case of emergencies is almost sort of honorable, at least compared to their prior commercials where they're pretty much saying, Buy a Hummer, Get Some Pussy.
I'm going to get my survival kit that I put together for the Y2K crisis, and add my duct tape and plastic sheeting I put together after 9/11, and load it all up into my Hummer, because we could have an emergency any time now.
I asked a hummer owner how many soliders' lives per gallon was he getting?
Of course he turned and hummed away.
Yeah right....that Hummer would be trashed. These are not your military vehicles, these are GM produced replicas of real vehicles, and will crumble in a crash or any other type of off-roading. Overpriced crap, like so much we produce today.
I don't necessarily agree with the criticism of the commercial because it at least shows justification for owning such an outlandish vehicle. I mean, short of racing through flood waters or toward a tornado, I cannot find any justification for the existence of such a ridiculous, greedy (in all senses of the word. Hummers not only consume way too much fuel, but are so large and ungainly that they attempt to dominate physical space as well. A thing designed to intimidate–which is not too surprising considering their military origins) vehicle.
On a slight tangent, such vehicles are partially why I am not too sympathetic about the troubles of the American auto industry (from the management level, that is. The stories of layoffs, plant closings, and dreams of families destroyed almost bring me to tears) because while General Motors was purchasing the rights to manufacture Hummers (which share much DNA with the common Chevy Tahoe underneath their ugly, blocky skins) Toyota was producing hybrids.
Guess who invested more wisely?
Buy a Hummer, Get Some Pussy
I think the term PUSSY WAGON's been taken.
As a bicycle riding, prius driving liberal, I thought the ad pretty well done. Yeah, okay, troll alert, but really, it's a just a vehicle. Honestly, focus on the real problem instead of demonizing people. The real problem is miles driven, not which vehicles are driven. I know that breaks the current meme, but it really is the core problem. Ten families driving one mile to work in hummers is way better than ten families driving honda's twenty miles to work. Higher mileage vehicles are one of the reasons sprawl is what it is in America. Frankly, forget cars, an acre of rice puts out methane that at 40 times more greenhouse gas effect makes all the hummers in the world mere blips in the war on warming. Keep to the path here and maybe we can beat warming. But trashing a silly ad is not going to do anything except marginalize a 1/4 of the country.
I'm also a tool loving liberal who loves building stuff and having nice machines around to do it with, so I see the appeal of the ad on that front. And really an H1 or a classic pre-crap land rover _would_ help bail your ass out (assuming you could fuel it, true) in a bad situation. And the ad makers here are also playing, very expertly, on the red state notion of power heroism. Instead of dissing it, try learning from it. If you want to change opinions on the red side you are going about it completely the wrong way. The reactions here are only going to solidify the opinion of someone who may be swayed by the ad. But maybe taking sides was the point as opposed to being constructive.
Chicago Joe @ 63:
That would have to be some pretty skank pussy that would want to sleep with a Hummer driver.
the weight class of these vehicles allows tax breaks / write offs .
So I've been told.
randomstranger @ 58:
Designed?! These Hummers are total crap! Totally not made for off road. They are made to carry soccer moms and spoiled rotten little republicans. The miltary hummer is a different story, that is a total badass vehicle. I would never own one, but they can pretty much climb a damn tree.
Though if they made an suv that got 50+ mph I might drive one.
Elpis @ 64:
Don't worry, $10/gal gasoline and declining wages will kill these dinosaurs off.
Maybe it's me...
But aren't HumJobs basically pimped-up Chevy Suburbans and/or GMC Yukon Denalis?
And can the Last Millennium's NutSacks load all their (non-refundable) leftover Y2K survival shit into it?
The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, went as far as calling anyone who drives a 4x4, let alone a Hummer, in his city an idiot.
They are not practical for city driving and are really only a status symbol for people with way too much money.
If you are someone who traverses rugged terrain then it is reasonable, but not pavement.
randomstranger @ 58:
They aren't designed to work in the worst conditions. If you look closely at the video - that hummer isn't even a part of the image - its a digitized, superimposed fake. Again - THE HUMMER ISN'T REALLY THERE.
