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General Motors has flat out said that they wish to either totally phase out the HUMMER brand or sell it off. They said that they continue to talk with buyers.
Does anyone have any predictions on who the HUMMER buyer may be?
Many of the people that I talk to say that it will probably be sold SAIC of China. Also known as Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation.
The original Hummer is/was something, the other versions are just your average SUV, a disgrace to the name if you ask me, but I'm not a GM fan so I'm not too worried about it's fate.
i don't think anyone will. warranted or not, they've become the poster-child for 'what is wrong with America'. no one wants to try and deal with that stigma.
Let it die. Anything past H1 is nothing more than a GM SUV with different body panels and a jacked up price tag. I love my big SUV tow rigs, and still wouldn't miss the Hummer at all.
The original company wanted to try to copy the success of the original Jeep. Difference is the Jeep is small, light, fuel efficient (for this type of vehicle in it's time), and can drive on virtually all roads around the world. The original HUMMER could not do this and it was hugely thirsty. I only wish Chrysler had continued using an inline 6 in the Jeep. Not a fast engine but very reliable and was easy to work on. Ford, Chrysler, and GM all had good reliable inline 6 engines. Why couldn't they have used the same engine but with fuel injection and other technological advances? Cousin use to have a dodge truck with a slant 6 engine. Though the truck was falling apart from his abuse, that engine kept on running.
i don't think anyone will. warranted or not, they've become the poster-child for 'what is wrong with America'. no one wants to try and deal with that stigma.
Mike
I don't know that it represents everything wrong with America, but certainly just about everything wrong with the American auto industry. Running around with blinders on, and still just looking down at the ground.
Hummer buyers are and will always be the same- emasculated, insecure men desperately overcompensating and their aspirational wives using 7000lb vehicles as fashion accessories.
General Motors has flat out said that they wish to either totally phase out the HUMMER brand or sell it off. They said that they continue to talk with buyers.
Does anyone have any predictions on who the HUMMER buyer may be?
Many of the people that I talk to say that it will probably be sold SAIC of China. Also known as Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation.
Hummer was, still is and will continue to be a niche product. And God knows how much debt/obligation Hummer has and China is well aware how big a problem Detroit Union is. If something could be worked out with regard to the level of debt buy has to inherit and labor cost, then yeah, indeed, China is the mostly likely buyer simply because China has a lot of newly riches who want precisely the kind of attention and even notoriety Hummer carries.
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Let it die...these vehicles have no purpose on the market.
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