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I thought AM General was bought by GM…in any event, yeah different versions…duh
I could have leased one for $199 a month, $0 down 15k miles a year.
I was going to use it as a winter beater, but then I test drove one.
The windows are tiny and makes you feel claustrophobic. Probably still should have got it sub-leased it for more or just to run up the miles.
Holy crap, that is ridiculously cheap for a $30k suv!
:lol: I could only imagine the Chery Hammer
Nice
Speaking of asian “compact” car company’s, theres a shop over here reforming the Nissan Rasheen to look like an H2 hummer.
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/06/01/daily40.html
Some cliffs:
GM will also keep building Hummers for the Chinese company, on a contract basis. That means that GM’s assembly plant in Shreveport, La., will continue to contract assemble H3 and H3T through at least 2010.
The Times reports that Sichuan Tengzhong is a privately owned company known in China for making highway-construction and maintenance-machinery equipment and that it had been moving into manufacturing heavy-duty trucks. If the deal is completed, it would mark the first large-scale U.S. automotive acquisition by a Chinese company.
Levine reports that no Hummer dealerships will be closed and that U.S. domestic production of Hummers actually will be boosted because the company will be moving production from a Port Elizabeth, South Africa, plant to Shreveport.
The deal doesn’t include Hummer’s military vehicles or technology. AM General of Indiana runs that end of the business. AM General sold the rights to make civilian Hummers to GM in the 1999.
The New York Times’ DealBook blog reports that even as the Hummer sale goes forward, GM CEO Fritz Henderson said on Swedish radio that there were three potential buyers for Saab. Dealbook, citing local media, said that Swedish luxury carmaker Koenigsegg and American financier Ira Rennert’s Renco were in the running for Saab.
I hate Hummers, but then again, I own a real Jeep
Congratulations?
I hate this mind set by Jeep owners!
If you drive a real HMMWV they are actually pretty capable and good all around, not outstanding in one area but good in most. The JLTV is replacing the HMMWVs sometime soon
^those are not real HMMWV
arn’t hummers capable of going into water as long as the snorkels are up?
My guess is the guys affording those are also not your best off roaders. GM wanted 100K for those.
I said I hate Hummers, not the HMMWV that’s built by AM General. The “real” Hummer is a very capable off-road vehicle, the civilian versions and the H2 and H3 are not. Well, I guess they could be capable, but usually the driver of the vehicle thinks they are driving the bestest off-road vehicle ever built and it usually results in events pictured above. This thread is about Hummers not the HMMWV. Regardless of the fact that I think Hummers are giant POS’s, it still sucks that they might be built by a Chinese company, I buy American made whenever possible.
My Jeep was American made…54 years ago…
This thread has absolutely nothing to do the American General Hummers / "H1"s, nor Jeeps or HMMWVs & their replacements.
They are saying electric and hybrid hummers and an H4 in the next couple years today.
Basiclly anything to bring up their fleet average MPG.
An electric Hummer sounds kinda funny. I wonder why they never had a diesel option?
:lol: :word: and, they had a nice concept last yr or yr before that was a well done hummer based electric vehicle… which Im sure wont see the light of day now.
An electric Hummer would have a lot of TQ