The key word here is "marketing". The whole ad is a lie to make Hummers more acceptable by making it appear they could actually have a legitimate use. Combine that with a BS 'support / communitiy' website that has no valid emergency response content and you have the Sales/Marketing Perfect Storm. IMHO - this is even worse than "Buy a Hummer, Get some Pussy" campaign. You will now have idiots trying to play hero by driving their crap vehicles into danger, thereby getting themselves into danger... creating more trouble than they are worth - the defining factor in being a hummer owner I wold think.
I am going to buy a hummer just to piss the prius freaks off. in fact I am going to let it run on my driver all night long as well. It would be histerical
leftminded @ 55:
Not quite sure of what's your point. Are you commenting upon immigration ("a non-US citizen"), the death of a woman on a bicycle, the vehicle the person that killed the woman on the bicycle was driving (which would be relevant to the original posting), or the person driving the Hummer being on prescription drugs? Btw, a little background: Where was the person who drove the Hummer from? Your post has a certain unseemly quality to it, though without a little background I am not sure.
This ad could well be any contemporary right-wing political ad, combining fear with the notion of unitary action. The America of post 9-11 is alone in a dangerous and threatening world. On some levels, this ad is seen as justification for the theory of the unitary executive and unilateral military aggression. There's also a not so subtle reference to the image of the Firefighters of 9/11 rushing into the burning World Trade Center. As the narrative states, "After disaster strikes, most people run from point A to point B. Then there are a qualified few, who run from point B to point A."
Technodaoist @ 71:
I don't think the snorkel is available on the civilian model is it?
Howcome Robin never cried, "Holy Bats**t, Batman!"
Only in the throes of passion.
I always giggle like a virginal schoolgirl whenever people say the word Hummer.
I'll put my Prius up against a Hummer any day. When we can't afford or get much gas, mine may not go though as much fire or water but it will get me further away from these conditions. (50+ mpg compared to 5- mpg?)
Jake is right.
You'd be better off chasing tornadoes in a Honda civic or a sports car, seriously. Besides the horrible suspension, the box like shape isn't exactly the best for strong side winds or strong currents. The little toy would be thrown around the road, and combine that with a driver who feels he or she is invincible, and you have a problem.
We drove an Acura Integra through a tornado (by accident) and when one hit my neighborhood, it was mostly the sports cars that were left alone. Aerodynamics and the center of gravity matter a lot more than wide tires and a ground clearance that is just asking to be flipped over.
However, it would be entertaining to watch these idiots use their shiny gas guzzlers to save the world, or at least the fellow members of their congregation.
Hummer is a death machine. It's coffin on wheels in Iraq. No marine would want to be caught dead in armored challenged Hummer in Iraq. The old JEEP has better armor than Hummer.
But of course, that's the reality. And given our fascination with fantasy, so here it is, "Hummer, the toughest, and most expensive all terrain vehicle made in the USA and used by our armed forces." And we, the intellectually challenged US, buy into that mantra and buys a Hummer.
Were I in need of a vehicle that could "survive the elements", you can bet your bottom dollar it wouldn't be a flaccid, flimsy-ass crap pile civilian Hummer.
someone should point out that after the Apocalypse, gasoline will be in short supply. I'd rather have a mountainbike than a hummer.
And as others have said, these machines are not built for off road. If the water had been 1 inch higher, that hummer would have frozen to a halt, stranding all the passengers. Public Hummer is not the same as the military hummer.
I can't wait to see some jackass try to drive his hummer through a few feet of water and then have the whole thing seize up.. he'll sue and say "they did it in the commercial".
Unsean @ 62:
Yeah, except they can't. Two years ago there was wide coverage, here in Arizona, of an H2 getting caught in a wash during a flash flood, and the Jeep that went in to said wash to wench it out. I don't want to get in to a pissing match about the best off road vehicle, but anyone that knows anything about driving in hazardous conditions would never take an H2 or H3...
What horseshit. The people who sponsor those ads, as well as those who buy into them, should be tarred and feathered.
Weaseldog @ 68:
Yes, it will. And people say capitalism never does any good. All to more reason to ignore them as a problem that will neatly take care of itself. Actually in Europe gas is 8$ a gallon already and the 7-series bmws are still sucking down the same fuel as before. It may take 20$/gallon. But that will be, what, a year after it hits 10$? On that note, I'm building my earth-sheltered home next year in preparation.
You want to fight global warming? Push for pedestrian-friendly, car-free development in your city. You might just save your city by doing so. The hummers are nothing in the big picture and are just distracting everyone.
below_me @ 1:
So you're saying it's the only 'hummer' they'll ever get?
