Re: OT: Yuppie SUVs

From: Aaron Wyse (awyse@sw.rr.com)
Date: Fri Sep 19 2003 - 23:58:05 EDT


How else can Generic Motors convince anyone to pay 30 grand for an S10??
Style it after the Hummer, after all the Hummer was styled after the JEEP..
Hold it, a miniture Hummer.. Oh no.. GM is going to get thier own Jeep with
an S10 chassis.
Aaron Wyse

----- Original Message -----
From: "ronald bruce taylor,jr" <taylor9565@msn.com>
To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 10:34 PM
Subject: DML: Re: OT: Yuppie SUVs WAS: Porsche vs. the "PIT"

>
> I might be wrong, but I read somewhere the H2's suspension is based on the
> Chevy / GMC Truck 4x4 suspension.
>
> 50k is a lot for a rebodied Chevy pick up if that's true!
>
> The upcoming H3 is based off the replacement for the S series and it's
> priced in the 30-35k.
>
> Ron-
> 01' Dakota 3.9 4x4
> Street,Strip,and Show
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Pitz" <dakota@billpitz.com>
> To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 10:38 PM
> Subject: DML: OT: Yuppie SUVs WAS: Porsche vs. the "PIT"
>
>
> >
> > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:29:55 -0400, jbattles@bankfinancial.com ("Josh
> > Battles") wrote:
> > >You're right, the H2 is the ultimate yuppie mobile - except it must be
in
> > >yellow, not baby blue.
> > >
> > >This however, is different. This is a Porsche. Porsche's have never
> > >been
> > >trendy, so they don't qualify for the yuppie award. Also, from looking
> > >at
> > >the videos on the Porsche website, it looks like this vehicle is a real
> > >contender offroad. (I don't know about you, but I'd have a hard time
> > >taking
> > >$100,000 offroad.)
> >
> > I agree about that. $100k is a lotta money for something to take
> > offroad. It had better have self-healing paint for that price. :-)
> >
> > Anyway, here's something that I've always found interesting about the
> > H1 vs. H2...
> >
> > The H1 has a pricetag of ~100k and comes with less creature comforts
> > than the H2 (although they've added quite a few yuppie features to the
> > H1 recently). The H2 has all of the yuppie features and is still only
> > ~50k. There's got to be some seriously lacking heavy duty-ness of the
> > H2 suspension/chassis, IMO...
> >
> > -Bill
> >



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