In 2000 as a highschooler I got to ride in a hummer offroad on some rough terrain driving course along with my JROTC and that shit locked up more than one of us to sign papers. It was fricking dope. But hey, we weren't living out of it while being being shot at, and we were at peace.
It’s going to cost more than that once bidders start rolling in at the endZ
It will have a high buyers premium, not to mention it will be far away, so you’ll pay a lot to sip it or even just hauling it on a trailer yourself.
It will cost a lot to make it not only road legal but will take a lot of modification to make it a half decent vehicle to drive, not to mention any maintenance it will already need.
Then you’ll be dealing with piss poor gas milage for a truck with not much usage aside from being a frick around for fun car.
Broken parts won’t be easily replaced and fixing it will be a b***h due to it being designed differently from regular automotive machines.
Uncomfortable to drive
Unsafe
Gas hog
Shit visibility
All torque no acceleration
Almost certainly fricked to death by the military before it ever got put up for auction, and will be a project that fills you with hatred which you'll never finish.
> Almost certainly fricked to death by the military before it ever got put up for auction, and will be a project that fills you with hatred which you'll never finish.
Nailed it. I knew one guy that bought one. He grew to hate it b/c it required so much work to keep on road.
They are also super wide and so hard to drive on roads anyway.
Anyone who owns a humveee owns it as a toy, whether it's in the US, or Europe.
It's not a practical vehicle. For it's weight it doesn't have a high towing capacity.
It's usability as a daily is limited, it doesn't behave very well on the highway.
I quite honestly don't get the butthurt eurangutan take in this discussion.
> toy
This. If I owned a ranch with a full shop and 100's of acres, I'd own the Humvee just to bomb around property. They get like 4 MPG and are not very reliable. They are insane offroad tho.
https://i.imgur.com/Aw2XTmu.jpg
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Ok! Thought they were banned in the US, must have been an urban legend. The volvo looks dope !
Btw how are jeep willys ? Almost got one at some point but didn’t. Should I regret ?
Any Jeep would be a better "investment" than a Humvee. Easier to maintain, easier to sell.
>They are insane offroad tho.
They're pretty capable but they're nothing awesome. They're heavy as shit, they don't have lockers, the power:weight ratio makes them get stuck easily in mud and sand, and they're too wide for many trails. I'm not Jeepgay but honestly a lightly modded XJ is more offroad capable than a hummer. It's not going to carry anywhere near the weight but it will go places the hummer won't.
I unironically do ride an eBike. Cope and seethe how I can go anywhere in my cute European livable city with no traffic jams, no parking trouble, no costs.
biking is fine, insufferable urbanite homosexuals like you are not, go frick yourself for making the rest of the world think majority of us are like you.
You're around Europeans every day and you still don't believe that one can be this much of an insufferable homosexual? Where in Europe do you live?
central (eastern for you) europe
1 year ago
Anonymous
Noo, the rest of the world might think all of Europe is clean, livable and mindful of the environment. Glad to see traitorous filth like you drags us down.
every time some homosexual europoor opens his mouth about american cars, I add another inch of lift
We have big roads, big cars, big homes, big bellies, big burgers, and big dicks. >Verification not required
>instead of a human sized car
your b***h basic europid cuckmobile like a skoda octavia mk4 your dad drives to work is 10 cm longer than the hummer so shut your nafri mouth and stop posting
You're not alone there. A year or two ago I popped in a new memory card and made a new save. Playing that on a ~30" Trinitron is amazing; flatscreens just don't do it justice (nor do their shitty tinny speakers). The music will make the junk on your shelves rattle if you're not careful with the volume on those Trinitrons, kek. I should continue playing; I had just unlocked the McLaren and bought it. There were so many good PS2 games that had amazing sequel after amazing sequel I haven't played in years. Midnight Club, Jak (and the amazing racing game, X), SSX (even On Tour), Burnout, Tony Hawk's, you name it. Still have most of my childhood saves; beware Vewtiful Joe demo and IIRC Enter The Dragonfly (Spyro); they corrupt whole memory cards. Vewtiful Joe demo outright and Enter The Dragonfly on infinite load screen glitches. I remember THAW once froze while saving and a couple months later I basically speedran the whole story and remade my character just as I had when it came out (which wasn't long before that). My eyes burned afterwards I had played so long, kek.
Or I guess I could just post the playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2upEFEREDHtu7neMze8Pg8k2cnpprP5u
I have quite the prejudice against that series. Erased my whole damn memory card, that stupid fricking demo. Never ever leave a memory card in if you're not using it, lesson learned. I should really buy something to back my saves up these days; IIRC I even have old PS1 saves from around 2000-2004, stuck in time.
