Show Us What We've Won

A hearty congratulations to all of us, first and foremost. We good, honest, American taxpayers have just bought ourselves an auto manufacturer! (Awkward pause added here) I'm sure it has been a dream of every U.S. citizen to own a slice of General Motors, although we probably didn't imagine having to discontinue the Hummer in order to do it. This is another blow to the area surrounding my adopted college hometown of South Bend, as the central Hummer production plant was located in nearby Mishawaka. Historically the downfall of South Bend as a major industrial city coincided with the demise of the Studebaker in the the late '60s. Hopefully the loss of the international gas guzzler of choice will not produce a deeper sinkhole, because anybody who's been there knows South Bend needs all the help it can get...

With barely 14mpg highway, the Hummer can be green in color only.