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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 10:56 AM
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General Motors is stumped as to what to do with HUMMER. Me too.
No one could have imagined that the HUMMER product line was not going to make it. (Besides Condi perhaps)
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B3Nut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 10:58 AM
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1. Recycle 'em all.
The seats would make great desk chairs and lobby furniture. The rest can be melted down for materials to use to make more responsible vehicles. I'll take a couple chairs.... :D

Todd in Cheesecurdistan
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Dover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 11:00 AM
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2. Homeless shelters!!!
Just park them like a mobile home and provide bathrooms! They can feel safe in those things.
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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 11:01 AM
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5. OMG the same eact thing just occurred to me!?!? Just disable the engines
and park them in an area like a trailer park where water and sewer are available.
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Kalyke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 11:01 AM
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3. Recyle them. Duh.
Melt them down and reuse the metal. Retrofit the parts for other SUVs and trucks. I'm sure many of the parts are interchangeable anyway. Most factory line-assembled items are.

Donate some to charities in rural areas so that the employees can go out into the community and check on their cases (in some rural communities, the terrain is such that a four-wheel drive is necessary).

I can think of a lot of uses for them!
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 11:01 AM
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4. what ... there's not a war going on?
I guess that's the only place that can afford to buy them, now ... now that there's no half-off tax incentive for buying them ...
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 11:01 AM
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6. Quit production of them
That will keep any more of the ugly things from getting on the street, and dealers can get a financial shot in the arm by upping their prices on them since they're now collectors' items (and you can bet that some dopes will buy them based on that).

TlalocW
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 11:05 AM
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7. sell it to the chinese
i`m sure they will do a great job in redesigning them into a functional military vehicle. actually the hummer would probably be a good vehicle for civilian use in the countryside and remote ares of china. with a new generation diesel engine the hummer would be the ideal vehicle.
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 11:09 AM
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10. they already have a knock off version the Dongfeng EQ2050
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 11:06 AM
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8. It's funny when people get stumped about how to fix problem they themselves created.
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 11:07 AM
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9. Turn 'em all over to Mythbusters
And let them blow them up real good.
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Dover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 11:09 AM
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11. I sense another 'artificial reef' in the making off our coastline...n/t
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 11:15 AM
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12. Drop them on the super-rich
They make a nice splat.
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 11:38 AM
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13. crush them and shred them like they did to their electric car.
they didn't seem to have a problem then. Why a problem with this icon of stupid over indulgence?
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SlicerDicer- Donating Member (311 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 12:00 PM
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14. Buyback scheme with their tarp! Then smelt it down and make batteries or something.
Or how bout this GM just go away.
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