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[Wanderlusty]

If Hummer people would want a Colorada, thats what they would have gotten.

That is probably true, but if they underpinned the Colorado with some/all of the H3 goodies.....I think it would eat into Tacoma and Frontier market share....

 

[haven]

Four Wheeler Magazine has named the Hummer H3T its Pickup Truck
of the Year for 2009. Only new models are considered in the contest.
This year the competition included the Hummer H3T,
Dodge Ram 1500, Ford F-150, and the Suzuki Equator.

The story is not up on the magazine's web site today, but I assume it
will appear shortly http://www.fourwheeler.com/index.html

 

[Guinness44]

Saw an H3T today, with the slantback top, looks nice. Of course for EXPO, the square top would carry more gear.

 

[RocKrawler]

Remember this project assembled by GM engineers?

Anyone have a link to or more pics of that Colorado? Cant figure out my fascination with standard cab trucks when xtra & crew cab models are more practical & useful... something about the look

 

[haven]

It must be lonely at Hummer dealers these days. GM's accounting of 2008 vehicle sales shows only 692 H3Ts were sold since they were introduced last August. That means every Hummer dealer is paying interest to carry a couple of H3Ts on the lot.

Looking around on Autotrader.com, I see the list price of a H3T Alpha (5.3L V8) with 4x4 is about $43,000. Dealer asking price is around $38,500. I don't imagine it would be hard to shave a few thousand more off that price.

Chip Haven

 

[evldave]

It must be lonely at Hummer dealers these days. GM's accounting of 2008 vehicle sales shows only 692 H3Ts were sold since they were introduced last August. That means every Hummer dealer is paying interest to carry a couple of H3Ts on the lot.

Looking around on Autotrader.com, I see the list price of a H3T Alpha (5.3L V8) with 4x4 is about $43,000. Dealer asking price is around $38,500. I don't imagine it would be hard to shave a few thousand more off that price.

Chip Haven

Took my H3 in for service yesterday. One H3t on the lot (didn't get a chance to take a look), but not one single person on the showroom floor looking at cars or trucks (was Caddy/Hummer dealer). Meanwhile the service dept was backed up (they had 38 rentals go out that day before I got there).

I think part of it is the market - those people who would want an H3T probably already have a hummer, it may/may not be paid for, but no matter how you look at it, you're gonna eat a ton of $$ at trade-in. I'd be first in line if i wouldn't take a $8k hit on my truck. Until GM gives some sort of significant 'repeat buyer' discount, i'll be happily driving my H3 around

 

[Kurt]

Some places were selling H3T's discounted under Red Tag and GM Employee discount prices so you could get a few grand knocked off.

Hummer sales are dead, no new products to get people back in the show room [the H2 is a dead duck], H3 and varients is fine, but we need to see new products [ie. Wrangler style H4 product, etc].

The showrooms here [Orange County,CA] are dead, service side of business is good. Although when I had my H1 in during a maintenance open house day where the GM dealership let us use their facilities and tools to work on our trucks, I saw an loaded H2 sold out of the blue.

Overseas businessman came with his family, picked out the color he liked, didn't even bother to haggle.

We'll see what happens when the hummer buyer is announced in the next few weeks.

 

[6Pins]

I'm not so sure there is going to be a buyer for Hummer. China may have wanted it a while ago, but they are starting to feel the crunch too, combined with that fact that new taxes on large vehicles are going to ad something like 30% to the sticker cost there.

I think the reality is that Hummer, Saab and probably Saturn are all going to be shuttered.

 

[SGV]

Anyone have a link to or more pics of that Colorado? Cant figure out my fascination with standard cab trucks when xtra & crew cab models are more practical & useful... something about the look

I suffer from the same thing. I think it comes down to Dad saying "A real truck doesn't have that extended thing on it," or something similar. I just think they look more clean. The Colorado is a nice looking truck IMO.

I saw the H3T at a car show this weekend. It was alright. It was very big.

It would be nice if Hummer survived long enough to make the H4.

 

[Kurt]

I'm not so sure there is going to be a buyer for Hummer. China may have wanted it a while ago, but they are starting to feel the crunch too, combined with that fact that new taxes on large vehicles are going to ad something like 30% to the sticker cost there.

I think the reality is that Hummer, Saab and probably Saturn are all going to be shuttered.

Hummer doesn't impact GM that much by selling it, much of the production is outside of GM owned plants.

H1/H2 production is AM General, with the H3 being the only product made by GM.

Hummer is a niche product with a small market that can be run by a company without a large overhead.

There's a few interested buyers, which is the reason the deal isn't finalized yet.

AM General retained the Humvee(tm) trademark separate from GM, which is interesting as it leaves another avenue that AMG could potentially exploit down the road.

The flavor of the week rumor as far as american interests are concerned, is Navistar who is on again, off again about buying GM's medium truck lines [ie. Topkick] and some of the Pickup line along with, supposedly Hummer. That would be odd as Navistar and AM General are competitors when it comes to military vehicles [on the other hand Navistar fabricates the Optimizer blocks for the military HMMWV's].

One recent rumor is that AM General and Chengfeng are partnering up to "buy back" the brand.

Then we have India/Arab and Russian interests who are interested in picking up the brand.

GM annouced they're talking with parties and an annoucement will be made "soon" [I'm guessing sometime this quarter]