GFerg

Beach Blanket Hummer: Buggy version of Hummer reportedly in GM's future
JULIAN RENDELL
Posted Date: 10/26/05


General Motors’ future product plan includes a back-to-basics, go-anywhere Hummer H4—a rough-and-tough competitor for the Jeep Wrangler. The fourth Hummer could be on sale by 2008 or 2009.

A GM source confirms the company is looking for ways of making a small Hummer on its various sport/utility vehicle and pickup platforms. GM engineers and designers are working on the project, but a chassis for the vehicle has yet to be selected. One possibility is a two-seater, focused on the most rugged off-roading possible, similar to the Hummer dune buggy we illustrated earlier this year (“A Hummer Buggy,” May 9).

“It’s a matter of finding the right combination of rugged components and how we can package them into a vehicle smaller than the H3,” says the source. “The main design factor is that any vehicle with a Hummer badge has to be the most capable off-road, period.”

One possibility is to use a shortened version of GM’s small pickup platform, which underpins the new H3.

GM product czar Bob Lutz is believed to be a big supporter of the H4, and as a former boss of Jeep he knows the competition intimately.

Hummer is also unlikely to launch a second range of soft-roaders, a move that Jeep is taking to exploit sales with owners who don’t need its “Trail Tested” off-road abilities.

“It’s not the right time to be rounding off the corners of the Hummer range yet,” our source says.

GFerg

GM and HUMMER make me sick. Let it go already.

mmarshall

Look at that grille and short wheelbase. At first glance, I thought that WAS a Wrangler.

Inabj2

I cant wait for the H5 comes out! based off course on the chevy aveo!

Technics

enoughs enough

Stage3

iTrader: (3)

GM is trying to milk the Hummer name for all its worth. In the process they are killing it, little by little. Only Hummer I would by is the one still made at the Old AM General Factory... and thats the H1.


GM can choke on all those POS H2, H3, H4 and every other H they want to create.

***edit*** maybe I should go grab the Copyrights to the H5 and beyond so we can end this madness once and for all!

Richie

Milking it dry

GRAND_LS 4

iTrader: (2)

Exactly my words.

O. L. T.

iTrader: (17)

I can't wait for the 2035 H36, i hear they have most of the bugs worked out.

Leets

I would laugh at this... except that, in all honesty, I wouldn't put it past GM. It's only a matter of time before every GM chassis has a "Hummer" body on it.

LexFather

Hummer=cool
H2=played
H3=ghey
H4=super dooper ooper ghey

Any questions?

TLW

LOL Chevy Cavalier.. the hummer edition

Richie

I do, why do you mention H2 twice?