HUMMER H1 News
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This $300,000 Mil-Spec Hummer H1 boasts a diesel engine with 1,000 pound-feet of torque, 13 inches of suspension travel, and a luxurious interior.
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Mil-Spec Hummer H1 Launch Edition #007 is a baja-ready luxury pickup
Mil-Spec automotive has released its seventh Hummer H1 Launch Edition, a triple-black four-door pickup.
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Humvee Camaro mashup is really muddy, really cool
The first-generation Camaro on a Hummer H1 chassis is a mud bog drag racer with 650 horsepower and four-wheel steering.
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Mil-Spec's latest Hummer H1 is a Baja beast
We're now four vehicles into Mil-Spec's newfound business of restomodding Hummer H1s. The Hummer Launch Edition #004 follows three additional Launch Edition vehicles and is meant to recall the company's original prototype. Mil-Spec's Hummer Launch Edition #004 is meant to be a "baja beast" and...
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Mil-Spec Automotive has built a track-focused Hummer H1
Just because a track build could be described as questionable doesn't mean we're not interested in learning more about it. Exhibit H for this discussion is Mil-Spec Automotive's new Hummer H1 that's been reworked on-road or on-track handling instead of off-road capability. Yes, you read that...
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Mil-Spec has built Hummer Launch Edition #003, and this one's for sale
The first one was built to show that they could do it. A customer pre-ordered the second one and optioned it as they saw fit. Now Mil-Spec has built a third example of its rebooted Hummer H1, and Launch Edition #003 is currently listed for sale with an asking price of $239,000. Mil-Spec has...
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Mil-Spec Automotive (MSA) has quickly made a name for itself by building luxurious SUVs based on a reimagined Hummer H1. On Wednesday, MSA revealed its second custom creation based on the H1: the #002 Launch Edition. Fittingly, the #002 follows the #001 Launch Edition, but the follow-up SUV features a slant-back roof design that's more to our liking than the open-top #001. It is finished in a matte black Kevlar texture. The #002 Launch Edition also boasts equipment MSA never planned to offer. Since this is a bespoke vehicle, the customer specified that #002 would have a unique air-ride...
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Detroit's Mil-Spec Auto ready to restomod its next Hummer H1
Mil-Spec Automotive wants to restomod more Hummer H1s. The Detroit-based company has already proven it can with the launch of its first vehicle; the Launch Edition #001 H1 (shown below) unveiled last month. Now, Mil-Spec is moving ahead with more orders because Launch Edition #002 is underway and...
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This Detroit-based company just rebooted the Hummer H1
Singer reimagines the Porsche 964, and makes buckets of cash doing so. Icon does a similar job on Toyota Land Cruisers, Ford Broncos, and other vintage vehicles. Now a company called Mil-Spec Automotive (MSA) plans to bring its own resto-mod vision to life, and it's doing so using an unlikely hero...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s dream of an electric Hummer H1 comes true thanks to Kreisel
Arnold Schwarzenegger was influential in getting AM General’s military-duty Humvee converted for civilian use in the 1990s. Since then his environmental consciousness has grown, making his beloved Hummer H1, the name of the civilian Humvee, quite the contradiction. Now, thanks to Austrian...
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Bob Lutz is now selling new Hummer H1s in China
China's increasingly crowded roads might not seem like the ideal location for hulking military derived off-road vehicles, but don't tell Bob Lutz or his company that. VLF Automotive is officially selling carbon copies of the Hummer H1 in the people's republic. Wealthy Chinese customers have...
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Tupac's 1996 Hummer H1 sells for $337,000
Shattering pre-sale estimates, a 20-year-old Hummer H1 once owned by slain rapper Tupac Shakur sold recently for $337,114 at auction. That price represents a roughly 700 percent increase over what an H1 not owned by the rapper would sell for today. RR Auctions, which sold off the Hummer for its...
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Although decidedly modest by today's customizing standards, the 1996 Hummer H1 that Tupac Shakur picked out just a few months before he was gunned down in Las Vegas is full of surprises fitting with the rapper's taste. Now is your chance to become the next steward of the black Hummer, a four-door hardtop with a 6.5-liter V-8 diesel engine. Shakur had the truck mildly customized with auxiliary lights, brush guards, dark tinted windows, and "Eliminator" badging outside. CHECK OUT: Rare "barn find" Shelby GT350 headed to auction Inside, the military-grade truck is swathed in leather and burled...
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U.S. military working on next-gen Humvee
The current M998 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (Humvee for short), the truck that spawned the Hummer H1, has been in use by the military for more than 20 years, but a successor could be just around the corner. Earlier this month military officials issued a ‘Request for...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran