You never forget the first time you hear granite biting into sheetmetal--the hairs on your neck stand up. No doubt that's what our trail boss heard as we traversed our first nasty off-road obstacle.

It's hard to imagine people clamoring for big, thirsty sport/utilities these days, so perhaps the H3 is just the thing for the times. GM claims it's as burly and rock-crawling-capable as a Hummer H2 ...

If less is more, as was famously asserted by a certain Mr. van der Rohe, then this new Hummer H3 is a lot more than GM's original whopper H2 because there's a lot less of it. That means you can pee-oh ...