# The Biggest Cars Money Can Buy

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Climate Town
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8wBie-Oamc

## Содержание

### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8wBie-Oamc) Segment 1 (00:00 - 01:00)

In just 6 years, SUVs went from being 5% of the luxury vehicle market to 50% by 1996. It used to be BMWs and Mercedes and Porsches, but now rich Americans wanted massive four-wheel behemoths. And the richest, most Americanist Americans wanted the biggest, assest cars ever. It can scale an 18-in wall, plow its way up a 60% grade, weigh through 2 feet of water, muck, or mud, and plow through three foot snow drifts. It's not a car, it's not a truck, IT'S A HOVER CAME FROM A COMPANY called AM General that split off from Jeep cuz they wanted to focus on military vehicles. Then they got a billion dollar contract from the US government to replace all those little girl Jeeps with actual Humvees. And when the SUV market took off, they unleashed their weapons of war on the US suburbs. Apparently, they rushed so hard to get the street legal Hummer out to millionaires that half the cars in this ad still have guns on top. And if you look at the back seat, there's a dining room table in the middle cuz that's where the soldier is supposed to stand for the gun. The Hummer H1 got less than 10 miles to the gallon. And according to this Guardian article, it was more like four in city track. But the Terminator loved it, the auto industry loved it, and within a few years, GM bought the rights to make as many different kinds of Hummers as their hearts desired. And according to GM marketing, Hummers tend to appeal to people who never performed military service, but wished they had. Good lord, another devastating burn on their own customers. They also felt that Hummers would do well with rugged individualists and that rugged individualists were people who really sought out peer approval. My god, you can't come back from that. And things were about to get a whole lot worse.

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*Источник: https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/42526*