General Motors and the Chinese government came to blows over an attempted sell-off of the Hummer brand to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines Co. Ltd, but this hasn’t stopped Qu Zhibo from building his own Hummer. The result may look like a composite of a kiddie jeep, doghouse and wheelbarrow, but one thing is for [...]
Even the U.S. Army is looking to go a little more eco-friendly as it searches to replace the Humvee with a more fuel efficient model. A program initiated by the U.K. based Ricardo Inc. called the Fuel Efficient Demonstrator has a goal to “improve military vehicle technology, reduce fuel consumption on the battlefield and reduce [...]
Charges will be filed by the FBI against two people involved in a scheme where over 200 Hummers had been fraudulently sold. The Hummers were sold overseas by a salesman working at a car dealership in Omaha that was stocking the SUVs. He has already been arrested, but the FBI is still after the owner [...]
General Motors said that it is recalling all Hummer H3 units produced since the 2006 model year to fix a portion of the hood that can detach during driving. The voluntary recall affects 164,190 H3 and H3Ts in the United States and 198,404 worldwide. Spokesman Nick Richards said that a device on the hood called [...]
General Motors announced today that within the next couple of months, the Detroit automaker will no longer be selling vehicles from the brands it is eliminating. Executives said that there are about 2,000 Hummer, Pontiac and Saturn vehicles left in its inventory. During the month of April, GM sold 52 Pontiacs, 373 Saturns and 481 [...]
General Motors told its dealers earlier this morning that it is shutting down its Hummer brand for good. After a possible sale to Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery failed to receive Chinese government approval in February, GM said it will consider other offers for the SUV brand. After failing to come to terms with other offers, [...]
While Hummer is preparing to wind down, GeigerCars is continuing its obsession with the brand and American brands in general. The tuner has just released its Hummer H2 Bomber, an H2 wearing four Mattracks 88M1-A1 rubber tracks that replace your 20-inch chrome wheels. “n contrast to the regular wheels with their 8.5″ x 20″ rims [...]
An artist by the name of Jeremy Dean created something called “Back to the Futurama,” a statement to the current American consumer culture, the auto industry and the economic recession. Dean figured that the biggest impressions he could make for his “Back to the Futurama” would be to turn a Hummer H2 into a horse [...]
After talks with Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines Co., Ltd. (Tengzhong) broke down last month, General Motors said that it will begin the orderly wind-down of the Hummer operations. However, GM also confirmed that it is examining prior bids with a fresh look and is also looking at new offers. According to a report by [...]
Two dead General Motors brands, Saturn and Hummer, will get their last hurrah on the automaker’s assembly line. “We are building out a few Saturns to utilize existing material,” GM spokeswoman Kim Carpenter said. She said that GM will assemble Outlooks for a few more weeks. The automaker made 1,037 Outlook crossovers last month after [...]
