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Alex Law
For a lot of people, it's not the folks with paranoia who need help, since they tend to leave you alone because they don't trust you. No, it's the guys with ''Paulanoia'' who need help, since they go around thinking everyone likes them, and they're a lot more irritating as a result.

But there's more interest in what paranoids do and what they drive, so let's get on with it.

First off, a little context. Someone with paranoid personality disorder will buy a regular car, which he or she will then use to drive around looking for someone who really likes him.

The person with delusional paranoid disorder will not really need a car because he'll be spending all his free time writing to anyone who can help him prove that the oil companies have the formula for turning sea water into gasoline locked up in a secret compound in Arizona or some other suspicious place.

The paranoid schizophrenic, on the other hand, will absolutely adore the Hummer H1 Tactical Vehicle because it will actually take him where no other vehicle will and that will allow him to get away from his mother who puts poison in her lasagna, or from the girls who want to tie him up with their secret spider webs.

Don't laugh. No, you should laugh because it is funny, but don't think it's not true. Some of these folks really think that women have the physical ability to cast webs.

It's impossible for me to guess where a paranoid schizophrenic person (PSP) might want to go in a Hummer H1 Tactical Vehicle, since I'm not that crazy. It may seem like I am, however, since it is true that journalists meet an entry-level requirement since we have sought out jobs where moralistic and punitive behavior is at least tolerated.

But I digress. The Hummer H1 Tactical Vehicle was, after all, designed for the U.S. military as the Humvee, and those folks often need to go places where other people don't want them to go, which can be worse.

To understand the H1 version of the Hummer you need to cleanse yourself of any impressions you might have gained from riding in or even reading about any of the subsequent models, such as the H2 and upcoming H3. As good as they are off-road (and they really are good), the modern Hummers are several steps removed from the H1 Tactical Vehicle. It's like street shoes and hiking boots.

If you have any experience with the H1 that's been on the market for about a decade now, you have a very good idea what a H1 Tactical Vehicle is like because it's essentially an H1 with some of the creature comforts removed.

H1 owners will laugh at the notion of removing creature comforts, since there really aren't that many of them in the first place. After all, it's essentially a military vehicle with some throw pillows and wallpaper, so its essence is still clear.

On paved roads, the Hummer H1 Tactical exhibits zero car-like attributes. It's noisy, cramped and rough-riding, and noisy, cramped and rough-riding some more. You earn every kilometer that you cover in an H1.
Alex Law
Alex Law
Automotive expert