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  Hummer Blog
The Hummer H2 SUV is the kind of vehicle that demands attention.
Hummer H3 dominates Baja 1000 Motoring, South Africa - 1 hour ago Two H3 Hummers were the first stock class vehicles to finish the 2007 Baja 1000 desert race, run over 2074km from Ensenada in Baja California to Cabo San...
Hummer H3 Alpha And H3 First Stock Class Vehicles To Finish Baja PaddockTalk - 1 hour ago The 2007 Baja 1000 was also the inaugural race for the #866 2008 H2 SUT in the full stock class.
www.hummer-autoblog.com   (435 words)

  
  ROCKCRAWLER.com - Hummer H3T Concept Revealed
No matter the size or configuration, a vehicle adorned with the HUMMER name must deliver the best-in-class capabilities that have made the brand the standard against which other off-road vehicles are measured.
HUMMER introduced the ruggedly refined H3T concept vehicle at the 2004 Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, providing a glimpse at a growing family of expressive, versatile vehicles.
There wouldn't be a HUMMER badge on the H3T if it didn't have the capability to dive into twisty terrain that would leave lesser 4x4s spinning their wheels.
www.rockcrawler.com /features/newsshorts/03december/hummer_h3t.asp   (1358 words)

  
 Hummer FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hummers are made by AM General Corp. in South Bend, Indiana, USA.
The Hummer's width gives it inherent stability and makes it possible to be high-clearance and have a relatively low center of gravity at the same time.
The fact that they're present on the civilian Hummers is evidence of its close relationship to the military Humvees.
www.humvee.net /misc/humfaq.html   (758 words)

  
 Posts from the Hummer Category at AutoblogGreen
Hummers can be converted to run on biodiesel or ethanol, and new sports cars can be built with high performance electric motors and batteries.
Hummer's possible tie-in with McDonalds on a green project seemed to impress the groovy blogger, and he was pleased that GM responded in good faith to his questions.
That was also the year the Hummer H2 was introduced, and the behemoth SUV quickly became the lightning rod for media attacks from environmentalists who saw them as gas hogs and consumer advocates who feared the vehicle's massive bulk would be a danger to smaller cars on the road.
www.autobloggreen.com /category/hummer   (3756 words)

  
 Hummer at Off-Road.com - Home Page
I just got back from Miller Motor sports Park in Salt Lake City where BF Goodrich launched their brand new Mud T/A with tire sizes ranging from 35 inches to 42 inches.
We install a set of Staun Internal Beadlocks to hold our Maxxis Creepy Crawlers on Project Polar Hummer H3's wheels.
The new CORSA Performance exhaust system, specifically engineered for the Hummer H2 and Hummer H2 SUT models, features a straight through, non-restrictive design coupled with the company's patented RSC technology.
hummer.off-road.com /hummer   (183 words)

  
 Hummer H1 Parts @ Car Parts Wholesale
Hummer H1 Hummer H1 proves to be the baddest yet toughest sports utility vehicle on the road but nestles to be one of the most personal favorites of many, even the Hollywood stars.
Hummer H1 also has been referred to as the AM General Hummer.
Hummer H1 was released in 1992 readily taking its toll in popularity rates.
www.carpartswholesale.com /cpw/hummer~h1~parts.html   (368 words)

  
 Hummer Heaven   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The civilian Hummer became available to the public in 1992, and it has seen some success, thanks to people who've found that there are some things a Jeep Wrangler just can't do.
The Hummer was created in 1983 when the U.S. Army set a challange to vehicle manufacturers to invent a High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, hence the acronymn HMMWV or Humvee as the hummer is called.
Humvee, hummer, hummer limo all have a automatic and manual air pump for there tires to adjust the hummer air pressure.
members.aol.com /blazerK513/hum.html   (730 words)

  
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The Hummer O2, as the green, carbon-eating machine is called, only exists in the minds of GM designers and in the two-dimensional renderings submitted to the judges of the LA Auto Show’s Design Challenge.
The Hummer O2 is competing alongside such concepts as a Mini with palm tree seeds implanted in its body, a Volkswagen made up of half-millimeter large nano-machines, and a biodiesel-electric Kia hybrid with a solar-powered cooler and detachable recycling bins.
The Hummer 02 design is powered by four fuel cells running hydraulic motors attached to each wheel and a “phototropic” body shell with algae and water to transform carbon dioxide to oxygen.
www.redherring.com /Article.aspx?a=19937&hed=A+Green+Hummer%3F§or=Industries&subsector=Energy   (819 words)

  
 Hummer and Prius war for America's auto soul. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine
Based on the Humvee military vehicle, the Hummer was first produced for consumer use in 1992, in part at the suggestion of action-hero Arnold Schwarzenegger.
When you compare the fortunes of the Hummer to those of its opposite—Toyota's hybrid Prius, which can get upwards of 50 miles per gallon—it looks like the market may be shifting.
The Hummer costs more than twice as much as the Prius—although the absurd, huge federal tax break available to purchasers of giant vehicles for business use reduces the price a lot.
www.slate.com /id/2096191/device/html40/workarea/3   (943 words)