>instead of a human sized car
your b***h basic europid cuckmobile like a skoda octavia mk4 your dad drives to work is 10 cm longer than the hummer so shut your nafri mouth and stop posting
>So it's the same size as your car but guzzles about a quarter of the petrol?
It's actually a four wheel drive off road patrol vehicle on portal axles that cat seat 4 with a machinegun turret on the top and capable of towing 2 metric tons, so when you consider the fact that it still manages to be shorter than the average eurocuck ahmed mobile with it's 1.0 litre turbo 3 cylinder even funnier.
>Petrol is what you morons call gas, except humans with education know gas isn't liquid.
its a diesel.
non-cucked vehicles run on diesel
Sigh. You're still a Black person but fair point. Doesn't it actually run on multi fuel?
It's a nice vehicle after all, but like guns completely insane for normal civilian use unless you're in one extremely specialised field where you regularly need those capabilities.
Like if I'd need to haul some furniture, once a year, I can rent a van for hundred bucks and save literal thousands over the year by not hauling 2 unnecessary tons of steel everywhere I go.
Anyone who owns a humveee owns it as a toy, whether it's in the US, or Europe.
It's not a practical vehicle. For it's weight it doesn't have a high towing capacity.
It's usability as a daily is limited, it doesn't behave very well on the highway.
I quite honestly don't get the butthurt eurangutan take in this discussion.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>I quite honestly don't get the butthurt eurangutan take in this discussion.
They're honestly just jealous that their gas is $8/gallon, their roads are narrow and shitty, and that there isn't anywhere interesting that they can drive and it not just still be europe. Every European I've met that comes to America loves the open roads, cheap gas, and landscapes that their cucked metropolitan can't hold a candle to.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Sorry for being educated and knowing global warming exists.
Then again, most good places in Europe are cool, so they will merely become warm. While in America the trumpBlack folk mostly live in the hot south so they will burn to death.
>gas, but actually liquid >short for [bastardized surname of a literally who from Britain] >food is turned to shit in the intestines, so we should just call food "shit" instead
You eat shit everyday, don't you, anon?
Because America used to have plenty of room for it but now the places with the high paying jobs are becoming overpopulated and the luxuries we once enjoyed are slowly going out the window.
Inferiority complex requires us to constantly buy new things in an attempt to be like the Hollywood characters we want to be. It never works and so we must consoom more.
the humvee may be shit, but that doesn't mean you aren't the biggest homosexual to ever walk this earth.
yours truly a europoor who dailies a 1.6litre miata
Not quite. It's actually worse. It's more like high witchcraft in most states to successfully register one. Their are forums with infinite info on this. Sometimes it literally comes down to who is working at the county treasurers office on the day you try. Or other trivial shit like the number of digits in the serial number, or if it has a highway safety certificate.
There are tons of stories where guys in the same state buy basically the exact same hmvee and one is successful and one is not.
The premium on a registered hymvee is around 10 grand. By that I mean one that sells at auction on govplanet for 5k would, in identical condition but with a title, go for 15k on the classifieds.
sounds like importing cars from japan, at least around 10 years or so ago when it was a real roll of the dice if the import company would even get you the car you'd actually ordered, customs would raid your sketchily imported shipping container and crush the car all at your own loss, or dmvs heads would explode because the vin wasnt long enough.
Ofc even a $5k 30 yo jap import shitbox is going to be a million times better than any vehicle the military has ever touched or done 'maintenance' on
Oh, Defenders are a thing in US, but they're usually more of a rich trust fund kid sort of thing rather than something that the off-road or military crowd is interested in. Same with the G-Wagen. You're more likely to see one of those outside a nightclub than actually off-road here.
Ok! Thought they were banned in the US, must have been an urban legend. The volvo looks dope !
Btw how are jeep willys ? Almost got one at some point but didn’t. Should I regret ?
You can get a mahendra roxor and make it street legal. Look it up. It’s a brand new made willys jeep with a small diesel motor. They cost about $15,000 starting out if I remember correctly. I almost bought one but picked up a Honda Rancher 4x4 quad instead cause I grew up on quads
I've only ever seen them for sale for $25k plus. They make no sense. They compete with side by sides but are less capable and look like a shitty Willy's knockoff with bad proportions.
Buy a sxs if that's what you need or buy a bronco/jeep/whatever if you actually want a street legal offroader
>look like a shitty Willy's knockoff
you can thank fiatchrysler for that. mahindra has had a license directly from willys to make jeeps since the 40s but the homosexuals at fca/jeep (a brand that has not existed nearly as long) sued them over the look of the car, especially the grille. when the roxor (lame 90s leetspeak name lmao @ pajeets) first came out it was a dead ringer for a classic willys jeep and that plus the cheap price made fca shit their collective pants
k >Thought they were banned in the US
Not quite, but since Land Rover let the federalization lapse on the Defender in 1997, they became subject to the "chicken tax" 20 year import ban, which means that if you import a Land Rover Defender that was made after 2002 (or whatever would have been 20 years before the date of import), and the feds find it, they'll crush it.
