GM to sell Hummer to Chinese company

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: JSt0rm01

Originally posted by: IGBT
your obama is going to force us all into clown cars. big safe vehicles are gone till we throw the existing scum bags out of office.

you actually bring up a good point (although in your little mind I'm sure you didn't realize it) We need vehicles mandated on the road that the strong points all meet from every class of vehicle. All bumpers should be the same height and the t-impact on the side of the cars should also be at this standard height. This would reduce injuries and death more then everyone racing to get the biggest car/truck/suv.

as usual, your a day late,dollar short and took the wrong road. that criteria is already in place.

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Good move. Hummer dealerships across the US were dying. The brand was on life support. Nobody wanted to buy these pieces of shit after we had $4 gas last year. I'm surprised China wants to saddle themselves with a such a shitty brand.

I'm :laugh: at all the people who are defending Hummer. How about you show us a picture of your own Hummer?

show us a picture of your clown car.

 

[Squisher]

I couldn't figure out why the buyer was being kept secret. Now I know. It doesn't look too good from a PR perspective.

 

[Ackmed]

They arent real hummers anymore anyways.

 

[0marTheZealot]

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: Cuda1447
Eh, I dunno about that. I think thats a bit of a stretch, similar looks does not equate to similar technology. I am not surprised though, GM probably won't have a whole lot of large vehicles after all is said and done.

And with the loss of the large vehicles? ...profit... Good move Goverment Motors. :roll:

??

You do realize that the Hummer brand was basically an albatross on GM ever since gas hit $3/gallon.

GM was on life support because of the huge profit margins that SUVs give. When people stopped buying SUVs, GM just collapsed. They didn't have any backup plan, it was all in SUVs.

 

[JSt0rm]

Originally posted by: IGBT

Originally posted by: JSt0rm01

Originally posted by: IGBT
your obama is going to force us all into clown cars. big safe vehicles are gone till we throw the existing scum bags out of office.

you actually bring up a good point (although in your little mind I'm sure you didn't realize it) We need vehicles mandated on the road that the strong points all meet from every class of vehicle. All bumpers should be the same height and the t-impact on the side of the cars should also be at this standard height. This would reduce injuries and death more then everyone racing to get the biggest car/truck/suv.

as usual, your a day late,dollar short and took the wrong road. that criteria is already in place.

no a hummers bumper does not line up with a minicooper. Try again. Within classes you are correct but when you move out of that its wrong.

 

[smack Down]

Originally posted by: dphantom

Originally posted by: Strk
The military HMMVE isn't made by GM. It never was. GM bought (or leased, I don't know which) the rights to the name, then built a vehicle based on it: the H1. The H2 and H3 have nothing are based off of other GM vehicles.

This is correct. In fact the H2 is built on the Chevy Suburban chassis IIRC so except for body tooling, this is a very cheap vehicle for GM. High profit. Too bad Obama is forcing them to get rid of it.

As for the military version, as others have said, they are completely different from teh civilian version. The only thing that looks teh same is the body and that is just wiondow dressing. The underneath where it really counts is all different.

The H1 was nearly identical to the military HMMVE. They came off the same assembly line.

 

[fallout man]

Originally posted by: smack Down

The H1 was nearly identical to the military HMMVE. They came off the same assembly line.

AM General produced the H1, and sold the "brand name" to GM. GM never inherited the assembly line or the specs, as far as I know.

Regardless, the HMMVE is getting phased out, and it's not like the Chinese spies (engineers working here "legally") can't get their hands on the specs.

Good riddance to bad rubbish. The only thing the "Hummer" brand is good for is being the lead attention-whore vehicle in a redneck parade.

Edit: AWESOME SECRET MILITARY HUMMER TECHNOLOGY AT WORK:

LOL

 

[nullzero]

The Chinese are more interested in the methods, processes, and tools used to the make a advance vehicle. I am sure they will obtain all this knowledge with the purchase of Hummer.

 

[fallout man]

Originally posted by: nullzero
The Chinese are more interested in the methods, processes, and tools used to the make a advance vehicle. I am sure they will obtain all this knowledge with the purchase of Hummer.

a Yes. I also seek knowledge of producing shitty inefficient ugly vehicle. I shall obtain this knowledge by purchasing a Hyundai, and lots of reverse engineering. Plz to be helping with further suggestion.

 

[nullzero]

Originally posted by: fallout man

Originally posted by: nullzero
The Chinese are more interested in the methods, processes, and tools used to the make a advance vehicle. I am sure they will obtain all this knowledge with the purchase of Hummer.

a Yes. I also seek knowledge of producing shitty inefficient ugly vehicle. I shall obtain this knowledge by purchasing a Hyundai, and lots of reverse engineering. Plz to be helping with further suggestion.

Does not mean they will be making only large oversized SUVs. Once the Chinese got things down they could use the factory for; jeeps, compact cars, heavy duty military transports, construction machinery, etc. There is a lot more to building a car then most on here make it out to be.

 

[LegendKiller]

Originally posted by: nullzero
The Chinese are more interested in the methods, processes, and tools used to the make a advance vehicle. I am sure they will obtain all this knowledge with the purchase of Hummer.

lol. Yeah, stuff they couldn't get off of buying them and reverse-engineering them. You're such a tool.

 

[vhx]

Cool. America is being sold off to China piece by piece. But that's good, because Hummers suck. China, one of the most polluted countries wants the biggest gas guzzling car. Nice.