Humvee
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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 vehicle, the Hummer H1. Based in Detroit, MSA has assembled its first reimagined H1 and dubbed it the Launch Edition 001. The Launch Edition 001 has been rebodied, rebuilt, and rebooted in the power department. Hardened aerospace grade aluminum is used for the new body on the H1 bones. It features...
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Meet the NXT 360, the next-generation Humvee
The Hummer brand may have bit the dust last decade, but Humvee is still kicking. And the next-generation Humvee, the NXT 360, wants to kick some butt on the battlefield. AM General debuted the new Humvee on Monday in Paris, France, at a defense and security exhibition and detailed the changes that...
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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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New Oshkosh JLTV military vehicle replaces well-known Humvee
The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, or Humvee as it's more commonly known, has served the United States military since 1984. More than 280,000 of them have been built, beat up, and used in far-flung places all around the globe. The U.S. military is ready to move on, though, which means...
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Humvee Auction Hammers Home Strong Prices
The U.S. Military recently held its first-ever public auction of its surplus Humvee supply, and the results were good. Each Humvee had a starting price of $10,000, but the average transaction price was around $30,000. The lowest someone paid to take home one of the brutes was $21,500, while a...
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Here's Your Chance To Get A Military-Surplus Humvee Or A Lamborghini LM002
Militaristic off-roaders are hitting the auction block at a variety of price points
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The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, more commonly known as the Humvee, has been the general purpose vehicle of choice for the U.S. military since 1984. Deployed in operations worldwide, the Humvee’s versatility and go-anywhere design even spawned the now-defunct Hummer civilian brand. Times are changing for the military, which now finds itself embroiled in urban combat, for which the standard Humvee is less than ideal. As the U.S. military phases out the Humvee, its maker, AM General, believes the hardcore off-roader may still have life left in it. As Hummer Guy (via...
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Meet The Foxhound, Britain's Latest Military Vehicle: Video
As the face of modern warfare changes, so do expectations for military vehicles. General-purpose models like the Jeep and the early Land Rover, as well as their evolutionary counterparts, the Humvee and the Snatch Land Rover, were based on old-school warfare, with an established front line. Recent...
Kurt Ernst