Hole In The Wall

カリフォルニア州サンノゼ在のソフトウェアエンジニア。

ハマーH2生産終了間近?

San Francisco Chronicleより、

See, sales of this particular model -- perhaps the most idiotic consumer vehicle ever produced in your lifetime -- are down. Way down, a full 27 percent from last year alone, which was already way down 22 percent from the year prior, with sales continuing to plummet as fast as gas prices are rising and Bush's war is raging and Americans are generally snapping awake to the fact that dumping well over 100 bucks to fill the tank of this monster abomination every other day might not be the best way to waste their kid's college fund.

今年の売上げが去年の27%減、さらに去年は一昨年の22%減。まあ、最近のガソリン価格の動きを見れば当然の成行きなのだけれど、目を引いたのはこの箇所:

The truth is, the comically irresponsible H2 represented and encapsulated its brutal -- though mercifully brief -- time period in Bush's America perfectly.

その”笑える程の無責任さ"がブッシュ政権下のアメリカを具現化しているという主張。なるほど一理あるな。