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Interesting how height of a person has come up in this thread.
I have never talked to an owner of a Hummer or similar vehicle who said they bought it because they are tall. I agree that comfort has to do with design, not overall size of the car.
My first car was a Chevy Spectrum (predesesor of Geo Metro) and got 47 mpg. It was pretty comfortable for me. My wife's Pontiac Sunfire gets 26 mpg and I am very uncomfortable driving it. The roof just curves in exactly the wrong spot (where my head is!)
For all the Hummers I have seen, only TWICE have I ever seen one pulling a trailler. I don't think I have ever seen one with a canoe on top. Come to think of it, I never remember seeing a passenger in a Hummer ever.
It is HUGE if you get a couple extra miles per gallon out of a big truck like that. But I don't think we should be commuting in vehicles that get such terrible economy. It really is just wasteful.
However, I can not simply say all Hummer owers are evil or some such nonsense. Some people just happen to like a particular vehicle. Maybe the owner of the Humvee I see at the grocery store only lives one mile away and loves to pack the groceries into. Who knows.
We should try not to be overly judgemental, but only encourage positive change, starting with ourselves.
It would be interesting to see a Hummer modified to get double the original fuel economy. It would be great as an attention-getting publicity truck.
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