gwax's rumblings

I hap­pened to be next to and then behind a brand spank­ing new H3 on Memorial Drive ear­lier today and I formed a few, mostly neg­a­tive, impres­sions on the thing. Ok, so first off, this thing doesn’t even look like a HMMWV any­more; the Hummer was a civil­ian­ized HMMWV and the H2 was a gen­tri­fied Hummer, but the H3 is a soc­cer mom SUV that’s styled to vaguely remind you of an H2. I’ll give you the most bla­tently stu­pid exam­ple of what I saw on the H3: on the back right of the thing, I saw a thick metal ring of the sort that you could hook chains to so as to pull a heavy load but when I looked for a match­ing ring on the left, I saw the license plate, which means the one on the right must be orna­men­tal. How retarded is the idea of an orna­men­tal heavy towwing ring? It’s not a nice or classy orna­ment; it basi­cally just says, “when you look at my truck I want you to think that I’d like to be able to tow really heavy stuff but will never actu­ally have any desire to do so”. This whole SUV as an image thing is just get­ting ridicu­lous; if you want to look hard­core, be hard­core, cut out this fuck­ing poser crap.

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