Russians Put Tiny 13-Inch Wheels on Hummer H2 Because Why Not

Or: How to slam a huge SUV on the cheap.

The Hummer H2 is now nearly 20 years old, and every modification that can be done to it has been—from huge rims with even bigger tires to huge rims with low-profile tires, and from small rims with big tires to suspension lifts and suspension drops. But if you think the world has exhausted every means by which an H2 could be deviated from how General Motors sold it from the factory between 2002 and 2009, think again. A Russian shop with the YouTube channel Garage 54 slapped on a set of microscopic 13-inch wheels from a Lada.

For those who don't know what a Lada is, it's a very whelming affordable car brand from the Eastern Bloc, and no, its products' wheels don't simply bolt on to a Hummer H2, which came from the factory wearing 17-inch rims. Yep, that's the craziest part about this tiny wheels, big car story—that whoever is behind Garage 54 didn't just buy small wheels that happen to fit an H2. Instead, they took small four-lug wheels that could have been plausibly found on the side of the road, or perhaps in a Dumpster, and fabricated them into workable rims for a huge American SUV with an entirely different hub size and eight-lug bolt pattern.

Do we have any idea whether or not these wheels are even round? How about the precision in the hub centering? Given the video clip outlining the rims' conversion for Hummer use depicts workers making a cardboard template from the H2's wheel layout and then just kind of holding it over the Lada wheels and drillin' holes, let's just say we doubt the Hummer could safely or comfortably achieve speed. Of any kind. From what we gather in the video, high-speed stability and wheel balance weren't on the agenda, but "lowering" the H2 "cheaply" was. Mission accomplished: The Hummer is indeed much closer to the ground. It also looks absurd.