Automotive design is about evoking emotion and where there's emotion, there is discussion. And few designs managed to spark discussion in polarising ways like the HMMWV. Love it or hate it, the fact the Hummer was discontinued this week will ignite many more passionate discussions. Formally, it ended because Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines couldn't get all the legislation organised in time for GM's deadline, but I can imagine the Chinese government wasn't to keen to see it represent the country's way forward.

Obituaries will appear everywhere this week, celebrating the end of an era. Last of the gas-guzzlers, last symbol of old skool US car design, eternal proof that emotional drivers outweigh rational ones. It'll be interesting to see what the type of people who used to buy Hummers will turn to next. Simply because you can't pimp a Toyota Prius, nor will the Honda Insight ever ooze 'F*U' from every pore.