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What's New for the 2006 HUMMER H2 SUT?
The rugged and stylish 2006 Hummer H2 SUT receives two new exterior colors, Twilight Maroon Metallic and Slate Blue Metallic, while Stealth Gray Metallic is phased out. Otherwise, the H2 SUT soldiers on into its second year unchanged.
Advantages of the 2006 HUMMER H2 SUT:
- Rear seat comfort
- Three locking differentials for extreme off-roading
- Control layout and user-friendliness
- Can tackle extreme off-road terrain
Objections to the 2006 HUMMER H2 SUT: - Sucks gas like cheap beer
- Hard to climb into and out of
- Inexpensive plastic interior trim
- Vehicle width a liability on narrow or wooded off-road trails
- Poor outward visibility
- Noisy cabin when underway
Editor's Advice:
After spending a few days driving the Hummer H2 SUT around central California as well as the Los Angeles region, we couldn't imagine why any sane person would want to drive one every day – aside from the novelty of piloting something this tall and wide in a city littered with narrow freeway lanes, compact parking spaces and long freeway drones. Thinking that perhaps its ability in the rough could redeem it, we took it off-road at a dedicated Off Highway Vehicle (OHV) park. There, we discovered that the Hummer H2 SUT is too wide to clear trees and brush on narrow trails, is too difficult to see out of when trying to safely explore new territory, and will indeed scrape its undercarriage from time to time. However, lock up all three transfer cases, and the H2 SUT is nearly impossible to stop. Though this truck is more at home off-road than on-road, the rising cost of fuel and an H2 SUT owner's unwillingness to leave paved streets and get his loafers dirty may reduce this behemoth to a domesticated ornamental trophy designed to generate envy from the Joneses.
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