Hummer H1 vehicle discontinued

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/sarcasm No one could have seen this coming:
DETROIT, May 12 (Reuters) - General Motors Corp. (GM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Friday it will stop building the gas-guzzling Hummer H1 truck, a military-style status symbol with poor sales, and focus its resources instead on better-selling vehicles.

The last H1s, which get about 10 miles per gallon, will roll out in June, the automaker said. The H1 is the foundation for GM's Hummer brand.

"We are discounting it because it's a low volume niche vehicle and we will dedicate our resources now to produce smaller-sized and higher-volume vehicles for Hummer," said Dayna Hart, GM spokeswoman for the Hummer brand.

GM sold 374 H1s in 2005, down 16 percent from 2004.

AM General LLC makes the H1, and also builds the Humvee, the military vehicle on which the truck is based.

AM General will convert all its assembly lines from retail production of the H1 to the building of Humvee models for the military, Hart said, adding that no jobs will be lost.

The H1, GM's biggest and most expensive model, sells for between $130,00 and $140,000.

The world's largest automaker, which lost $10.6 billion in 2005, is in the midst of a broad restructuring to stem losses and adjust itself to a shrinking U.S. market share.

Dissident-turned-director Jerry York, who serves as an adviser to GM's largest individual shareholder, Kirk Kerkorian, has criticized management for not moving fast enough into "crisis mode" and in January suggested the automaker eliminate the Saab and Hummer brands.

GM will continue to build the H2 and H3 sport-utility vehicles under the Hummer brand, Hart said.

The H1 was first marketed to the public as the Hummer in 1992 by AM General. Hollywood actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, now governor of California, was AM General's first civilian customer.

GM bought marketing rights to the Hummer name in 1999 and called it the Hummer H1.
http://today.reuters.com/business/newsArticle.aspx?type=basicIndustries&storyID=nN12330734
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So they're scrapping the only remotly capable hummer now? That seems... odd.
 
Apparently, it isn't selling well at all with 374 H1s sold in 2005, and with fuel costs up, this is likely to only get worse.

The good news is that no jobs will be lost, and at under 10 miles per gallon, the environment says "thanks!"
 
The h1 is the only off road capable vehicle. I pitty the rich fools who buy H2s and go off road.
 
I hope they don't sell or discontinue the Saab brand. "Saab. Built from jets." That turbo coupe convertible is bad ass.
 
Too bad the H2 and H3's just suck, add insult to injury, my friends 4 cylinder lifted wrangler had to pull an H2 out of an area were it got stuck in at the beach, note how I say 4 CYLINDER. :laugh:
 
Humvees pwn all hummers, bar none.

Then again, if I remember right, they're street illegal because of their emmisions :/
 
They should discontinue all Hummers, the only people who buy them are middle-aged men that are so homophobic they don't even touch their penis when they urinate, and soccer moms who fill their kids up with carbs and sugar to shut them up.

BUY A ****ING VOLVO IF YOU WANT SPACE! DON'T HOG THE ROAD IN YOUR SUV PIECE OF SHIT!

Unless it's a Land Rover, they are quality.
 
You'll still be able to pick up a Humvee from military auctions. No biggie.
 
No, they strip 'em down. Well, they might leave the armor plating on there, I dunno. No AC, either.
 
Dalamari said:
They should discontinue all Hummers, the only people who buy them are middle-aged men that are so homophobic they don't even touch their penis when they urinate, and soccer moms who fill their kids up with carbs and sugar to shut them up.

BUY A ****ING VOLVO IF YOU WANT SPACE! DON'T HOG THE ROAD IN YOUR SUV PIECE OF SHIT!
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QFT
 
Dalamari said:
They should discontinue all Hummers, the only people who buy them are middle-aged men that are so homophobic they don't even touch their penis when they urinate, and soccer moms who fill their kids up with carbs and sugar to shut them up.

BUY A ****ING VOLVO IF YOU WANT SPACE! DON'T HOG THE ROAD IN YOUR SUV PIECE OF SHIT!

Unless it's a Land Rover, they are quality.
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qfmft
 
We don't need more SUV's, we don't need more gas guzzlers. Discontinue all the cars that don't have a certain, high numbered miles per gallon ratio.
 
