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American greenies don't hold a monopoly on Hummer hatred. China Car Times reports a Mazda6 club outing encountered a Hummer H2. In a move that would make Greenpeace proud, the school of 20 Mazdas surrounded the H2 and forced the driver to slow to 30kph (about 18mph). They were so proud of their actions they videotaped the entire incident and put it on the internet. Hummer-positive internet viewers tracked down the license plate numbers on the Mazdas and posted the drivers' names, home addresses and telephone numbers along with negative comments. The Mazda drivers should just be thankful the H2 driver didn't put it in 4wd low and pretend he was a tank driver in Tiananmen Square.
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Hey, the Mazda drivers did not do anything illegal…All in all, it just sounds like good fun to me, if they obscured the hummer license plates and driver’s face.
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Which they didn’t.
lol
Ignoring the fact that I’m somewhat amused, that’s rude at the least and I highly disapprove =].
I don’t see the fun in this at all. They could have been late to work or an appointment.
All I can say is, try that in Texas…
How immature of those Mazda drivers. Glad to see their smuggery did not go unrewarded.
The great irony here is that running 20 Mazda6s would burn a hell of a lot more fuel than one, five, or even ten H2s.
Funny how the H2 seems to be the ultimate scapegoat for SUV hate. This would never happen to a Wrangler, Armada, or even a V-10 F-150.
I wish I would have been driving the Hummer! It could have been a lot of fun trying to get one of those cars to crash into the back of me (after an animal that may or may not exist ran in front of me, of course). Those guys were following close enough at times that a full-ABS stop would have done it if they weren’t covering the brake the whole time. And if they become hostile after that, it would be perfectly legal to plow through them to escape in self defense.
It’s fortunate that the Hummer driver had the mental stability I lack and decided not to intentionally escalate the situation!
Exactly how does this differ from unlawful imprisonment?
I suppose the thing to do is pull off the road, then if they continue to surround you you can drive over them?
Hey, to each his own!
The irony is yesterday a white Hummer H2 with those stupid 22″ wagon wheels decided to do a steady 65 mph in the passing lane of the 2 lane section of the NJ Turnpike with a Ford Explorer pacing in the right lane. While I can forgive the explorer driver (full of kids and vacation equipment) the Hummer driver was the poster child for everything folks hate about these STUPID vehicles.
I will be honest. I just do not get it when it comes to the Hummer H2. THis thing look like a child’s fantasy turned into an adults nightmare!
I can’t help but say WHY? whenever I see one of these silly things.
OK, to each his own. Damn I can’t help it. Only a TOOL would buy and drive an H2!
Like I said, to each his own, but some vehicles really do scream “A$$HOLE DRIVER” a whole lot louder than others!
Seems the Hummer owner could have done what the vehicle was intended to do in order to escape. *go off road*
Seems the Hummer owner could have done what the vehicle was intended to do in order to escape. *go off road*
Or give it some gas. I’m sure even the hulking H2 is on the long list of vehicles that could out pace their riced-out 4-bangers. I love the 6, but the base 2.3L in the 6i can’t get out of its own way.
A little known fact is that the H2 is the design replacement for the Aztek.
@Blunozer: No matter what you think of it, GM’s got one hell of an icon in the Hummer. Problem is, driving one is like driving the schoolyard bully. Couple the aggressive design, the obese size, the elevated price tag, and the military heritage, and you’ve got a very anti-social vehicle – plus, there’s very little an H2 can do that a Tahoe can’t. I guess the looks resonate with some people (I’ll admit, I liked the H2 as an ambulance in Transformers), but at the same time, it essentially represents all that is wrong with the SUV
Am I the only one here who sees something wrong with a Mazda6 club? It’s a nice car instead of a camry…I mean, really? Corvettes, OK. Porsches, OK. Miatas…yup. 6? How lame are these people?
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There are clubs out there for almost every car available. I think it’s cool that people can be enthusiastic about vehicles that are considered pedestrian.
Even Geo Metros have fan clubs.
At least the Mazda fanboys have more guts than those clowns over a FUH2. Picture after picture of cowards flipping H2’sthe bird from a safe distance behind them.
Do understand that with driving pretty much brand-new in China, one thing–maybe just about the only thing–that brand-new Chinese car owners do is go for club drives. This is a huge new hobby there, and these people get together with their club leaders and go for drives sometimes days in length. It has nothing to do with whether or not the car is desirable, just that it’s a _car_. These people aren’t lame at all. They simply own a car for the first time in their lives, which must be pretty thrilling.
It’s like private pilots getting together and flying 100 miles to an airport restaurant for a hamburger that ultimately cost them $250, and their airplanes are idiotic Cherokees and 172s. (I can say that, since I have 3,000 hours in idiotic Cherokees and 172s and other stuff…)
Revoke that guy’s Man Card! This really shows how different their culture is to ours. In the U.S. there is no ‘having fun’ on the road at someones expense.
Expect to pay the consequences, possibly with your life. That trailer hitch I keep on my ride ain’t there to tow.
I wouldn’t buy a Hummer unless it came with a turret mounted M-240. I mean, like why bother?
Are they really all that fast ?
I trundled down a motorway near my Parent’s places in North West England and had the only one of these I know of (belongs to a sad self-publicist with the job of “lifestyle coach”, wish I could find the link…) trying to push me along all the way despite that fact I had nowhere to pull in (no overtaking on the passenger side here).
All I could see in the rear window was the bottom of the grill. Very annoying.
Once clear though the 90hp/150 lb/ft Turbo Diesel hatchback I was driving at the time had no problem at all making the bling-mobile tiny speck in my rear view mirror and was happy to repeat the trick whenever he caught up.
It kind of reminded me of a 20-stone ruddy-faced asthmatic diabetic running on a hot day – lots of bluff and bluster but not much real progress.
Thankfully apart from those painted matt green or sand colours very few seem to make it out of North America.
mazda 6 club sucks and hummers suck. note that hummers and other suvs tend to do the same thing to other drivers that these guys did to the hummer, that is, take up the passing lane and go 60 cause 60 feels like 120 in an suv.
I’m getting a mental image of a cow falling in a tropical creek and getting picked apart by pirannas….
Seriously, though, people buy Hummers for one reason and one reason only: they like attention. So this Hummer driver got a little more attention than usual. Bully for him.
I pass the moving buildings as fast as I can. The only good place for an SUV is in your rearview mirror, off-road or in Iraq.