Oh, Defenders are a thing in US, but they're usually more of a rich trust fund kid sort of thing rather than something that the off-road or military crowd is interested in. Same with the G-Wagen. You're more likely to see one of those outside a nightclub than actually off-road here.
Mercedes hasn't sold proper utilitarian G-Wagens for consumers for couple decades. Only stupid luxury ones with petrol V8's or V12's. Practical G-Wagens are only sold military, other authorities and corporate users like utility companies. They may throw a fit if corporate client sells their utility G-Wagens on 2nd hand market too soon.
Apparently sometimes older Mercedes cars are outright given away, simply because its too fricking expensive to maintain them year after year
>Apparently sometimes older Mercedes cars are outright given away, simply because its too fricking expensive to maintain them year after year
This is why you see broke ass black guys driving 20 year old Mercedes all the time. The resale value is absolute shit because nobody wants to pay to fix their problems. So black guys buy them for $5,000 and drive them until they die 8 months later. But they pretend they are rich while doing it.
https://i.imgur.com/UZfVkm4.jpg
I should do that with my Mercedes all I got to do is put in a new transmission and window motor on it give it a wash and hope someone is dumb enough to finally take out of my driveway.
German engineering is a meme don't fall for it bros.
https://i.imgur.com/US42eKy.jpg
Last place I'd thought I'd see people slagging Merc off but yeah. I used to sell these cars and I know I wouldn't be able prove it but I honestly now think they're the worst brand. They've always been unreliable, electrics always seem to be a pain but people still go and fall for the 3-pointed star (most of the time you're getting a Renault engine now too).
People rag on Range Rovers for being bottom of the pack for reliability but I think if Mercedes didn't have their finger on the pulse for recalls (which there were a SHIT-TON of) they'd be considered worse. Range Rovers at least have a feeling of warmth and solidness inside too. Mercs have the most soulless collage of black plastic and faux leather seats, they remain new-looking and eye-catching for all of six months before looking like any other commuter box on the road.
Really old Mercs is what gained their reputation for being near indestructible, that reputation doesn't apply to Mercs made since late 90's or early 2000's. With possible exception of surplus G-Wagens. Merc went to shit when they, just like every other manufacturer started adding more electronics to their cars.
Since I'm likely quite a bit older than majority of posters. Here is a tip for kids. Stupidest possible car to buy as teenager or in early 20's is old luxury or sports car, something around 15 to 20 years old, when it is at rock bottom of prices for those. That kind of car is just as expensive to maintain as it was when it was new or new equivalent model would be. All modern cars, applies to even those about 15 to 20 year old ones, are seriously care free and require rather little maintenance, but that 15 to 20 years when shit really starts to wear out and major work on engine and transmission is required. Those 15 year old cars are already so complicated that average guy can't do most maintenance on those.
>Apparently sometimes older Mercedes cars are outright given away, simply because its too fricking expensive to maintain them year after year
This is why you see broke ass black guys driving 20 year old Mercedes all the time. The resale value is absolute shit because nobody wants to pay to fix their problems. So black guys buy them for $5,000 and drive them until they die 8 months later. But they pretend they are rich while doing it.
I should do that with my Mercedes all I got to do is put in a new transmission and window motor on it give it a wash and hope someone is dumb enough to finally take out of my driveway.
German engineering is a meme don't fall for it bros.
Last place I'd thought I'd see people slagging Merc off but yeah. I used to sell these cars and I know I wouldn't be able prove it but I honestly now think they're the worst brand. They've always been unreliable, electrics always seem to be a pain but people still go and fall for the 3-pointed star (most of the time you're getting a Renault engine now too).
People rag on Range Rovers for being bottom of the pack for reliability but I think if Mercedes didn't have their finger on the pulse for recalls (which there were a SHIT-TON of) they'd be considered worse. Range Rovers at least have a feeling of warmth and solidness inside too. Mercs have the most soulless collage of black plastic and faux leather seats, they remain new-looking and eye-catching for all of six months before looking like any other commuter box on the road.
Have you ever had to drive or ride in one for an extended period of time? If you’re a richgay and are going to be using it as a hunting truck or something, then maybe, but outside of that, the cool factor isn’t worth how uncomfortable those are and how much you’ll spend on maintenance
Don't get me wrong OP, they're super cool but don't expect that truck to go for 4k. If it runs, with low miles or low engine hours it's going to go for a lot more.
