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Postby General Forestry on Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:13 pm

OK. Part of GM's proposal to save money and try to make a difference was a proposal to scratch their Hummer line. Now, how would this affect the Humvee productions? Would they still continue if GM would discontinue Hummer?
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Re: HUMMER

Postby Goliath on Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:11 am

It will have no effect since Hummers aren't GM vehicles anyway. AM General is the one that makes the Humvee and AM General, which remains an independent company and government and military contractor, sold the rights to the Hummer name to General Motors in 1999 but continues to build the vehicles for GM, except for the H3 which is assembled in GM factories.
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Re: HUMMER

Postby Hobilar on Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:42 am

I suspect that the reason they are closing the production line is twofold. Firstly nobody can get credit to buy them any more AND secondly because they are such enviromentally unfriendly vehicles that any owner is going to be crippled by the Road Tax.
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Re: HUMMER

Postby General Forestry on Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:20 am

I see, well I did not know that the design was sold to GM. I thought GM had been apart of the design and manufacturing process for Humvee since the beginning.

Yes, Hobilar. they are very environmentally unfriendly vehicles. But so is my big Dodge Ram pickup truck :D
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Re: HUMMER

Postby Luther Sloan on Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:59 pm

So is a Peterbuilt, but we still use those.
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