That’s rough, and all the way to South Africa at that.
I had an H2 for a while. Great truck, and I miss it, even though I learned a lot about what parts of it were great and what weren’t so great. I’d love to get another.
This guy got the H2 back when GW Bush gave a tax incentive to buy new commercial trucks over 6000#s.
You could depreciate any vehicle 6000 lbs or more in the first year. It was designed to get businesses to buy new trucks.
However, H2 Hummers, Suburbans, Lincoln Navigators, etc all fell into that weight class too. So a lot of dentists and other small business owners bought them. My friend and his wife owned a hair salon. The H2 was their company car.
The other part of the story was that the Montreal Marriott had a lot attendant until 10pm. It was such a cool vehicle they parked it right up front. There was a tricked out Mercedes parked right next to it. A Porsche next to that.
The H2 also had OnStar. He contacted them immediately. They would not activate the tracking until they had a police report of it being stolen. The local cops said the attendant probably got paid to tip off the thieves. That the Hummer was probably in a container in the port of Montreal within 10 minutes of it being stolen from the hotel lot.