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Old 04-12-2004, 12:40 AM  
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Originally posted by 404
how did someone think that "hummer" would be a good name for a vehicle? what other names made it to the short list i wonder?
It was designed for the military, its an acronym for high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle, or HMMWV, military designation is the M998 Truck

The army calls it the humvee, the civilians started calling it the hummer
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