![]() Of course, by the time General Motors got the things to market, the Planet America thing was decidedly on the nose and the whole Hummer thing was discontinued in 2009. The idea was to impart a chunk of that military yee-hah to an SUV that could cut it in the suburbs. General Motors bought the rights in 1999 to produce the big Humvee, renaming it Hummer H1 and then backing up with the smaller H2 and H3, based on civilian-vehicle platforms. ![]() Arnold Schwarzenegger had one and so did plenty of A-list celebrities including 50 Cent, who used the utter uselessness of the big, weapons-grade Hummer to make a statement…ridiculous though it was. There was a time – around the period of Gulf War 1, when General Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf was inspiring proud nationalists everywhere – that the Humvee military vehicle was as cool as it got. ![]()
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