Raziaar said:
We don't need more SUV's, we don't need more gas guzzlers. Discontinue all the cars that don't have a certain, high numbered miles per gallon ratio.
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but what about Ford GT, Bugatti etc...? keep them
 
Raziaar said:
Discontinue all the cars that don't have a certain, high numbered miles per gallon ratio.
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concidering that the rating ststem is flawed for mpg until 2008 in north america at least
 
Raziaar said:
We don't need more SUV's, we don't need more gas guzzlers. Discontinue all the cars that don't have a certain, high numbered miles per gallon ratio.
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How about...no

speed is fun, you can enjoy going 30 in your VW Lupo while we all overtake you on the motorway
 
Raziaar said:
We don't need more SUV's, we don't need more gas guzzlers. Discontinue all the cars that don't have a certain, high numbered miles per gallon ratio.
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You don't need a more powerful computer, you don't need to play games. Discontinue all the PCs that don't have a 486DX266 processor.
 
Parrot of doom said:
You don't need a more powerful computer, you don't need to play games. Discontinue all the PCs that don't have a 486DX266 processor.
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Our computer gaming isn't really squandering a dwindling natural resource that effects people worldwide, is it?
 
Parrot of doom said:
Yes it is. Or perhaps your computer runs from Clarky's free energy?
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My computer runs on electric power from a hydroelectric dam.

To my knowledge, that's not squandering a dwindling natural resource, nor does it affect people worldwide.
 
Steve said:
My computer runs on electric power from a hydroelectric dam.

To my knowledge, that's not squandering a dwindling natural resource, nor does it affect people worldwide.
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Well, you're using that energy, so some on the edge of that plant's grid are going to have to get theirs from the next plant, which is probably an oil or coal plant.
 
spookymooky said:
Well, you're using that energy, so some on the edge of that plant's grid are going to have to get theirs from the next plant, which is probably an oil or coal plant.
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That's like saying if I got a job, I'm responsible for the fact that the guy I beat out has to mortgage his house.

And, no. The next nearest plant is nuclear.
 
Steve said:
That's like saying if I got a job, I'm responsible for the fact that the guy I beat out has to mortgage his house.

And, no. The next nearest plant is nuclear.
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Yep. It's also like saying that because I drink a glass of water to nourish my body, I'm causing another person to go thirsty and deprived.
 
If there were a limited number of jobs, or glasses of water that would be true.
 
Steve said:
My computer runs on electric power from a hydroelectric dam.

To my knowledge, that's not squandering a dwindling natural resource, nor does it affect people worldwide.
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It uses some obscene, insane, amazing amount of oil just to produce a vehicle, and an unbelievable amount of oil to produce a computer. I can give you a link, but you will get very very depressed while reading it.
 
VirusType2 said:
It uses some obscene, insane, amazing amount of oil just to produce a vehicle, and an unbelievable amount of oil to produce a computer. I can give you a link, but you will get very very depressed while reading it.
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I'd love to see the link, and I was under the impression that the "oil" used for plastics was synthetic.
 
plastic is made in a refinery from crude oil. by nature its synthetic, but you have to synthesize it from oil to begin with.
 
Steve said:
I'd love to see the link, and I was under the impression that the "oil" used for plastics was synthetic.
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I don't think it's possible to produce "synthetic" oil that has the same properties as crude warwine.
 
Ahhh. Fair enough.

I'll give up my PC if you give up yours.

Wait, **** that. I drive a Civic.

I'm even.
 
VirusType2 said:
It uses some obscene, insane, amazing amount of oil just to produce a vehicle, and an unbelievable amount of oil to produce a computer. I can give you a link, but you will get very very depressed while reading it.
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This?

Computers use oil
Meanwhile, the expanding use of desktop computers is consuming more fossil fuels and chemicals, according to a new United Nations University study.

That study found that the manufacture of an average desktop computer and monitor consumes more than 10 times its weight in fossil fuels and chemicals, making computers more materials-intensive than the manufacture of cars and refrigerators, which require only 1-2 times their weight in fossil fuel.

The study found that construction of an average 24-kg computer and 27-cm monitor requires at least 240 kg of fossil fuel, 22 kg of chemicals, and 1,500 kg of water¿"or 1.8 tons in total, the equivalent of a rhinoceros or sports utility vehicle," said UNU officials.

More than 130 million computers are being sold each year, they said.
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Not to mention the gas thing a lot of people don't like it simply because it's UNCOMFORTABLE.

H2 is much better for regular driving.

H1 is designed for exactly that, military/excursion driving. It's great if you're off roading. But you definately don't want to have to sit in the cramped ass passenger seat for longer than you have to.
 
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