There are two types of Hummer haters: 1) The "pop-culture" lemmings who are stuck in 2008 listening to CNN tell the world Hummers are the cause of rising oil prices, and, 2) people who are jealous they don't have one.
Real wheelers are impressed to see Hummers used as they were intended to be done so. Morons blindly hate on them.
Examples from another 4x4 site where I posted wheeling pics:
Hater 1: your trucks says: "I bought my way into this trail" while other home-built/modified rigs say "I earned my way into this trail"
He followed my rebuttal with: well, if that mall crawler is your daily driver, then keep it away from the rocks, you might scratch the chrome.
Hater 2: The hate against your truck is basically from the same the same point as people have against Mac vs. PC. Everyone knows that you can build a more powerful PC for cheaper than you can build a powerful Mac. Same goes for wheeling rigs, I can go out and buy a beat up XJ for $1500 off a high school kid and throw another $2000 into it and go through everything your hummer can go through, it just won't be as pretty, and it will definitely be easier to fix.Basically, you're wheeling in a Macbook.
Hater 3: i would say it's more like...most people who have hummers have really expensive and nice computers with lots of graphics and computing power and **** (i don't know from computers), and all they do is read reddit or some ****...98% of these are mall crawlers.
that, and h2/h3 is a heap of ****. big, heavy, ifs, etc., which has been covered. but what does it come with for off-roading? a locker like a trd or rubi? skid plates? those shackles in the bumpers look pretty sweet, i guess...but they really aren't designed to go off-road. even the h1 is ****ty off-road, at least where i'm from. trails are too tight. the ride is ****ty. it's not comfortable. etc...
Hater 4: it is that bad. you're driving what was once a gmc colorado/chevy canyon...but it now has a ton of extra weight and **** slapped on the frame. yeah, it's nice...comfortable and ****. but it isn't for me. too big and bulky, too much plastic...your argument that it was "designed for moab" won't fly for me, because while a smaller rig like a jeep or toyota (older ones, mind you...new ones are meh. again, very nice but too big and plasticy) wasn't "designed for moab" they can obviously perform just fine there. your "narrow jeep trail" looks like a straight road with some rocks on it...is that an access road at rausch? boring.
let's face it...98% of the people who drive hummers don't wheel them. 98% of wheelers don't wheel them either! there has to be a reason for both...and that's why hummer's catch so much flack.
