GM Set to Eliminate SUV by June
Huzzah! The senior mangagement at General Motors finally concedes that bigger is not necessarily better… Of course, “The Limits To Growth,” (Club of Rome, 1972) is still apostacy to them — even in this era of peak oil.

GM has steadily expanded the Hummer line but shrunk the models’ size. In 2002, GM introduced the H2, a medium-size version, and last spring it brought out the H3, the smallest of the group. The H3, which sports a 5-cylinder engine, is popular, but the entire Hummer group has been outsold this year by the Toyota Prius, [my emphasis–N.B.] a gas-electric hybrid. A key member of GM’s board of directors has suggested that GM scrap Hummer altogether to save cash.

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