Comments on: Exploratory Talks To Sell HUMMER To China Fall Through, GM Thoroughly Failing At “Courage Under Fire” http://www.ridelust.com/exploratory-talks-to-sell-hummer-to-china-fall-through-gm-epically-failing-at-courage-under-fire/ - Motion + Mobility Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:02:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Terry Parkhurst http://www.ridelust.com/exploratory-talks-to-sell-hummer-to-china-fall-through-gm-epically-failing-at-courage-under-fire/#comment-3697 Terry Parkhurst Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:26:14 +0000 http://www.ridelust.com/?p=3855#comment-3697 If you've ever ridden in the original Hummer, the H1, now no longer available to the civilian market, you'd know that you can go sideways on an incline; and put your hand out and touch the soil. (Yes, I have done that, thanks to a pal who sold them in the mid-Nineties at a Hummer dealership.) While the H3 is credible enough, from what I've read of its off-road exploits in the Baja 1000 race, the H2, configured using the read-end differentials of a GM truck, front and rear, is just an attempt to cash-in on the entire "branding" group think of GM. Tata bought Land Rover and Jaguar from Ford to get the proprietary four-wheel drive system of Land Rover. From published reports, Ford said, "It's a package deal," since it wanted to rid itself of Jaguar in the so-called worst way imaginable. So why would someone want to buy Hummer? The H1's underpinnings would be the key selling point, methinks. I doubt that any new owner would want to continue to sell the H2, now a collosal weight on the inventory of Hummer dealers, across the states; and the H3 would likely survive only with the smaller engine available, an in-line five-cylinder if memory serves. And GM shouldn't expect to make any money on the sale, only offset losses. But hey, when you lose $15.5 billion (USD) in a quarter, that's enough isn't it? If you’ve ever ridden in the original Hummer, the H1, now no longer available to the civilian market, you’d know that you can go sideways on an incline; and put your hand out and touch the soil. (Yes, I have done that, thanks to a pal who sold them in the mid-Nineties at a Hummer dealership.) While the H3 is credible enough, from what I’ve read of its off-road exploits in the Baja 1000 race, the H2, configured using the read-end differentials of a GM truck, front and rear, is just an attempt to cash-in on the entire “branding” group think of GM.

Tata bought Land Rover and Jaguar from Ford to get the proprietary four-wheel drive system of Land Rover. From published reports, Ford said, “It’s a package deal,” since it wanted to rid itself of Jaguar in the so-called worst way imaginable.

So why would someone want to buy Hummer? The H1′s underpinnings would be the key selling point, methinks. I doubt that any new owner would want to continue to sell the H2, now a collosal weight on the inventory of Hummer dealers, across the states; and the H3 would likely survive only with the smaller engine available, an in-line five-cylinder if memory serves.

And GM shouldn’t expect to make any money on the sale, only offset losses. But hey, when you lose $15.5 billion (USD) in a quarter, that’s enough isn’t it?

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