General Motors has announced that China’s Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines was unable to complete the acquisition of its Hummer brand. As a result of the failed sale, GM will begin to wind-down Hummer operations.
“One year ago, General Motors announced that we were going to divest Hummer, as part of focusing our efforts on Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac going forward. We have since considered a number of possibilities for Hummer along the way, and we are disappointed that the deal with Tengzhong could not be completed,” said John Smith GM vice president of corporate planning and alliances. “GM will now work closely with Hummer employees, dealers and suppliers to wind down the business in an orderly and responsible manner.”
As with the winding down of Pontiac and Saturn brands before this, GM has promised to honour Hummer warranties, provide service support and spare parts to Hummer owners around the world.
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Baibai Hummer… BMW X5 better
Other automakers will sure look to get this brand..right?
Brilliant news. At least it will kill off this monstrosity. Pathetic excuse for a motor vehicle, crap to drive and nothing more than a demonstration of crass wealth on wheels. Made popular by stupid rap 'artists' and bought by stupider people with more money than sense to ferry their hoes…
Better for VW to acquire this brand
Proton should go and buy Hummer and rebadge it under Proton. To see US military is using the Proton vehicles.
haha.. so lawak bro..
Good riddance to a lousy car propped up by hip-hopper nobodies and sports stars with more money than taste.
Time to bury this dinosaur… I think it is too polluted to run in China.. lolz
who want buy this lorry ah? waste money with thirsty giant only
its amazing with all the government contracts supplying to the military, and they still end up winding up. Not to mention all the rappers..haha
KS Teo said,
February 25, 2010 @ 12:23 pm
Proton should go and buy Hummer and rebadge it under Proton. To see US military is using the Proton vehicles.
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and then can put 1.6 cps turbo on it..keh keh keh!!
if Proton got the budget to acquire Hummer, we will have Proton Hummer. That will be something we should be proud of it
I think this Hummer beast is 'different' from the military humvee. That one, I think is still alive and kicking.
i think some other manufacturers should take over Hummer, remain its outlook and put some new tech inside, as well as a new engine….
Hummer engine is from dinosaur era….
I wonder wats d next replacement for d US military Hummer fleet.
D Hilux or d Chevy Escalade perhaps?
its cadillac escalade …not chevy
Another ROVER stories….
future spare parts is a challenge in our boleh-land…..dun think those grey importer will help to keep spare parts here….
Piece of junk 4×4 when it came out, and got progressively worse with each version. For off road capability they have no comparison to a Disco or Land cruiser, and for SUV luxury, nothing still compares to a Range Rover or Cayanne.
To all those Malaysians with more money than sense who bought one of these monstrosities over here, this serves you right. Next time do some proper research and stop making purchasing decisions with your d*&ks.
Nobody will purchase this brand as it is a crass example of everything that got the world into the current financial mess. Overblown, over hyped, to big, to glitzy, and underneath it all, nothing of any real substance.
Hummer, good bye, and good riddance.
SUV paling hodoh bg aku.. tp aku hairan sbb ramai org kaya2 minat hummer ni.. sanggup habis byk duit
only Hummer H1 is the real deal, from H2 onwards the models are just repackaged GM trucks.
Horatio need to look for other models….maybe the new cayenne
Good riddance. American Junk. Money can never buy taste.
To those crass tasteless Malaysians who own one (I've seen even 6 wheel conversions!), you deserve it. HAHA
Humvee is the miltary version, that continues in production. This is the tempias-perasan consumer brand. Worse chassis than even a Pajero Lo47. Rubbish, burn it if you see it
lol. horatio will always drive hummer, cause its cool…..just like him. hahahaha.
I do agree with some. It was meant for the military. You don't drive x6 to war don't you. To me H1 is the real and only hummer. The rest… unnecessary.
humvee for military is the best from all hummer model…others junks…
yah! American beast just a junks like harley for US looo! cowboys stail
our menteri also have one….guest who?
Plate no. 65 ahh?
Proton should buy this hummer (if they have the budget) work with lotus and re-tune the car to be more efficient,keep the size , get lotus to work on the handling as well, launch a new car to compete with cayenne. American is a big market …they can reap big profit. I reckon they need USD 2 Billion to do this, but they have prospect. They also can use Hummer network to distribute Lotus & New proton car ( 2010 and beyond) in America. They wont be able to sell much, but a small share of a big pie would do good.
Why wasting big bucks buying this stupid company?.. Better spend on R&D and start finding new market to export Proton own vehicles. This save a lot for Proton. Proton doesn’t need Hummer network or anything!!!!!!
GO SAGA said,
February 26, 2010 @ 12:55 am
our menteri also have one….guest who?
hahaha.. mat lidah kontot @ KDN
Good they'll be gone, they're sore in the eyes. Piece of junk.
They say GM's winding down process for the Hummer brand is known as "Saab-ing".
have u guys – andrew, lupa dah nick name lame & etc- ever driven a hummer H3 at least? pity u all are just plain jealous couldnt own one. hahahah…suckers!!..best solution for self pity= bashing hummer owners in malaysia….hahahah
agree H1 alpha is the best but H2 is nice considering that's the only choice we have in Malaysia for super beast bad ass SUV…its the image & size tht sells idiots not the efficiency! it's for guys to make big statement of himself. and i sure do want one.
sean zx10… maybe i know u… you are 25 year old?
BTW i like this car so so much. hope HUMMER can survive this difficult time.. good luck GM
sean ZX10 said,
February 28, 2010 @ 1:23 pm
have u guys – andrew, lupa dah nick name lame & etc- ever driven a hummer H3 at least? pity u all are just plain jealous couldnt own one. hahahah…suckers!!..best solution for self pity= bashing hummer owners in malaysia….hahahah
agree H1 alpha is the best but H2 is nice considering that’s the only choice we have in Malaysia for super beast bad ass SUV…its the image & size tht sells idiots not the efficiency! it’s for guys to make big statement of himself. and i sure do want one.
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Just because one can't own one doesn't hide the obvious fact that in the environmentally-sensitive world of today the Hummer is a dinosaur that should cease to exist. If it has performance like a supercar, then it's forgivable. But it doesn't. And it's image is that of never ending excess and waste. Only a totally crass person want to be associated with this image.
GO SAGA said,
February 26, 2010 @ 12:55 am
our menteri also have one….guest who?
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I thought he sold it? There's one celebrity who also got one and he thought chix would digg it. Apparently they don't. Guess who?
KRU?
The deal might be dead but there are other companies wanting Hummer. GM just needs to put it back up for sale while winding down operations. If they can get it sold before shutting it down then great. If not then oh well. The vehicle was never meant to be a commercial vehicle to begin with only for military use.If they would have had hummer stick with what it was meant for which is off roading not putting crap like spinners on it or all the bells and whistles and all the other crap in them then it would have fared better. I know of one company who before really was itching to get their hands on the brand which is RASER tech. If GM is smart they would approach them and others who expressed interest in buying the brand if all are still interested start a bidding process on it.
Better to get rid of these gas guzzling abortions and invest in electric vehicles using modern, currently available lithium iron phosphate technology which has four times the energy density of lead acid cells, needs no maintenance and is 1/4 the size and weight per cell when compared to lead acid cells. There is your 1000km/650mile range right there.