I call it garbage, because it got bad gas mileage and because it was useless. The only purpose it served was to show how small of a penis the driver had.
It wasn't good for off road. Jeep makes a superior off road vehicle that is about half the cost.
It's not a good military vehicle. The IEDs in Iraq have hobbled many a hummer. To top that off, it gave the military headaches in terms of maintenance, etc.
Just because you can afford the gas doesn't mean this car should be on the road. Personally, I think it's this kind of attitude that got us in the mess of people who overextended themselves on housing loans.
Whoa, slow down. I agree with you in the sense that I believe that there are little to no civilian applications for which the humvee (or its little brothers) are better suited than a lot of vehicles. However, implying that it's "not a good military vehicle" is taking it too far.
The humvee was never meant to be a frontline, toe-to-toe combat vehicle. Its use as such in the past decade should be considered a massive failure in planning and foresight. As it was designed, the only combat arms guys who were supposed to use the humvee
in combat were TOW armed cav scouts and ADA. The reason that it was pressed into combat was because there really was nothing else. Well, the South Africans have had interesting protected vehicles for a long time, but that's another matter.
If you design a 4WD vehicle from the ground up to perform the combat functions an uparmored M1114 performs, you invariably end up with a vehicle that resembles the Cadillac Gage Commando. Or if you take a page from the South African playbook, a modern MRAP. Neither of these are terribly good general purpose utility vehicles.
Second, this conception of off-road prowess... When the Army wants a real off-road vehicle, they get a vehicle with tracks, not wheels. Leaving the tracks vs wheels debate aside, the average civilian's concept of off-road capability is very different from the military's. The modern Jeep (CJ/Wrangler) is essentially a recreational vehicle. People buy it to get to or from recreation. Or it's a recreation in and of itself or it's meant to give that impression. People generally don't buy Jeeps as utility vehicles because what makes them great trail runners is also what makes them nearly useless in the modern military sense - they're tiny. And this isn't even touching the broader matter of different applications of 4x4.
As for maintenance. Well, maintenance is maintenance. It's nowhere close to being good, but it's not THAT bad, either. You should see how often a Land Rover Defender is out of service if you think a humvee has maintenance problems.
As a civilian, a Toyota LC78 is a much better choice for just about anything, but then again, you won't be turret mounting an anti tank weapon on it, either.