>If you buy, don't drive it 1500 miles, you'll regret it. >have that b***h delivered.
It isn't road legal and borderline impossible to get it registered and road legal. It is in the contract when you buy it... >NOW, THEREFORE, intending to be legally bound, with respect to Buyer’s ownership
and retrieval of the Humvee from the Premises, Buyer does hereby agree as follows: >1. Buyer acknowledges that the Humvee is not roadworthy and agrees that Humvee is for
off-highway use only.
My cousin had one when he was slinging rock in 2008. motherfricker went broke filling the tank, flamed out and lost his house, ended up in rehab,
Ever since then, the hummer has been permanently associated with druggie losers that fail in life in my brain.
So take that FWIW
That from iron planet? I've bought machinery from them. They have good deals...if you want to travel to the other side of the country to pick your item up.
Not always. Sometimes the govt sells off perfectly fine things only because they got granted money to replace it. The agency recieving that money spends it instead of telling them that they don't need it because their stuff is still good. The fear is that if they turn it down, they set the precedent that they either can make their stuff last far longer than it's supposed to or that they'll only need a fraction of the money the next time because they didn't need it this time.
Saw a privately owned humvee on the road today.
Majestic bastard.
If you're rich uncle pennybags and love the b***h, follow your dreams. I would.
Or maybe a pinzgaur or a sugga, it's all going to be frick you in the ass expensive
>like 8mpg >have to regularly check bolts on the half shafts to make sure they aren't coming out >have to uninstall entire caliper to change some brake pads >parts aren't as standardized for civilian market >loud as frick >can be stolen by anybody who knows how to flip a switch >body wiring harness is a nightmare to change and will fail eventually >seats uncomfy as frick >no sound system >AC is hit or miss >can't lock the doors >doesn't willingly go above 60mph >driven by multiple ass hats who thought "lol I don't have to fix anything that breaks" >wide as frick >the mirrors suck >hood opens forward, so you have to climb on top when filling oil >AC Condenser is under the rear tire, meaning you have to jack the vehicle up and remove the wheel if it needs serviced
There's more, but I think this should suffice for now. This being said, I might get one for my teen brother because they're cheap and he can learn basic mechanics from it
>Terrible reliability, >Fuel economy (I know you're not expecting a prius but come on. 4-5mpg??) >Horrifically slow, yes even for its size and weight >Horrific to ride in, yes even for its size and weight
On top of all this, despite their size, the actual amount of room you get inside is shockingly bad. You'd expect SUV-level legroom but the transmission tunnel is so enormous that rear legroom is non-existent. The drivers legroom is bad and the driver's experience as a whole is cramped and one of many gauges, many cheap utilitarian buttons, stalks, sticks and handles.
If you bought this, you'd ride it around and have the time of your life with the adjustable tires until you realise everything I said above was true. The sheer discomfort of sitting in this thing, listening to that yelling piece of shit engine and praying that another injector doesn't clog, another pipe doesn't blow and the gears keep working will overshadow any enjoyment.
Just buy a land cruiser and you will be much happier
Just IMAGINE owning that piece of shit instead of a Suzuki Jimny with a 0.6 L turbocharged motor that's not only more capable than your pigfat shitbox, but also efficient qt af.
Only $30k to get it to start when you want.
long way to drive
it's loud as shit on the interior, maintenance will suck, and your gas mileage will not exist
cool for range days I bet though
>Gas mileage
No carz
post bread
>it's loud as shit
That's the sound of DEMOCRACY you goddamn communist
The US is a constitutional republic. A democracy is a direct antithesis to a free populace.
The US is a democracy, power ultimately comes from the populace.
wrong
Do it homosexual.
>Breaks down
>Gives you cancer
>cums in your mouth
>Snaps your neck when hitting a pothole
>Dies
sounds like my husband
Do it you fricking mother. Do it and then post it with a timestamp.
Good down to your local National Guard Armory and tell them you'll enlist if they let you ride in a Humvee. Should open your eyes
In 2000 as a highschooler I got to ride in a hummer offroad on some rough terrain driving course along with my JROTC and that shit locked up more than one of us to sign papers. It was fricking dope. But hey, we weren't living out of it while being being shot at, and we were at peace.
It’s going to cost more than that once bidders start rolling in at the endZ
It will have a high buyers premium, not to mention it will be far away, so you’ll pay a lot to sip it or even just hauling it on a trailer yourself.
It will cost a lot to make it not only road legal but will take a lot of modification to make it a half decent vehicle to drive, not to mention any maintenance it will already need.
Then you’ll be dealing with piss poor gas milage for a truck with not much usage aside from being a frick around for fun car.