Hummer.....rhymes with "Dumber".
A few years back they actually had a tag line in a commercial that made me laugh. It ended wit this sexy, sultry female voice saying something like, "This Christmas, give him what he really wants. Give him a hummer."
The tag line should read "Hummer owners are prepared for the coming disasters they helped create."
I was pleasantly surprised that my 1970 VW van was pretty adept at handling high water- although anything over 18 inches would cause it to float and lose traction. It looks like they are only going through about a foot in that commercial. The H1 or any Land Rover would do you better than this built up Suburban.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSMTRxIknpw
Unsean @ 72:
I guess my point was that when hearing of this accident and that a Hummer was involved, I thought to myself; typical. Some self-important, can't wait for anyone, make-up-putting-on, cell-phone-using lunitic was involved. Sorry, but that's my bias leaking out. I just hate those things.
It wasn't until later the investigation showed the other things I mentioned to be true. I don't hold her not being a citizen as a factor except possibly for her driving experience. As for the drugs, yeah, she probably would have taken out the woman while driving a Prius, though the cyclist's chances for survival may have been higher. I believe the driver was from Europe but can't remember for sure.
Elpis @ 84:
Americans drive further on average. So it works out in the end.
Sigh @ 87:
Yeah I remember that one, lol!
Really classy.
I wouldn't own a Hummer if it was given to me! (I'd sell the P.O.S.) I run circles around Hummers with my old Wrangler 4banger, on the road or off.
Buy a Hummer, it will get you through the disaster your waste has wrought on this planet! Yay!
This has to be a parody. ...... Nope, its real.
brothermark @ 93:
Same here! I have a trooper RS with a blown engine, I'm waiting to find a diesel, or preferably a hybrid to replace it(knowng me, I'll most likely sell the damn thing to get it out of my yard)..but when it did run, it got just under 25 mph...which ain't bad for a late 80's 4 banger suv.
Buy a Hummer! Use it for emergency housing when the bank takes your home!
In 1986, I was heading up to Saratoga to photo the yearling sale, at the Fasig Tipton Sales PAvillion, in a Honda Civic. Saratoga Lake was flooded from a gully washer rainstorm. Water was rushing down the hill, across the road & into the lake. Lakefront homes were up to their window sills in water and it came over the door, into my car.................. The car didn't stall or wash into the lake, we just kept going until we reached high ground. What a night, the lights went out the horses were spooked, and we had to roll up our pantlegs, to wade to the ladies room in a separate building. I got some great photos!
Any one of my 3 VW diesel rabbits can do the same, ( 79,81, & 83) the road to town floods if there is a high tide with a heavy rain..........no problem. Repairs on the 24 year old car run approx. $1,000. per year, and gets 50 miles per gallon!.
Hummer Bah Humbug!
There's a guy in my tiny town who's having a mid-life crisis - he's in his 50s or so. He's already had the jailbait girlfriend (which broke up his marriage) and now he's bought an H2. Wonder what's next?
"Dumb and Hummer"
When a Hummer can take this kind of damage and keep tickin', let me know. I might not want to laugh at them so much.
Cherokee
It is ironic, as the Hummer is the one helping to create the natural disasters by contributing to global warming.
The only way to survive the Bushpocalypse is to own a Hummer.
Owning Hummers will hasten the Buchpocalypse.
Bush wins either way.
Funny how that works out.
One of the dumbest things I've seen was the "Hummer Parade" in the French Quarter (pre-Katrina). I'd bet very few of those H2s were out helping people escape the flooding one year later.
And those damn big beads they were chucking out the window while going 25mph hurt!
huys, we got toyota doing their thing with a truck over a canyon, we got car commercials talking about luxury this and luxury that, hell we even have a sun roof decapitating a kitty out there and a VW containing a terr bomber.
The only folks that can afford the hummer now days are contracotrs working on designated projects. The civilian Hummer is not as rugged as the military hummer, but like jeep working off the cache of the old Willie, they are hoping it will sell cars.
The civilian hummer is like a chickenhawk, its in the rear with the beer, not on the front lines. like Jake observed, it does not handle the ruff stuff like smaller, proven designed vehicles, that btw put out just as much exhaust.
I trusted my afghan diesal toyota hilux more that the hummer, but I'm stupid like that..
