HUMMER News
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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 it's the first customer car built for this young company. Now, we're going to admit that we don't love the name. If you call yourself Mil-Spec, you should probably be building vehicles that offer, you know, some sort of military-spec protection. Like, for instance, what Rezvani has done with its...
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This Detroit-based company just rebooted the Hummer H1Singer 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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SF Motors reveals first EVs to be built at ex-Hummer plantAn electric car startup backed by Chinese commercial vehicles giant Chongqing Sokon as well as Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard has revealed its first two cars. The company is SF Motors, which last June announced it was acquiring AM General’s commercial vehicles plant located in South Bend...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s dream of an electric Hummer H1 comes true thanks to KreiselArnold 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...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Tupac's Hummer H1 just sold for $206,531Why would someone pay over $206,000 for a Hummer H1? Celebrity provenance certainly helps. Tupac's 1996 Hummer H1 first hit the auction block in 2016, when it sold for a hefty $337,000. But that buyer welched on the deal and the modified H1 went back on the block and just sold for $206,531, to be...
Jeff Glucker -
Plant that once built Hummers will soon build EVs for Chinese-backed startupIn a strange twist of fate, the plant that once built big, gas-hungry Hummers has been bought by a startup looking to build electric cars. On June 22, Chinese-backed electric car startup SF Motors announced plans to acquire AM General’s commercial vehicles plant located in South Bend...
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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 commissioned VLF to build new Hummer H1 SUVs, Car and Driver reports. Though they don't wear the "Hummer" name, they are indeed H1s. AM General, the vehicle's contract manufacturer, has been offering Humvee C-Series kits since 2013, three years after General Motors sent the Hummer brand to the automotive...
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Tupac's 1996 Hummer H1 sells for $337,000Shattering 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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Tupac's Hummer comes up for saleAlthough 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...
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'The Avengers' Humvee For Sale On eBayWhile owning a real military vehicle brings with it as many complications as compliments, owning a piece of movie quasi-history might help make up for some of the trouble you're sure to incur with this M998 HMMWV, or, as it's more commonly known, the Humvee--the "real" Hummer. No weak-kneed...
Nelson Ireson -
GM Will Shut HUMMER Brand DownDespite hopes that a new buyer for Hummer would be found after an original sale deal with China’s Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines Co., Ltd. (Tengzhong) fell through, General Motors will now shut the brand down for good. GM originally said that it had several parties still interested...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Official: HUMMER Sale Ends, Brand To Be Wound DownGeneral Motors has announced that the proposed deal with China’s Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines Co., Ltd. (Tengzhong) over the sale of HUMMER cannot be completed and as a result the brand will be wound down. The deal with Tengzhong was expected to secure more than 3,000 U.S. jobs...
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Is it just us, or did 2009 completely suck? The economy tanked, automakers went bankrupt, celebrities died left and right (and not even the good ones). Ugh, midnight cannot come fast enough. Since early this morning, our crack team of auto journalists/clairvoyants has been drinking tea -- mostly English breakfast and Earl Grey, with one small pot of lapsang souchong for Someone Who Just HAS to be Difficult -- and we've now begun reading the leaves. Our visions are still a bit fuzzy (that pitcher of Bloody Marys probably isn't helping), but we can already see that 2010 is going to be far...
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2009: The Year In ReverseWe're just a couple of days away from rear-ending 2010, so like all major media outlets, we thought we'd take a break from real reporting (don't worry: nothing's happening) and look back at some of 2009's notable moments. It was an...interesting year for the auto industry to say the least, and...
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Report: HUMMER To Resume H3, H3T Production In NovemberHUMMER's sale to China still isn't officially complete, but already talk of production resuming has begun.
Nelson Ireson -
HUMMER And Tengzhong Sign Sale AgreementThe news isn't official, but an insider claims Sichuan Tengzhong's purchase of Hummer will be signed soon.
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Report: Hummer Buyers Feel Morally JustifiedA study by the Journal of Consumer Research says Hummer buyers are motivated by ideology.
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Report: Hummer HQ To Be Located In DetroitGM is expected to complete the sale of the Hummer brand to China's Tengzhong by the end of this year.
Nelson Ireson -
Seriously, is there anything that man can't do?
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Official: GM And Koenigsegg Reach Agreement Over SaabThe sale is expected to close by the end of the third quarter.
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Range Rover, HUMMER H2, other luxury cars costly to insureThat luxury sport-utility vehicle you're eyeing could come with lots of street credentials - as well as a hefty insurance bill. It's no surprise that expensive rides can cost a lot at the showroom, but a new study by Insure.com drops the other shoe on costs of ownership for the finest, most capable...
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Report: Hummer deal on the rocks, China doesn't want gas guzzlersGeneral Motors' deal with China's Tengzhong to buy Hummer was thought to be as good as done in early June, but today reports of chatter on China's state radio casts the sale in a different light. The gas-guzzling SUVs just don't fit with the conservation plans in place in Beijing. So now the AP is...
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Lexus tops J.D. Power Initial Quality study, Porsche and Cadillac close behindWhen it comes to luxury-car quality, taste often plays as big a role as fact, but J.D. Power tries to boil the issue down to a simple metric: problems per 100 cars. The resulting ranks are dubbed the Initial Quality Study, and used to guide consumer decisions. As usual, Lexus rates at the very top...
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Hummer won't stop U.S. production, sale to new owners complete by OctoberPoor sales, growing public concern for the environment and the recession have all added up to weaken General Motors’ chances of finding many buyers for Hummer but the struggling automaker confirmed last week that at least one company was interested in the sale. That company was Chinese...
Ralph Hanson