Broken parts won’t be easily replaced and fixing it will be a b***h due to it being designed differently from regular automotive machines.
Only been blown up once
Uncomfortable to drive
Unsafe
Gas hog
Shit visibility
All torque no acceleration
Almost certainly fricked to death by the military before it ever got put up for auction, and will be a project that fills you with hatred which you'll never finish.
Anon nailed it.
> Almost certainly fricked to death by the military before it ever got put up for auction, and will be a project that fills you with hatred which you'll never finish.
Nailed it. I knew one guy that bought one. He grew to hate it b/c it required so much work to keep on road.
They are also super wide and so hard to drive on roads anyway.
> toy
This. If I owned a ranch with a full shop and 100's of acres, I'd own the Humvee just to bomb around property. They get like 4 MPG and are not very reliable. They are insane offroad tho.
Any Jeep would be a better "investment" than a Humvee. Easier to maintain, easier to sell.
>They are insane offroad tho.
They're pretty capable but they're nothing awesome. They're heavy as shit, they don't have lockers, the power:weight ratio makes them get stuck easily in mud and sand, and they're too wide for many trails. I'm not Jeepgay but honestly a lightly modded XJ is more offroad capable than a hummer. It's not going to carry anywhere near the weight but it will go places the hummer won't.
Why do Americans have such small penises that they drive something like this instead of a human sized car?
found the eurogay who rides a bike
I unironically do ride an eBike. Cope and seethe how I can go anywhere in my cute European livable city with no traffic jams, no parking trouble, no costs.
I ride a bike to work and also have a big SUV and a pickup for road trips and hauling all my shit around, so suck it europoor.
You seem like the kind of person who would ride it without a seat, if you know what I mean.
how big is your seat dildo?
i refuse to believe this isn't a falseflag
>t. euro
Netherlands and northern Germany are based bike riding areas, moron. Go back to living in shitty southern areas of either the US or Europe.
biking is fine, insufferable urbanite homosexuals like you are not, go frick yourself for making the rest of the world think majority of us are like you.
central (eastern for you) europe
Noo, the rest of the world might think all of Europe is clean, livable and mindful of the environment. Glad to see traitorous filth like you drags us down.
Skocz mi na chuja, wieśniaku.
ah, a pole. how's that river doing again?
You're around Europeans every day and you still don't believe that one can be this much of an insufferable homosexual? Where in Europe do you live?
I live in a "bike friendly green city" in europe which gets choked with cars every day and you're still a homosexual
we will devour you
clockwork
>eurogay who rides a bike
That's me unironically. I would still buy a humvee in a heartbeat if I could get one.
every time some homosexual europoor opens his mouth about american cars, I add another inch of lift
>ill make my car drive worse everytime im seething about eurobeans
you ok bro?
We have big roads, big cars, big homes, big bellies, big burgers, and big dicks.
>Verification not required
>house real big
>cars real big
>belly real big
Okay, Mannie Fresh.
>you are now remembering playing midnight club on the PS2
>This was almost 20 years ago
I want to go back to childhood
You're not alone there. A year or two ago I popped in a new memory card and made a new save. Playing that on a ~30" Trinitron is amazing; flatscreens just don't do it justice (nor do their shitty tinny speakers). The music will make the junk on your shelves rattle if you're not careful with the volume on those Trinitrons, kek. I should continue playing; I had just unlocked the McLaren and bought it. There were so many good PS2 games that had amazing sequel after amazing sequel I haven't played in years. Midnight Club, Jak (and the amazing racing game, X), SSX (even On Tour), Burnout, Tony Hawk's, you name it. Still have most of my childhood saves; beware Vewtiful Joe demo and IIRC Enter The Dragonfly (Spyro); they corrupt whole memory cards. Vewtiful Joe demo outright and Enter The Dragonfly on infinite load screen glitches. I remember THAW once froze while saving and a couple months later I basically speedran the whole story and remade my character just as I had when it came out (which wasn't long before that). My eyes burned afterwards I had played so long, kek.
Or I guess I could just post the playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2upEFEREDHtu7neMze8Pg8k2cnpprP5u
>Vewtiful Joe
wew lad the feels
I have quite the prejudice against that series. Erased my whole damn memory card, that stupid fricking demo. Never ever leave a memory card in if you're not using it, lesson learned. I should really buy something to back my saves up these days; IIRC I even have old PS1 saves from around 2000-2004, stuck in time.
>instead of a human sized car
your b***h basic europid cuckmobile like a skoda octavia mk4 your dad drives to work is 10 cm longer than the hummer so shut your nafri mouth and stop posting
So it's the same size as your car but guzzles about a quarter of the petrol?
Petrol is what you morons call gas, except humans with education know gas isn't liquid.
>So it's the same size as your car but guzzles about a quarter of the petrol?
It's actually a four wheel drive off road patrol vehicle on portal axles that cat seat 4 with a machinegun turret on the top and capable of towing 2 metric tons, so when you consider the fact that it still manages to be shorter than the average eurocuck ahmed mobile with it's 1.0 litre turbo 3 cylinder even funnier.
>Petrol is what you morons call gas, except humans with education know gas isn't liquid.
its a diesel.
non-cucked vehicles run on diesel
Sigh. You're still a Black person but fair point. Doesn't it actually run on multi fuel?
It's a nice vehicle after all, but like guns completely insane for normal civilian use unless you're in one extremely specialised field where you regularly need those capabilities.
Like if I'd need to haul some furniture, once a year, I can rent a van for hundred bucks and save literal thousands over the year by not hauling 2 unnecessary tons of steel everywhere I go.
Anyone who owns a humveee owns it as a toy, whether it's in the US, or Europe.
It's not a practical vehicle. For it's weight it doesn't have a high towing capacity.
It's usability as a daily is limited, it doesn't behave very well on the highway.
I quite honestly don't get the butthurt eurangutan take in this discussion.
>I quite honestly don't get the butthurt eurangutan take in this discussion.
They're honestly just jealous that their gas is $8/gallon, their roads are narrow and shitty, and that there isn't anywhere interesting that they can drive and it not just still be europe. Every European I've met that comes to America loves the open roads, cheap gas, and landscapes that their cucked metropolitan can't hold a candle to.
Sorry for being educated and knowing global warming exists.
Then again, most good places in Europe are cool, so they will merely become warm. While in America the trumpBlack folk mostly live in the hot south so they will burn to death.
easily solved with the application of more energy
>a four wheel drive off road patrol vehicle on portal axles that cat seat 4 with a machinegun turret on the top
>and capable of towing 2 metric tons
>gas
>short for gasoline
>used in engines that turn it into gas
its not hard to understand
>gas, but actually liquid
>short for [bastardized surname of a literally who from Britain]
>food is turned to shit in the intestines, so we should just call food "shit" instead
You eat shit everyday, don't you, anon?
>we'll call it petrol because it comes from petroleum!
Excuse me while I make myself a nice bit of carbon for dinner
Its a freedom thing, as a Europoor you wouldn't understand.
This is no doubt owned by some fat boomer who couldn't throw a punch to save his life
Because America used to have plenty of room for it but now the places with the high paying jobs are becoming overpopulated and the luxuries we once enjoyed are slowly going out the window.
because why not?
Inferiority complex requires us to constantly buy new things in an attempt to be like the Hollywood characters we want to be. It never works and so we must consoom more.
We have a big boy country with big boy roads, and big boy vehicles. You wouldn't understand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugezIlOgdLo
americans aren't human sized that's why
Imagine being this jealous of the most heavily subverted and corrupt major nation outside of Russia
the humvee may be shit, but that doesn't mean you aren't the biggest homosexual to ever walk this earth.
yours truly a europoor who dailies a 1.6litre miata
Aren't these sold with a stipulation that they can never be made street-legal?
Not quite. It's actually worse. It's more like high witchcraft in most states to successfully register one. Their are forums with infinite info on this. Sometimes it literally comes down to who is working at the county treasurers office on the day you try. Or other trivial shit like the number of digits in the serial number, or if it has a highway safety certificate.
There are tons of stories where guys in the same state buy basically the exact same hmvee and one is successful and one is not.
The premium on a registered hymvee is around 10 grand. By that I mean one that sells at auction on govplanet for 5k would, in identical condition but with a title, go for 15k on the classifieds.
sounds like importing cars from japan, at least around 10 years or so ago when it was a real roll of the dice if the import company would even get you the car you'd actually ordered, customs would raid your sketchily imported shipping container and crush the car all at your own loss, or dmvs heads would explode because the vin wasnt long enough.
Ofc even a $5k 30 yo jap import shitbox is going to be a million times better than any vehicle the military has ever touched or done 'maintenance' on
Go ahead. They're easy to resell for a profit because they're famous.
You can experience it virtually via this video:
damn, working on cars is so fun. I hate being apartementcuck.
Burgers are just mad they can’t get the more stylish yet just as shit europoor equivalent
We can, we don't want to. The only 'impractical Eurogay military car' I'd want would be a Volvo
Ok! Thought they were banned in the US, must have been an urban legend. The volvo looks dope !
Btw how are jeep willys ? Almost got one at some point but didn’t. Should I regret ?
