Posted on 01/10/2020 1:17:46 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
General Motors Co will revive the Hummer name to sell a new family of electric pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles and will tout the return with a Super Bowl ad featuring NBA star Lebron James, two people briefed on the matter said on Friday.
The vehicles will be sold under the GMC nameplate. Reuters reported in October that GM planned to build a new family of premium electric pickup trucks at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant beginning in late 2021 and was considering reviving the Hummer name, citing several people familiar with the plans.
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Two reasons to stay from this brand:
1. Lebron James as your spokesperson.
2. Hummers sissified by being only electric.
The original Hummer had lousy MPG. The reincarnation doesn’t have that problem.
3. GMC
Why? Hummers were unreliable money pits.
I wouldn’t buy a new GM anything.
TORQUE IS NOT FOR SISSIES
I stand by my prediction that electric vehicles will never be more than a market niche. Unless there is some profound battery breakthrough, electric vehicles will prove to be the CFL light bulb to the LED. Hydrogen cars or something else, li-on battery cars? Never.
Just like LeBoring James.
And the military version cost as much as five military Jeeps. While still not being armoured.
The one plus it had over the jeep was not rolling easily when cornering at high speed...which isn’t something that comes up enough to be worth the difference in cost, IMHO.
A bunch of men could (in an emergency) physically lift a Jeep up over a stone wall. Wasn’t happening with the HMMWV.
I guess we’ll be bailing them out again sooner than later.
Hummer? More fitting would be Buzzer.
I was thisclose but you beat me.
:D
I was thinking “Bummer”.
I pledged myself never to buy Government(bailed out)Motors, and I don’t plan on changing ever.
What’s wrong with having LeBron James as your spokesman? Is he some kind of flaming lib or something? Sorry I don’t follow sports so pardon my ignorance.
GM looking for atonement from the woke crowd by admitting the original Hummer was a gas-guzzling climate sin mobile.
The only hummer I want is...... um, never mind.
It kinda makes sense, if the electric vehicles “hum” when driving. Some might use a different word, but it seems at least somewhat apropos.
The Aztec lends itself better...
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