Jalopnik: GM Killing Hummer H2 After 2011

[psycho]

Originally Posted by TRWRacing

Looks like an oversized AMC Jeep

Well, what can I say!

[DRTY]

Originally Posted by steinravnik

I like off road vehicles, I own an Xterra Off Road. I use mine off road all the time. However, I have yet to see an H2 on any trails that I've been on.

I would consider a Wrangler-sized Hummer. But like someone else said, GM should just make it a Chevy and get rid of Hummer altogether.

You've obviously never been on the Rubicon or to Moab or any of the other trails for grown-ups.

[DRTY]

Originally Posted by Rocket 88

I always imagined how silly it was for people to buy hummers and play soldier while their countrymen were being killed in real hummers. As an eviro-nazis I who has pulled up next to Hummers, I always wondered why you would want to drive something so big and slow and capable of killing others in an accident from the excessive mass even though you had probably no intention of ever using the same vehicle for its built purpose of off road use....

Give it a rest, Nancy.

[member12]

Sales expectations are too high. This is only the first generation...they can't improve on them?

They can't sell 20,000 of these trucks a year in the USA alone. They may be able to worldwide, but for that they'd need less blingly styling, better durability, and diesel powertrains.

[BlacLac02]

so the hummer brand is going to be done away with or just the h2. i just recently bought an 07 h2 and i love the car. i couldnt say anything bad about it. there really is nothing like the car. no one else makes anything that is nearly as rugged and beastly as the h2.

[DuSpinnst]

Originally Posted by moman

This is a step in the right direction. Killing Hummer would be a good idea. There just doesn't exist a long term market for those kind of vehicles.

Until 2002 Jeep had this segment locked up. We then had the SUV fad and everyone became a mudder/wanna-be off roader, but that has dried up. Hummer MIGHT make it if they could differentiate themselves as the king of off-road vehicles now that Chrysler has turned Jeep into a jalopy, but Hummer has no future building moster SUVs with different bodies and interiors from the mainstream GM products.

Hummer has to go small to live. A Jeep Wrangler and Grand Cherokee competitor are enough.

So make the H3 a tad bigger (throw in a V6 instead of the I5/I4 as a base) and then make an H4, both should have diesel options. Kill the H2.

[Lichtronamo]

TTAC is reporting that GM has canned the whole HUMMER brand.

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/gm-...lug-on-hummer/


The "we might sell it" line in GRW's speech today was a red herring - how do you sell it when its just a brand with no independent facilities, infrastructure or technology?

[DuSpinnst]

Originally Posted by Lichtronamo

TTAC is reporting that GM has canned the whole HUMMER brand.

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/gm-...lug-on-hummer/


The "we might sell it" line in GRW's speech today was a red herring - how do you sell it when its just a brand with no independent facilities, infrastructure or technology?

GM bought the brand "rights" from AM General. They could see the "rights" to someone else.

[RamJet502]

Originally Posted by Lichtronamo

TTAC is reporting that GM has canned the whole HUMMER brand.

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/gm-...lug-on-hummer/


The "we might sell it" line in GRW's speech today was a red herring - how do you sell it when its just a brand with no independent facilities, infrastructure or technology?

What happened to the GMI thread about this article?