You can get a mahendra roxor and make it street legal. Look it up. It’s a brand new made willys jeep with a small diesel motor. They cost about $15,000 starting out if I remember correctly. I almost bought one but picked up a Honda Rancher 4x4 quad instead cause I grew up on quads
I've only ever seen them for sale for $25k plus. They make no sense. They compete with side by sides but are less capable and look like a shitty Willy's knockoff with bad proportions.
Buy a sxs if that's what you need or buy a bronco/jeep/whatever if you actually want a street legal offroader
>look like a shitty Willy's knockoff
you can thank fiatchrysler for that. mahindra has had a license directly from willys to make jeeps since the 40s but the homosexuals at fca/jeep (a brand that has not existed nearly as long) sued them over the look of the car, especially the grille. when the roxor (lame 90s leetspeak name lmao @ pajeets) first came out it was a dead ringer for a classic willys jeep and that plus the cheap price made fca shit their collective pants
That's an M38, not the WW2 era willy's jeep.
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>Thought they were banned in the US
Not quite, but since Land Rover let the federalization lapse on the Defender in 1997, they became subject to the "chicken tax" 20 year import ban, which means that if you import a Land Rover Defender that was made after 2002 (or whatever would have been 20 years before the date of import), and the feds find it, they'll crush it.
Oh, Defenders are a thing in US, but they're usually more of a rich trust fund kid sort of thing rather than something that the off-road or military crowd is interested in. Same with the G-Wagen. You're more likely to see one of those outside a nightclub than actually off-road here.
Mercedes hasn't sold proper utilitarian G-Wagens for consumers for couple decades. Only stupid luxury ones with petrol V8's or V12's. Practical G-Wagens are only sold military, other authorities and corporate users like utility companies. They may throw a fit if corporate client sells their utility G-Wagens on 2nd hand market too soon.
Really old Mercs is what gained their reputation for being near indestructible, that reputation doesn't apply to Mercs made since late 90's or early 2000's. With possible exception of surplus G-Wagens. Merc went to shit when they, just like every other manufacturer started adding more electronics to their cars.
Since I'm likely quite a bit older than majority of posters. Here is a tip for kids. Stupidest possible car to buy as teenager or in early 20's is old luxury or sports car, something around 15 to 20 years old, when it is at rock bottom of prices for those. That kind of car is just as expensive to maintain as it was when it was new or new equivalent model would be. All modern cars, applies to even those about 15 to 20 year old ones, are seriously care free and require rather little maintenance, but that 15 to 20 years when shit really starts to wear out and major work on engine and transmission is required. Those 15 year old cars are already so complicated that average guy can't do most maintenance on those.
>that tacky diamond pattern stainless steel trim
>Defender
lol. good look trying to hit a tree in that piece of shit going 50 mp/h.
i have never driven anything with a more wobbly and unprecise suspension and steering.
prob a detroit diesel with a cracked block or one that will crack soon, i dunno if they really ever solved that problem before that year
they really just look cooler than they are
Apparently sometimes older Mercedes cars are outright given away, simply because its too fricking expensive to maintain them year after year
>Apparently sometimes older Mercedes cars are outright given away, simply because its too fricking expensive to maintain them year after year
This is why you see broke ass black guys driving 20 year old Mercedes all the time. The resale value is absolute shit because nobody wants to pay to fix their problems. So black guys buy them for $5,000 and drive them until they die 8 months later. But they pretend they are rich while doing it.
I should do that with my Mercedes all I got to do is put in a new transmission and window motor on it give it a wash and hope someone is dumb enough to finally take out of my driveway.
German engineering is a meme don't fall for it bros.
Yeah, that's a piece of shit, but THIS
Mein Gott, just look at it.
Last place I'd thought I'd see people slagging Merc off but yeah. I used to sell these cars and I know I wouldn't be able prove it but I honestly now think they're the worst brand. They've always been unreliable, electrics always seem to be a pain but people still go and fall for the 3-pointed star (most of the time you're getting a Renault engine now too).
People rag on Range Rovers for being bottom of the pack for reliability but I think if Mercedes didn't have their finger on the pulse for recalls (which there were a SHIT-TON of) they'd be considered worse. Range Rovers at least have a feeling of warmth and solidness inside too. Mercs have the most soulless collage of black plastic and faux leather seats, they remain new-looking and eye-catching for all of six months before looking like any other commuter box on the road.
>$4k
That thing is beat to shit with an engine that's beyond shot and a bent frame.
Its most definitely beat to shit if its that cheap, I can guarantee it.
That's just the auction starting price.
Have you ever had to drive or ride in one for an extended period of time? If you’re a richgay and are going to be using it as a hunting truck or something, then maybe, but outside of that, the cool factor isn’t worth how uncomfortable those are and how much you’ll spend on maintenance
That's just the starting price, if the HMMWV is in good condition the boomers will pump that baby up to like $15k or more.
