And from Carbuzz.com

GMC Axed V8-Powered Jimmy Revival To Pay For Hummer EV Development

 

why is that site not to be named?

 

It's a competitor. It has news gathered and written by actual staff writers, even though a lot of it is non-news or specutlative. GMI is more "of the people, by the people".

 

That would've been a pretty cool vehicle had they made it.

 

I don't even want to read the article........

 

What a shame. We get this absolute pig of a Ev Hummer instead. Oh well, Jeep and Ford both sell neat SUV’s like the Bronco and Wrangler.

 

I wonder if the V8 would have been the 5.3 or the 6.2?----Interesting!

 

Was there no way to just make a 2 door shorter wheelbase yukon, give it a slight lift, and done.... Jimmy? would it be too wide? I dont get it, trucks are popular and seems like ez part bin cash grab even if low seller.

 

Yukon is too civilized anymore to be an easy off-road choice.

 

Beancounters, don't you just love them?

 

Bean counters are ruining our cars!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

GM followers have been saying for years GMC should offer something more Jeep-like and GM was finally going to do it. What a disappointment! Ford sold 94,031 Broncos in 2022 and 85,263 in the first 2 quarters of this year. In all of 2022 GM sold 371 Hummers. In 2023 through quarter 2 they sold 49. Gee, I wonder if GM made the right move cancelling the Jimmy.

 

I wonder why fans of the Hummer EV keep saying the those numbers aren't accurate. If I'm going by how I haven't seen a single one out in the wild I'd bet they are correct. I do see Broncos everywhere in California.

 

GM followers have been saying for years GMC should offer something more Jeep-like and GM was finally going to do it. What a disappointment! Ford sold 94,031 Broncos in 2022 and 85,263 in the first 2 quarters of this year. In all of 2022 GM sold 371 Hummers. In 2023 through quarter 2 they sold 49. Gee, I wonder if GM made the right move cancelling the Jimmy.

To be fair, the Hummer EV is a bit of a halo vehicle not meant for volume sales. It's meant to prove to the world that GM can build an interesting EV. Unfortunately the journos just harp on the weight and how large/heavy it is. Plus to a degree we know the sales figures are due to battery/materials shortages.

That being said, the topic here saddens me. Maybe GMC is going to shrink the Hummer EV aka the H3 EV. That would be interesting.

 

Maybe GMC is going to shrink the Hummer EV aka the H3 EV. That would be interesting.

It would be even more interesting if GMC names the shrunk version "GMC Hummer Jimmy EV"! 😎

 

Until we hear it from GM this is all hearsay, no patents were filed for the name, no spy shots, no design sketches....nothing except an article on a competitor's website. Naturally, everyone loses their mind.

 

Explain to me why they couldn't just chop the Colorado/Canyon a few feet? That platform already has a ton of off-road gear available. (Yes I know they would have had to modify the roof, but not anymore than Ford did with the Bronco/Ranger). IE, if Ford can do it, why not GM?

 

Explain to me why they couldn't just chop the Colorado/Canyon a few feet? That platform already has a ton of off-road gear available. (Yes I know they would have had to modify the roof, but not anymore than Ford did with the Bronco/Ranger). IE, if Ford can do it, why not GM?

Of course they could do it but all their monies are tied up in EV development. That's why I think we'd see a Hummer H3 EV before we'd see one built on GMT 31XX-2.

 

In 2017? All they had was the Bolt, that didn't take up that much funding....and with a company as big as GM they had the funds to do the "Jimmy" but they must not have thought there'd be a market for it so they passed. The Bronco was barely a whisper then and the Wrangler was/is an anachronism from a 2-trick pony of a manufacturer. It's not like they had the actual cash on hand when they began full-blown EV development, if they had thought that it'd sell or there would be a market they definitely would have had the money to do it, especially considering 90% of the truck was developed and all they really needed was the back of the body. Yeah, I don't think EV funding had anything to do with it. EV's can't always be the scapegoat.

 

In 2017? All they had was the Bolt, that didn't take up that much funding....and with a company as big as GM they had the funds to do the "Jimmy" but they must not have thought there'd be a market for it so they passed. The Bronco was barely a whisper then and the Wrangler was/is an anachronism from a 2-trick pony of a manufacturer. It's not like they had the actual cash on hand when they began full-blown EV development, if they had thought that it'd sell or there would be a market they definitely would have had the money to do it, especially considering 90% of the truck was developed and all they really needed was the back of the body. Yeah, I don't think EV funding had anything to do with it. EV's can't always be the scapegoat.

I was thinking current day. My mistake. A SUV BOF counterpart to the new 3rd gen Colorado.

 

Ah.
I don't know why they didn't just finish the job but it scares me to think of how expensive it would be. A Colorado is an easy $45-$50K, the "Jimmy" would easily beat that by $10K just for putting a box on the back of the truck. Instead of this mid-size V8 powered compensator, why can't they do a modern FWD based reinterpretation of the S-10/Sonoma Maverick competitor? Oh wait, they have one....the Montana, just stick the Equinox 1.5T in it with the 9 speed auto, offer FWD and AWD versions (heck, bolt up Voltec to the FWD or even both) and price it to start at $25K. Ford is making a killing selling every ticking time bomb of an engine fire that is the Maverick hybrid (the engine is the source of the fire, they go "boom", not the hybrid part). That is where the money is, not a 50,000 unit per year Bronco/Wrangler competitor. A lot of people on GMI say that GM should build this or build that but when they do, those people don't buy it....and when GM kills it they complain. Guess they should have bought what they asked for.

 

Yukon is too civilized anymore to be an easy off-road choice.

yukon bones gives us a v8 jimmy tho

 

Yukon is too civilized anymore to be an easy off-road choice.

yukon bones gives us a v8 jimmy tho

Yup. If they really wanted to it could be a proper off road 4X4. ... again.

 

Looking out at the garage… Me thinks one would be sitting in it if they made one. I would be all ears for even just a two door Yukon GT. I think the Sierra would not exist. But a midsize V8 BOF SUV… Yup would have loved it. What might have been…

For what is worth a 2024 Sierra Denali Reserve with a 5.3L in the same color combo as current one is broadcast to be built at status 3400. I had to get rid of the the loud AT tires on the 2022 Denali with 20 inch rims. So GM did get money from me and plenty of it. Guess they didn’t lose too many sales after all. After I considered doing 22s and new tires on the 2022, it was a no brainer to upgrade. Broke my rule of no sunroofs too. Was cheaper to get it with the Reserve package than 22s alone with technology package stand alone as well.

 

Considering development times or lead times for the automotive industry, yes I bet they knew full well what direction things were going well ahead of now.

 

This is what we get from lower case gm. Cancelled product that infringe on their EV focused outlook.