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(Feb. 25) –GM’s Hummer — the gas-guzzling behemoth people either love or hate — is headed for the scrap heap of automotive history. A deal to sell the brand to a Chinese company has collapsed, and General Motors says it will shut down production.
America has “always been obsessed with largeness, equating it with bounty and success … Being big and powerful is essential to our national identity,” Tunku Varadarajan wrote Thursday on The Daily Beast. But in a time when fuel costs are high and money is tight, bigness begins to signify excess and self-indulgence, he added.
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