Don't get me wrong OP, they're super cool but don't expect that truck to go for 4k. If it runs, with low miles or low engine hours it's going to go for a lot more.
>Someone talk me out of it.
budget like 20k for a duramax conversion. humvee engines are dogshit
>Someone talk me out of it.
Because it's not the up-armored variant
frick that. those things are trash that puts the outright garbage that is the stock hummer to shame.
If you buy, don't drive it 1500 miles, you'll regret it.
have that b***h delivered.
>If you buy, don't drive it 1500 miles, you'll regret it.
>have that b***h delivered.
It isn't road legal and borderline impossible to get it registered and road legal. It is in the contract when you buy it...
>NOW, THEREFORE, intending to be legally bound, with respect to Buyer’s ownership
and retrieval of the Humvee from the Premises, Buyer does hereby agree as follows:
>1. Buyer acknowledges that the Humvee is not roadworthy and agrees that Humvee is for
off-highway use only.
My cousin had one when he was slinging rock in 2008. motherfricker went broke filling the tank, flamed out and lost his house, ended up in rehab,
Ever since then, the hummer has been permanently associated with druggie losers that fail in life in my brain.
So take that FWIW
I'm a little girl. Please let me sit shotgun in your new HUMVEE anon. I want a bumpy ride.
That from iron planet? I've bought machinery from them. They have good deals...if you want to travel to the other side of the country to pick your item up.
You don't want it OP. Whenever the govt auctions something it's because it's completely worn out and used to shit.
You're looking at tens of thousands in repairs and questionable access to parts. No A/C either.
Not always. Sometimes the govt sells off perfectly fine things only because they got granted money to replace it. The agency recieving that money spends it instead of telling them that they don't need it because their stuff is still good. The fear is that if they turn it down, they set the precedent that they either can make their stuff last far longer than it's supposed to or that they'll only need a fraction of the money the next time because they didn't need it this time.
True but 9 times out of 10 it's been used to shit
You'll regret it. This is one of those nostalgia things, its cooler in your memory than it is in reality.
Where in Texas? I'll buy it and ship it to you one piece at a time...
Forgot pic.
Would it cost him a dime?
Saw a privately owned humvee on the road today.
Majestic bastard.
If you're rich uncle pennybags and love the b***h, follow your dreams. I would.
Or maybe a pinzgaur or a sugga, it's all going to be frick you in the ass expensive
>like 8mpg
>have to regularly check bolts on the half shafts to make sure they aren't coming out
>have to uninstall entire caliper to change some brake pads
>parts aren't as standardized for civilian market
>loud as frick
>can be stolen by anybody who knows how to flip a switch
>body wiring harness is a nightmare to change and will fail eventually
>seats uncomfy as frick
>no sound system
>AC is hit or miss
>can't lock the doors
>doesn't willingly go above 60mph
>driven by multiple ass hats who thought "lol I don't have to fix anything that breaks"
>wide as frick
>the mirrors suck
>hood opens forward, so you have to climb on top when filling oil
>AC Condenser is under the rear tire, meaning you have to jack the vehicle up and remove the wheel if it needs serviced
There's more, but I think this should suffice for now. This being said, I might get one for my teen brother because they're cheap and he can learn basic mechanics from it
>Terrible reliability,
>Fuel economy (I know you're not expecting a prius but come on. 4-5mpg??)
>Horrifically slow, yes even for its size and weight
>Horrific to ride in, yes even for its size and weight
On top of all this, despite their size, the actual amount of room you get inside is shockingly bad. You'd expect SUV-level legroom but the transmission tunnel is so enormous that rear legroom is non-existent. The drivers legroom is bad and the driver's experience as a whole is cramped and one of many gauges, many cheap utilitarian buttons, stalks, sticks and handles.
If you bought this, you'd ride it around and have the time of your life with the adjustable tires until you realise everything I said above was true. The sheer discomfort of sitting in this thing, listening to that yelling piece of shit engine and praying that another injector doesn't clog, another pipe doesn't blow and the gears keep working will overshadow any enjoyment.
Just buy a land cruiser and you will be much happier
moron
For me, it's the low-drag, high-speed edition mdae in greece
it's a piece of shit
I am jealous though
would be really cool to convert one to electric.
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Can't register it to be road legal
they're absolute dogshit
ask anyone who drove more than 30minutes in one and he'll tell you not to do it.
Get an FJ Cruiser instead.
Just IMAGINE owning that piece of shit instead of a Suzuki Jimny with a 0.6 L turbocharged motor that's not only more capable than your pigfat shitbox, but also efficient qt af.
>shits in your cereal and impregnates your wife