Herbie isn't jealous. He's mocking Mr. Hummer who will soon be sleeping in a cardboard box on a street corner in nowhere town. GM will slowly cease production of the Hummer due to slumped sales. Surprised? Okay well when you come out of your little cave we'll tell you all about it and all about our little plan to elect the first black president of the United States who incidentally almost got beat out by a woman. Yes you missed a lot.
When Seb and I were car shopping earlier this year we had a good time test driving all the oversized SUV's and 4WD vehicles in all of the dealerships, just test driving them with no intentions of ever owning them of course. We both are car crazy and we follow the trends each year of what changes on which vehicle, pointing them out like excited schoolchildren. Me I'm American so it's in my culture to love cars, and it's in my family. I grew up with my parents always owning a classic car of some sort. We are all car freaks. Seb is in the industry so he follows these trends because it's part of his job, and he loves his job.
In our hearts though we are a down to earth French family. We could never own one of these gas slurping beasts with a clear conscience. In our search we had fun looking and playing with the gadgets, but in the end we chose the economical Honda because it was the best of the lot on mileage and emissions and it didn't look like we were preparing for Armageddon when we drove it. We were not the least bit regretful for the Jeep we'd briefly looked at or any of the other Type A pseudo military sport utility trucks. It was just amusing to look at these soon to be dinosaurs (uh, fueled ironically by dinosaurs...) but we had no intentions of parking one in our driveway.
The Hummer is the most ridiculous car on our planet. I'm sure one day future generations will look back and say "my God they were trying to end humanity--just look at that car!" In our neighborhood lots of wealthy Mexicans own them and it seems to us like a case of he who has the biggest toys wins. Soon it will more likely be about he who can sell their big toy and recoup one quarter of its value wins. This car is headed for the scrapheap *applause*.
(I hope these closing won't leave too many families out in the cold. It looks pretty bleak for the 8,000 people who work in these plants.)
4 comments:
Here! Here!
In Texas, where TRUCKS rule, people can't get rid of them fast enough. They're all showing up wiht for sale signs.
Me? Proud owner of a Honda Civic Hybrid since 2004. Not minding a bit filling up my tank these days. Every 600 miles.
ps - love that juxtapostion in the photo. It's funny how the old bugs are still around after so many years. But the hummer? Well...may it die a fast death.
Well gas is still cheap in Mexico so maybe the Hummer will stick around here a little longer.
I was wanting to get a picture of the Hummer dealership anyway and i got lucky with the bug parking right there.
I love reading your blog! Your posts are always so incredibly witty and interesting and dead on RIGHT!!!
I didn't know that the hummer was on its way out... you have no idea how glad I am about this. That car just seemed WRONG! BIG, BULKY and LOOKING LIKE A WAR TANK??? What is wrong with us people??
Anyway, the herby pics are sooooo cute and pretty and of poster-marking quality! You definetly have an eye to capture beauty in things most of us overlook.
I'm going to miss your pretty pictures and posts on Mexico, but can't wait to see the ones you'll be making of Paris once you're all settled. I'm sure they will be just as inspiring !
Fned.
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