Hummer deal to Chinese company dead...brand to be shut down

[Reschke]

Well it looks like the Chinese will not be buying up the Hummer brand and it will die right along side the Saturn brand as well. Loosing Saturn was worse than loosing the Hummer brand in my opinion. I love my AWD 6 cyl Saturn Vue and was hoping to keep it for a long time.

http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/1313/hummer-at-dead-end-after-sale-to-chinese-collapses/

[saggs]

As long as AM General continues to get military contracts Hummer will not die.

What's dieing is the GM bastardization of the genuine AMG product, and I won't miss them a bit.

I wonder if in hindsight AMG regrets selling it's namesake to GM.    Before the H2 when people though Hummer they thought of something amazing, something out of their budget that most people only dreamed about.  Heck, I new a kid in High School that thought they were so awesome he joined the Army N.G. just so he could drive one.  They thought of one of the most versatile all-purpose vehicles ever built. 

Then GM got greedy built and the H2, now when people thing of Hummer they think of a glorified Tahoe that can't climb a gentle grassy slope, and breaks tie rods like toothpicks.  You'd think that has to sting the folks at AMG a little bit.

[trax1]

Anyone heard anything about GM phasing out Pontiac too?  I know last April I read an article saying that they were either get rid of the whole line, or scale it down to just 2 cars.  I haven't heard anything more about it since though. 

[Reschke]

Yeah Trax in the same article it mentions that Pontiac is still on the chopping block. I know that it is beginning to get hard to locate the last sedan that Pontiac made so maybe they are/have scaled production way back.

As for the Hummer line I really didn't like the GM version.

Whenever I think of a Hummer I will always think of the big bastage that takes up at least a lane of traffic. I remember getting to drive one back in 1990 from the depot in Montgomery, AL to my dad's unit in Selma, AL (I was a paid worker by the US Army to help them get loaded up for deployment to the first Gulf War.) and it was my job with a few other son's of troops to go pickup all kinds of new vehicles that were scheduled to leave with them. I broke that sucker in good by taking it back to Selma on back roads, dirt roads, clear cuts with junk all in it. I think I used a tank of fuel for that 45 mile highway drive and I had to stop and put it in the wash rack at the OMS shop before driving it back through the gate. I drove everything from the Jeep's that they had to turn in to replace with Hummers and the old M825 Cargo which got replaced by the M923/925 that replaced the older similar ones which I think were the M811 series. My favorite was an OshKosh Tank hauler M911/M747. That SOB was HUGE!!!! We had it loaded with 2 M113's headed over one day and it was bouncing all over the road like a drunk college girl at a frat party.

[allaire]

The Hemmet is one of the nicest looking vehicles in the US inventory.

[Reschke]

Never got to drive one of those but I do like the way they look.

[Maverick]

You guys do realize it's not the GI style hummer that's going away. It's the civilian pasty imitation. Losing that is no great loss.

[sluggish]

The Hemmet is one of the nicest looking vehicles in the US inventory.

My MOS was 63S H8.  That means I drove a Hemmet wrecker.  92 thousand pounds of pure badness.  It could recover anything in the US inventory to include the M1.  Eight wheel drive with locking diifs.  We would intentionally get them stuck just to practice block and tackle recovery.

[Masherbrum]

You guys do realize it's not the GI style hummer that's going away. It's the civilian pasty imitation. Losing that is no great loss.

Correct.   

[rpm]

What will pretentious jerks drive now?

[mensa180]

Lexus .

[Reschke]

You guys do realize it's not the GI style hummer that's going away. It's the civilian pasty imitation. Losing that is no great loss.

Yeah but now we are talking about real vehicles and not some stupid abortion of a good off road vehicle.

[lagger86]

There are plenty of jobless people in the states that would build them, but they require a decent wage....so F that, if they can't get built cheap by another country...just shut it down...beats cutting into the mega corp's profits. No wonder this country is going to crap.l

[Meatwad]

There are plenty of jobless people in the states that would build them, but they require a decent wage....so F that, if they can't get built cheap by another country...just shut it down...beats cutting into the mega corp's profits. No wonder this country is going to crap.l

Exactly

[Reschke]

There are plenty of jobless people in the states that would build them, but they require a decent wage....so F that, if they can't get built cheap by another country...just shut it down...beats cutting into the mega corp's profits. No wonder this country is going to crap.l

In the bold and italicized item above; their is a difference in a decent wage and a unionized forced wage. All GM plants have the UAW in them and the only people getting any decent wage out of that are the union bosses and the politicians that they have to grease up to keep the unions in place. BUT then this thread is soon headed into politics so its best if we just stop it now.