Top Gear Discovers Why The Hummer H2 Never Took Off In Europe: Video
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There are some cars that just do not make sense in Britain. The small island has relatively high fuel prices, a steep gas-guzzler tax, and — most of all — narrow roads. So it’s rather difficult for a lifelong Brit like Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson to see the point in the hulking Hummer H2. Surprisingly, though, the normally-harsh critic gave the H2 and its military-grade predecessor, the H1, a fair chance when reviewing them.
After driving them (and getting stuck) around a small town with narrow roads, Jeremy concludes that despite their gargantuan size and lackluster fuel economy (he got 1 MPG when accelerating, but who doesn’t?), Hummers “make you feel like you’re seven years old” — which is about as friendly as we’ve heard Clarkson describe an American car. Too bad they’re no longer around.
Check out his review in the video just below.
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It’s nothing to do with the car not being suitable for UK, more to do with tv viewing figures & entertainment. We have many vehicles as big & bigger than the Hummer here, not to mention trucks & buses all managing not to get stuck. I watch Top Gear every week, I enjoy the way it’s presented & the way they go about testing their vehicles to the extreme. The Hummer’s main fault is it’s LHD & (although not really my cup of tea, I’d much prefer a GMC Sierra) they did sell a few here.
LHD, size, price and MPG are all factors for the average driver.
There is just not enough market for most cars in LHD and that will always be a limiting factor in lower production vehicles. They do not want LHD anymore and we would RHD unless you are a mail carrier.
As they do have buses and trucks not everyone wants to be a bus driver or truck driver.
It was just not a vehicle designed for England and mass sales.
hes right, they are way too big and clumsy but it does make you feel cool, i want to own one one day but chances are that wont happen.
Top Gear has a great show, even the one in the US has gotten better. I loved the H1 (In the military I was a mechanic who worked on them), never cared for the H2, but did like the H3, especially the pick up version.
Slow news day huh?
The thing I found appalling was not that Clarkson was bashing on the H2; it deserves it. I found it appalling that he slammed on the Tahoe and even worse, called it a GMC Tahoe. Get the name right Clarkson! You’re in the business of knowing cars! He says every negative thing a person could say about a four-wheel-drive and directs it, undeservingly, at the Tahoe. Everything he said of the H2 was a remark that the H2 earned.
I personally wonder all the time what the hell GM was thinking with the H2. It was heavy, slow, big and had terrible fuel economy. For a much lower price you could get a Tahoe and any aftermarket kit you wanted to make it more capable off-road and still acheive all around better performance.
If I were GM I would have tried to make a capable, affordable 4×4 that was rugged and deserved the name Hummer. If they’d have done that there might’ve been a chance Hummer would be around today.
And also, you know this is an older Top Gear video not because it’s about the H2….but because of Clarkson’s hair.