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Old Oct 9, 2009 | 02:25 PM
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It's official, Hummer is now...

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,...est=latestnews
 
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Old Oct 9, 2009 | 03:11 PM
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Not truly official yet. Still needs to be approved by the U.S. and Chinese governments.

Funny part is GM thought they could get around $500 mil and they reportedly got around $150 mil.


ETA: AM General will keep the military version.
 

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Old Oct 9, 2009 | 03:12 PM
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That's unfortunate.

I can see it now. "introducing the all new fuel efficient, hybrid hummer" IMO that is not hummer. Make the H1 again. Those are badass.
 
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Old Oct 9, 2009 | 04:11 PM
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That's unfortunate.

I can see it now. "introducing the all new fuel efficient, hybrid hummer" IMO that is not hummer. Make the H1 again. Those are badass.
You could buy a surplus hummer. Even have one around here that someone bought. I also suspect many to be on the market before too long as they will be getting a replacement for the Hummer as it has shown it needs to be beefed up with armor to the point it has little payload capacity.
 
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Old Oct 9, 2009 | 04:32 PM
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For 150 million, I bet some big time business man could have bought them here in the US and done a much better job with Hummer by himself. Not to mention all the contracts he would have with the military...
 
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Old Oct 9, 2009 | 04:58 PM
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He would have no contracts with the military as the military Hummer is made by AM General, not GM They are a totally different company. AM General is owned by LTV, and the rights to build the civilian Hummer versions were sold to GM. GM owns no part of AM General.
 
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Old Oct 9, 2009 | 05:07 PM
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would have been nice to have it built in the good ole USA, we could sure use the jobs....
 
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Old Oct 9, 2009 | 05:14 PM
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would have been nice to have it built in the good ole USA, we could sure use the jobs....
GM will still build the H3 & H3T for the new owners till 2011 in their Shreveport, Louisiana plant.....with a 2012 option.
 
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Old Oct 9, 2009 | 05:17 PM
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The Hummer service department spoke Chinese before, this makes it official.
 
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Old Oct 9, 2009 | 08:37 PM
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Maybe Wal-Mart will sell them with the rest of the Chinese junk!
 
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Old Oct 9, 2009 | 09:04 PM
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gaaay
 
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Old Oct 9, 2009 | 10:01 PM
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GM will still build the H3 & H3T for the new owners till 2011 in their Shreveport, Louisiana plant.....with a 2012 option.

Only if they kick the Unions out...
 
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Old Oct 9, 2009 | 10:32 PM
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Well if this is what GM built, I wonder how much more can the Chinese cheapen it with their C channel design concept.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpxoo...eature=related

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