GM has briefly reopened its Hummer plant in Shreveport, Louisiana, to meet an order of almost 850 Hummer H3 vehicles. There’s no news on who ordered the Hummers, but it’s most likely a major rental firm looking to upgrade their Hummer fleet....
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The Shreveport Times reports that GM will restart production of the HUMMER H3 and H3T starting April 12, for a batch build of 849 units. An unidentified “fleet buyer” apparently needs a grip of the baby-HUMMERs, despite the fact that the brand...
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We’re only a few episodes into this season of the Bullrun, but some of the teams have started pulling some dirty tricks. That’s all well and good of course, this is Bullrun, not a Girl Scout meeting. But I have to say that I feel a little bad...
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Hummer’s days as America’s monster machine may be numbered, but it doesn’t mean that people will stop tinkering with it. After all, it is one of those rare vehicles that seems to have grown quite a cult following in the US.The CFC Hummer H2...
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found 2 days ago by Chris Shunk on
Autoblog
Unless a buyer for Hummer materializes in the next few months, General Motors will continue to wind-down its environmental group dart board. The slow death of Hummer has actually been in process since before The General announced that the sale of...
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Hummer’s days as America’s monster machine may be numbered, but it doesn’t mean that people will stop tinkering with it. After all, it is one of those rare vehicles that seems to have grown quite a cult following in the US.The CFC Hummer H2...
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Leave it to a German tuner to take something already gaudy by nature and make it even more garish and ugly. "Take your Hammer and drive it sexy", says CFC in the press release on the pimped-out Hummer H2 (with a "u" and not an "a"). Too bad it...
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At the end of this week, the production of Hummers will be halted as General Motors Co. waits for Chinese regulators to approve the brand’s sale to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co. Hummer spokesman Nick Richards said that as soon...
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The Hummer brand is not having a good time these days as their Chinese deal failed and it’s set to be wound down. However, to cheer it up a bit, a German company called CFC has came up with a crazy package for it, to remind us what this car is all...
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Giant, gas-guzzling SUVs. Full-body chrome tunes. These are a few of our least favorite things. So combine the two in a fully chromed-out Hummer H2 and we were expecting to see red. However, the chrome on this CarFilmComponents Hummer H2 tune...
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General Motors has announced that Chinese company, Tengzhong was unable to complete the Hummer transaction. GM has now said that they will wind down the Hummer brand. “One year ago, General Motors announced that we were going to divest HUMMER, as...
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The Nurburgring is covered in snow these days, and is impossible to drive around in. However, not if you’re driving a Hummer with snow tracks. Check out the video here. Related PostsHummer sale cancelled, GM looking for new buyer GM has announced...
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found 6 days ago by Ben Wojdyla on
Jalopnik
This is what we call "winning at life." While mortals lust after the opportunity to drive the Nurburgring, Wolfgang Blaube took a Mattrack-equipped Hummer H3 on the Green White Hell for Autobild. Ring time? Immortally badass, that's his ringtime....
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found 6 days ago by Ben Wojdyla on
Jalopnik
This is what we call "winning at life." While mortals lust after the opportunity to drive the Nurburgring, Wolfgang Blaube took a Mattrack-equipped Hummer H3 on the Green White Hell for Autobild. Ring time? Immortally badass, that's his ringtime....
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This is what happen when you trust the Chinese! General Motors has officially announced their previously successful deal with Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines regarding the sales of Hummer has failed as the Chinese company is unable to...
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GM’s Hummer division, slated to be sold off to Chinese manufacturer Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company, will instead be discontinued as communist red tape prevented the sale from being completed within the required timeline....
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Surprise, surprise. Much like the Saab ‘wind down’, GM may not wind down Hummer after all. At least not if it gets another suitable offer for the SUV brand.Last week, GM informed the world that Hummer was more or less doomed to extinction after...
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Hummer has received a temporary stay of execution, or at least the 153 remaining Hummer dealers have, as General Motors has extended their franchise agreements for another 60 days, Automotive News reports. The reason? More offers...
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In the wake of the collapsed bidding process by Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery to acquire Hummer, GM is examining prior bids with a fresh look. In a situation reminiscent of that with Saab, the company however will begin the winding...
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found 13 days ago by Ben Wojdyla on
Jalopnik
Hummer is mostly dead, but last summer, we took two H3s and joined the Hummer Club on an expedition to Michigan's Drummond Island. One local woman grabbed my ass, but for the most part, the fun happened behind the wheel.Last summer, we hit Drummond...
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The sale of Hummer to Sichuan Tengzhong had failed to prosper but reports are now saying that General Motors Co. is eyeing two separate offers for the brand. According to the Wall Street Journal, the two companies being considered have actually made...
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As GM attempts to off-load brands like Hummer and Saab, the entire process feels like the end of a horror movie when the monster keeps popping back to life. Just as Hummer’s fate appeared sealed when the Chinese industrial machinery company...
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Earlier we announced that the Hummer-Tengzhong deal has fallen through, but we’re now allowed to say that this will have no effect on South African operations. General Motors will wind the company down completely, and while we still distribute...
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GM has announced that the sale of the Hummer to a Chinese firm is off, and that they’re now looking at the two previous offers they had for the Hummer brand. GM had originally intended to sell the Hummer to China’s Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy...
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For 2010, J.D. Power and Associates split its Customer Service Index Study into luxury and mass market categories, with Lexus winning the luxury brand and Hummer at the top in the mass market column. Even before the news that Hummer was shutting...
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A “person familiar with the situation” tells the Wall Street Journal [sub] that GM is looking into two new offers for the HUMMER brand after a deal that would have sold the brand to China’s Sichuan Tengzhong collapsed. No word on who these two...
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found 14 days ago by Damon Lavrinc on
Autoblog
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, General Motors is taking a second look at two previous offers for Hummer after the deal to sell the ailing sports utility brand finally succumbed to a slow death yesterday. The WSJ doesn't divulge...
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found 14 days ago by Matt Hardigree on
Jalopnik
Hold the phones! Two previous suitors for Hummer have stepped up in the wake of China's failure to secure a deal and, of course, us running our fucking Hummer eulogy. Talk about back-room Saab-like B.S....
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found 14 days ago by Sam Smith on
Jalopnik
Hummer was the quintessential American brand — an allegory of everything right and wrong with our great nation. Now, after a failed sale to the Chinese, the brand is dead. So what does this say about America?Hummer was the quintessential American...
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Hummer is officially on the brink of extinction. The pending deal with Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines Co. is off and GM now plans to wind the company down. While we heard that very same phrase in the case of Saab, the Swedish automaker...
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