HUMMER News

Everyone has a breaking point. Apparently, AAA wanted to see where people would draw the line with gas prices, and to no one's surprise, two-thirds of those surveyed believe gas prices are too high now. Shocking, we know. The people who do believe gas prices are too high have countered ...    Read more

Missed the HUMMER or the Humvee on which it was based? Well, if you're good with tools and willing to lay down at least $60,000, AM General may be able to satisfy your wish. We posted a rumor back in August that AM General, which builds the original Humvees and ...    Read more

Just a few days after Ford agreed to a four-year contract with the Canadian Auto Workers, General Motors agreed to the same terms with the union late last night. GM's four-year deal calls for the creation or maintaining of 1,750 jobs and an investment of $675 million for ...    Read more

Even though he was CEO of General Motors for a grand total of 10 months and has repeatedly self-proclaimed not to be a "car guy," Edward Whitacre Jr. still believes that the government should sell its shares in General Motors off quickly. This isn't the first time Whitacre has called ...    Read more

In the early 1990s, America's not-yet-favorite Governator said he wanted one of the Persian Gulf War's hero cars: An AM General Humvee. Back then he often got what he wanted, so the military vehicle producer followed suit in pleasing the Terminator actor. Several thousand units later, from 1992 to 2006, ...    Read more

Rough. Rugged. Indestructible. You could be describing a tank, but you could also be describing the closest civilian equivalent: The Hummer. While people know Hummers as an ideal choice to tackle tough terrain, a couple architects from HPlusF saw the Hummer in a light no one could ever dream-up: a ...    Read more

General Motors announced today it was voluntarily recalling 198,000 2006-2010 Hummer H3 and H3Ts because a piece of the hood can shake loose and detach while driving. Read full article at Automobile Magazine

As previously posted, General Motors is winding down its HUMMER brand. Nearly 153 dealerships are affected. GM, to speed sales of the last remaining 2000+ SUVs, is offering $4000 in rebates on remaining 2010 H3 and H3T models. 2009 H3 and H2 models buyers receive a $6000 rebate. ...    Read more

If you want a HUMMER, you’d better buy one now. General Motors, as it struggled through bankruptcy last year, tried to sell the HUMMER brand to Sichuan Tengzhong of China. The Chinese government, however, nixed the sale. GM, ever the optimist, said ...    Read more

General Motors has been caught up in some dramatic sales of brands during the last year or so. It looked like the Saab deal was dead, and then Spyker came through and acquired the brand. It appeared that the Penske Group was going to purchase Saturn, but that deal died ...    Read more

One adage that is well in the front of the minds of executives at General Motors is, “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.” The lesson has become all to clear. General Motors thought it had a buyer for Saturn only to see the deal fall through. The Saab deal was ...    Read more

We’ve been hearing so much about the sale of Saab, Volvo, and other brands, we almost forgot about the sale of GM's HUMMER brand to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines of China.A contract agreeing to the deal was signed by Tengzhong and GM in October 2009. The deal was supposed ...    Read more

You think HUMMER's going away? Think again.As the deal between General Motors and Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industry Machinery moves slowly to fruition, plans are already being made about the brand’s future. According to Automobile Magazine , the deal would call for GM to manufacture the H3 for Sichuan for ...    Read more

It shouldn’t be long now before General Motors finally announces a deal with Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Corp. concerning the sale of Hummer.There are two thoughts on what's going to happen to the SUV brand once the Chinese get their hands on it. Optimists believe that Hummer will get ...    Read more

DETROIT and SICHUAN, Oct., 2009 - General Motors (GM) and Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery *** Ltd (Tengzhong), announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement that will allow Tengzhong to acquire GM's premium all-terrain HUMMER brand. Under the terms of the definitive agreement, the buyer will acquire ...    Read more

The high emissions and fuel consumption of Hummers is a main reason why people buy them, according to research from the US. ...    Read more

The Chinese manufacturer Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Corp., whom many believe will be acquiring Hummer, will most likely place its headquarters in Michigan, Illinois.It is expected that the company would employ about 100 people at the headquarters to start. The headquarters would include design and engineering capability, product planning, ...    Read more

While car sales in Russia have fallen 50% this year, thanks largely to the global recession, one brand saw its fortunes rise. Hummer has doubled its year-over-year sales to more than 900 vehicles even as the rest of Russian auto sales tanked. Full Article

If you're in the market for a Hummer and a firearm, we've found the perfect place for you: Lynch Hummer in St. Louis, Missouri. Full Article

The albatross around General Motors's neck known as Hummer is about to be unloaded Bloomberg reports Chinese heavy machine manufacturer Sichuan Tengzhong will be buying the brand.possibly as early as this week. Executives from the Sichuan Tengzhong are expected to visit Detroit for more negotiations with General Motors and ...    Read more

Nothing screams macho cool more than a Hummer and so it’s a fantastic fit for the military gangs from new action adventure G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Full Article

Soon-to-be-sold HUMMER brand is leaving the nest and parent General Motors. Nashville Business Journal reports the company is looking to relocate its headquarters to other parts of the US where other automakers are clustered. Nashville, Tennessee, is currently one potential site.Our take? We wonder if future HUMMER owner ...    Read more

Has conservationists and other green interests won its “war” against the Hummer? We’ve all heard stories about Hummers and their ownersbeing abused due to their bad reputation on the environment. Thus, it's interesting to here that Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery, the new owner of Hummer, believes that a “green” ...    Read more

When it was apparent to General Motors that its Hummer brand was presenting problems, it turned to the head of its Cadillac division, Jim Taylor, and assigned him to prepare it for possible spin off.Now GM is selling it to a Chinese company, Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company Ltd. ...    Read more

Hummer is going to a Chinese company. It's official, or pretty close as a press release can be. And people in the know say that the buyer is Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery. Tengzhong is involved in road construction, plastics, resins and other industrial products, but is not involved ...    Read more