H2 VS. H3--Which would you choose?

[Ronnie_Ringo]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by sfox:
[quote]Originally posted by DWPC:

Maybe (just maybe) for playing where there's plenty of room. Very few even frequent 4x4ers would ever need the on-paper angle advantages of the H2 over the H3. I don't know where you wheel, but I was on a couple tight jeep trails in AZ last week that would have probably ruined an H2's day when you saw what your sides looked like afterward. You're six inches wider than a H3, but over a foot wider than the Jeeps that generally blazed the trails.

I'll take the H3's much better low range and much handier size over a couple degrees of departure angle any day. Not to mention the $20+ grand difference. In a pure technical contest, maybe you'll win, but if I want to take a real-world 10-mile switchback trail to a new trout stream; I'd rather take the H3.

Maybe I should have said more practical instead of more useable. Just my opinion. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Seriously, have you ever actually wheeled??? A couple of degrees of approach and departure angle?? People spend THOUSANDS on lifts, tires, bumpers, etc to get a couple of extra degrees of breakover, approach and departure angle. It's really hard to take you seriously when you make such idiotic statements and don't even know enough about H2's to know that they have four tow loops. Don't get me wrong, I never said the H3 wasn't capable, just that to simply dismiss the H2's capabilities (of which you obviously have limited knowledge) based solely on it's width, makes it incredibly difficult to give your arguement any credibility. I have wheeled with dozens of H1's, H2's and H3's with drivers of varying experience levels, so I can speak with some degree of authority that the H2's "techinical" advantages aren't just on paper. While a few situations may give the edge to the H3 based solely on it's width, the H2 will win out in other situations.

So much anger. What is the exact definition of "wheeled" anyway? I'm from the Midwest and I love taking the H3 to the Northwoods. Not too many mountains around here. It fits perfect on those logging trails. So much fun after a good T-storm. Arguing about the difference between an H2 and H3 is idiotic. Who F'in cares? It's cool that the H1 in my neighborhood honks every time we pass each other. That's what it's all about. Mutual respect. I'll be a happy man the day I own the H1 and H2.