Well, the commercial got your attention, didn't it? That's the point of all commercials, to get your attention. Trouble is, now that Hummer has it, the commercial is useless. It doesn't give any information about the effort to get Hummer owners to do something for communities. Pretty awful commercial, in that most of us thought of how the product is creating the very disasters the organization (HOPE? Kind of ironic) is hoping to counteract.
Talk about a company taking a page out of the Bush fear playbook.
"..The very last clip showed a city street flooded with water — and a Hummer cruising through the water. "
wow, hummers cause *and* conquer global warming at the same time it seems!
now that's american "can do" engineering for ya.
They're ugly-ass cars.
Some idiot is gonna see the next Katrina coming and decide to ride it out in his Hummer. They'll find his drowned corpse in a mangle heap somewhere. Won't that make a great followup commercial, eh?
Oops.
randomstranger @ 58:
That be great if they were actually equipped for this, but they are not. They are literally pieces of shit. The suspension snaps under anything remotely stressful to it.
While I agree that Hummers are crap and should be illegal to own, the www.hummerhope.com website actually suggests that Hummer owners can volunteer to assist the red cross in times of emergency - what I believe the advertisement was trying to convey, and I guess I'd have to applaud any owner who volunteered to help, cuz it's the right thing to do. I'm kinda surprised that no one here seems to have looked it up.
This is the kind of bat shit mentality I think of when I see one of them on the road. It's just what we need....a passenger car built like a tank, so when it rear ends me, it can smash my car like an aluminum pop can. How absurd.
Too much money, too little brains on how to use it.
Hummers are pieces of shit. For proof watch this video, but turn your speakers down, cuz the music sucks.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lpxoomyFs_0
Reminds me of Scrooged- "I want them to be terrified not to own a Hummer!"
The site isn't hummerhelps.com, it's http://www.hummerhope.com/
Do I think all Hummers should be immediately submitted for reprocessing into earth saving solar cells? Yes. Do I think every Hummer produced is an affront to the Earth and sanity in general? Yes. Do I think every Hummer owner is off their rocker and should have to pay extra taxes on the gas they buy? Yes
I also think they exist. And that asking owners to help out when a flood or other natural disaster hits a town is a good thing. And that calling out a program that helps people who just lost their house is a bit shrill.
The first thing I thought of when this was posted, was movies of San Francisco 1908 Earthquake. The only vehicles getting around in the rubble were bicycles. No Hummer driver would want to wreck their vehicle navigating that debris.
skinnergy @ 112:
Ha, ha. That's great! I just got cutoff on my ride home for lunch by someone driving one of these pieces of shit. Is it any surprise that the Japanese are kicking GM/Ford/Chryslers' asses?
I'm about as progressive as they get, but I'm not reading into the lines that you guys are. Yeah, it's not the best car for the environment, etc., but trying to put a political spin on this Hummer ad seems pretty far-fetched to me. Maybe you need to take a deep breath and relax a little.
Brilliant, no wonder Republicans keep winning elections, these guys are brainwashing geniuses! The Hummer, probably the worst invention ever, after the car and the coal fired electricity plant, usually purchased by the most selfish, cowardly, egomaniacs on the planet is now the transportation of choice for humanitarian workers, rescue workers, first responders etc., buy a Hummer and show everyone you are a tough Greenpeace, Peacecorps, Amnesty International, NGO type, ready to save people from disaster at any time...my God these guys are brilliant! Talk about Orwellian manipulation theses guys are masters, War is Peace!
Or we could just have a functioning FEMA.
I guess this is sort of the libertarian version of FEMA... 'if you can afford a Hummer, you deserve to live'.
After checking to make sure the driver & occupants are not threatening, I flip off as many H-Tooz as possible. Send in your pics to fuckyouh2.com
A British perspective on the Hummer: http://youtube.com/watch?v=6TNUVDKVUjY
I thought the H2s were based on the standard GM platform that is used by the suburvan and all those crappy SUVs?
Hummers are ugly pieces of shit:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6be7fwGgksY&feature=related
Let me correct that website
www.fuh2.com
How much you want to bet that the white Hummer in the commercial
was being driven by Blackwater mercenaries?
