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Indian Automakers Want YOUR Failed Brand Today!

Jun 7th, 2008 • No comments • Link to Article

According to Automotive News, Tata and Mahindra may be interested in buying up the rapidly-depreciating remains of GM’s dying uber-SUV brand, Hummer.

You may remember Tata Motors as the subcontinental automaker that picked up Jaguar and Land Rover after Ford cast them off like last season’s ugh boots, and is now in the process of turning them around and sending them back on their way to profitability. Will they (or Mahindra) be able to do the same with Hummer? In a global car market that is rapidly shunning thirsty SUVs and concentrating on fuel-efficient small cars and sedans, perhaps buying the biggest and heaviest SUV brand on the planet isn’t the best idea.
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2009 Hummer H3T official videos

Jan 31st, 2008 • No comments • Link to Article

The Hummer H3T is scheduled to make its public debut at this years Chicago Auto Show. Inspired by the Hummer H3, on which it is based the H3T brings a degree of added practicality to the Hummer range as well as added length.

The four-door, five-passenger dual-cab features a standard 3.7-litre, five-cylinder engine. Production of the H3T is scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2008 and although there is no word on the likelihood of it reaching Australia it would be fair to assume that it will be hugely popular, if and when it does.

Click through for two official videos, one of the Hummer H3T on the move and the other giving us a close up look at some of the H3T’s details.
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2009 HUMMER H3T revealed

Jan 29th, 2008 • 1 comment • Link to Article

Welcome to Hummer’s 2009 HUMMER H3T pickup/ute. Thanks to another broken embargo, we get to see the H3T a little earlier than expected. The H3T is a dual-cab ute version of the H3 Hummer that is proving so popular in Australia. Based on a stretched version of the H3’s platform the H3T provides that mix of load carrying ute tray and four door cabin area that so many are trading in their SUV’s for.

In the States, the H3T will be available with the 3.7-litre Atlas five-cylinder engine that is standard fitment in the Oz spec H3 HUMMER, as well as a 5.3-litre V8 version that we don’t yet see in this country. There is enough room in the rear ute bed to carry a trailbike, which seems to be the standard these days with the dual-cab utes being pitched squarely at the recreational buyer rather than the hardcore four-wheel-drive type.
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Hummer HX concept preview

Jan 10th, 2008 • 4 comments • Link to Article

Okay, some of you may think that the average SUV is a little obnoxious, a tad unnecessary and we all agree that they are hard to see around in traffic…but forget all of that for a moment and feast your eyes on what is one very sexy looking off-roader. Not since the insane Lamborghini V12 powered LM002 have I liked an SUV so much.

Dubbed the Hummer HX it is Hummer’s version of how an open-air Hummer should be. Hummer’s design department took three young designers under their wing and put them to work developing the HX. Three individual interpretations became one and the HX is the result.

The HX features removable wheel arch flares and doors as well as a modular rear roof assembly with removable panels.

“The modular design of the roof and removable body panels mark an evolution of HUMMER’s design aesthetic. These features demonstrate a deeper understanding of enthusiast desires when it comes to off-road driving – and the slant-back design gives the HX a look all its own,” said Carl Zipfel, director of design.

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GM shoehorns the LS7 into the H3 Hummer

Dec 27th, 2007 • No comments • Link to Article

The Hummer H3 is currently selling up a storm in Australia, with a waiting list that was recently stretching back six months as buyers lined up for the well priced and very capable SUV. Not one to let a little thing like Global Warming get in the way of a good time, the General has announced that they will be showing their new Hummer H3R Concept at the Detroit Motor Show in mid January 08 and this one will be no whimpy five-cylinder job.
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Hummer HX Concept

Dec 11th, 2007 • No comments • Link to Article

Its all happening at Hummer at the moment. Huge demand for their unique military inspired urban off-roaders is largely due to their no-nonsense styling which has struck a cord with many in the market for a 4WD vehicle.

Looking to the future, Hummer have handed the design crayons over to a team of relative youngsters and the result is terrific – the Hummer HX Concept due to debut at the North American International Auto Show in 2008. The design trio (David Rojas, Min Young Kang and Robert Jablonski) worked under the guidance of Hummers’s design studio director, Carl Zipfel.
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Hummer H3 Black Edition

Dec 11th, 2007 • No comments • Link to Article

Now I’m not a big fan of urban 4WD’s in the spirit of Patrol and Landcruiser. I hate the fact that I can’t see past them in traffic and don’t see the point to them as a means of commuting around urban areas…but, I think the Hummer H3 is awesome and quite probably for all of the wrong reasons. I’m not alone either, with the waiting list in Australia for a H3 stretching past six months and stories of some wannabe owners asking well above the list price to jump the queue.
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