How's this for a Hummer commercial?
http://www.renodiscontent.com/wp-content/bush_turkey.jpg
The good news is that Hummer sales are plummeting. In addition to the obvious effect of $3 gas, they are also no longer trendy even among the short-dick dad/selfish soccer mom crowd. Even high school kids don't think they're cool anymore.
American troops are losing limbs guarding pipelines for these yuppy scumbags buying Hummers
Absurd. Hummers are the grocery runner for the biggest pussy's off and on road but off road, a Cherokee out performs a Hummer any day.
This is a STUPID commercial on many levels, and makes me highly suspicious of the "Hummerhope" concept. If they wanted to really promote that they would have shown real footage of real hummers really helping, somehow. Preferably in a more dry envionment, not carrying anything too heavy nor going over really bumpy ground. A REAL Hummer with a snorkel and a tow hook carying lots of fuel and rescue supplies might actually be useful. Looks like they're selling the idea you could help in a disaster to make you feel good about going to the store in an 8 MPG pig. IF one wanted to really feel beter about driving one, you could convert it, interesting links here: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/120/motorhead-messiah.html
http://www.saeenergy.com/09_about.htm
http://www.news.com/Hummers-and-muscle-cars-go-green/2100-11389_3-617413...
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/11/23/video-first-look-at-john-goodwin...
John @ 59:
The will be no national emergency until December 2008. That's when Bush is about to leave and a democratic president takes over. He will use his new rule which states he can remain in power until the crisis is over. Your Hummer will be useful then if you can still afford the gas.
You guys are being way to hard on them!
Sometimes getting a hummer helps me feel hope. Well, maybe not "hope" exactly, but still... ;)
But H.O.P.E? Horribly Overcompensating Penis Envy? Is that really the slogan they should be using?
http://www.fuh2.com/
Good for a few laughs.
Hummers qualify for what my daughter and I call teenie peenie trucks. We wave our little fingers at them.
http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/1226566415052967283aEFmbY
Apparently penis envy is a non-partisan issue.
It's the Tomorrow Never Dies school of business. Create the disasters, then profit from them.
Do Hummers come with generators that create electricity for the Gas Station's pumps to run in order to fill up behemoth's guzzling tanks? When a disaster strikes usually the electricity goes out, maybe Hummers can run on dead soldiers now?
Thanks GM for killing off the EV1 in favor of the Hummer.
Is this worse than the Chevy commercial with the song "This is our country" that uses Rosa Parks' picture to sell trucks?
What would be funnier than a website of people giving the middle finger to hummers is a web site that showed people holding up their pinky's to hummer drivers as in "Your dick is this small" because everybody knows that all hummer drivers tiny dicks.
...all hummer drivers have tiny dicks.
Jack Coleman @ 141:
Yeah! Remember all those brave Hummer owners selflessly helping out the residents of New Orleans?
Oh wait - that didn't happen.
Rusty Shackleford @ 142:
you mean like the louisiana national guard hummers that were in iraq instead?
EFG @ 115:
What if the emergency is no more gas left?
Hummer-owning morons.
Help!!! HEEELP!!!!
I'm a-skeered!!!!!!
Fuck the hummer.
If we had only known about the fact that owning a Hummer makes you go to a disaster area and hopefully help, we could have gotten George Bush one so that he could have gotten to NOLA faster. This could have been a test case for the commercial's hypothesis. Would George have gone from point A- Crawford to point B-NOLA and realized that he and his administration had let a whole city down? Definitely not! It's not the car, it's the soul driving the car that counts.
http://www.fuprius.net is better.
You guys are priceless. Talk about biting the hand that saves your dumb ass when you don't know which way to evacuate.
But I guess the Red Cross is a bunch of Republican gun-toting meat eating people trying to keep all of the *insert alleged plighted group here* down.
Lol.
Here in Texas I'm surrounded by these damn things...Hummers, Expeditions, F-350s, Suburbans and the like. What drives me really nuts is most often you see only a driver and no passengers in them.
Personally, I want to see gasoline at about double the current price, with that increase coming from a hefty tax to offset all the true costs of our dependence upon fossil fuels, rather than fattening up the good old boys running the oil companies.
Use that money to build decent public transportation and develop alternative and sustainable sources of energy!
Sigh @ 87:
Heh. The commercial that was the inspiration for a song...
"Hummers make the world's best gift
so ladies if you want to give your guy a lift
just give him one on Christmas Eve
and as you give, you shall receive..."
See: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=214396038032542747
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