  
 The Humboldt-Merger
The Humboldt-Merger (in short: HumMer) is a part of the Merging Autonomous Content project at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
HumMer is an integrated information system, reading relational, XML, and unstructured data and merging it into common, structured information.
HumMer proceeds in three steps: First, schema matching bridges schematic heterogeneity of the data sources by aligning corresponding attributes.
www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de /~naumann/hummer   (2928 words)

  
 Hummer huggers start new drive   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When Sonnie Martin recently broke down in Calgary in her Hummer H2, she said she was met with a string of horns, fingers, obscenities and rude comments.
Hummer’s smaller, more affordable buggy, while still outlandish in style, is far more user-friendly in nature than its siblings.
The 3,800-kilogram Hummer is an "icon," "it sticks out on the street," and "it's in your face," he says.
www.canada.com /nationalpost/news/story.html?id=a78c3db5-b5db-4d0c-8728-82e0a6cf92c5   (613 words)

  
 ROCKCRAWLER.com - Hummer H1 Driving Academy
The materials used on the hummer are best suited for flat paints and not the shiny metallics and polishes that the consumers want on their rides.
As we left the plant, we stopped and looked into a new 2004 Hummer and were very surprised by a new interior which consisted of new colors, new materials and as much more comfortable feel as well as an aesthetically-pleasing layout.
I was impressed not only with what the Hummer could do out of the box, but also with the patience and work ethic that the instructors showed with everyone.
www.rockcrawler.com /trailreports/hummer_h1_academy/h1day2.asp   (1166 words)

  
 Posts from the Hummer Category at Autoblog
The Hummer brand was taking a serious hits due to $3+ per gallon gasoline, but the H3 came out in the knick of time to bail out the General and its dealers.
HUMMER is getting in on the act, blending a little bit of advertising with a healthy dose of altruism through a program the truck-builder calls Courageous Kids.
The 2008 HUMMER H2 gets a spiffy new powertrain in the 6.2L V8 with a 6-speed automatic sourced from the Cadillac Escalade, but the real story is the gigunda SUV's 100% improved passenger cabin.
www.autoblog.com /category/hummer   (4175 words)

  
 Straightline
Predictably then, Hummer is resorting to the oldest trick in the car business to try to create some excitement around the H2: the Limited Edition model.
Hummer is also working on a new H3 variant with a pickup bed that will go on sale in 2008.
Hummers put out three times more carbon dioxide than a regular car, and since the state of California is suing Toyota, Nissan, Ford, Honda, Chrysler and General Motors over greenhouse gas emissions, Schwarzenegger felt it was time to put his money where his mouth is; so the Hummers are out.
blogs.edmunds.com /Straightline/category/cat.HUMMER   (1186 words)

  
 Hummer Parts - Hummer Accessories - Partstrain.com
The original Hummer was manufactured by AM General, the heavy industries division of the American Motors.
In 1999, the Hummer trademark was sold to General Motors and GM then started selling the Hummer vehicles.
The present Hummer vehicles sold by the GM Corporation is still manufactured by AM General, although marketing it have been delegated to GM.
www.partstrain.com /ShopByVehicle/HUMMER   (382 words)

  
 Hummer and Prius war for America's auto soul. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Between July 2002 and November 2002, monthly sales of the Hummer H1 and the Hummer H2 practically doubled, from 1,922 to 3,933, according to figures provided by Autodata.
When you compare the fortunes of the Hummer to those of its opposite—Toyota's hybrid Prius, which can get upwards of 50 miles per gallon—it looks like the market may be shifting.
The Hummer costs more than twice as much as the Prius—although the absurd, huge federal tax break available to purchasers of giant vehicles for business use reduces the price a lot.
slate.msn.com /id/2096191   (984 words)

  
 An Earth Day Call to Arnold Schwarzenegger: Go Hummer Free
Hummer owners (an elite class in itself as the H1 starts at $100,000, the H2 at $50,000) take unfair advantage of a tax benefit originally meant to help farmers purchase tractors.
At the LA auto show last month, protesters draped the Hummer in a banner that read “Real soldiers are dying in their Hummers so you can play soldier in yours.” Kelly Dougherty, recently returned from a year of fighting in Iraq, agrees.
The polluting, gas-guzzling, menacing Hummer is the quintessential symbol of human arrogance against mother nature.
www.commondreams.org /views04/0422-02.htm   (963 words)

  
 Hummer Cars | All pricing information available at CarsDirect.com
Hummer is the badge name for the AM General and General Motors Corporation joint effort SUV line.
The Hummer marque has found great success with the public, hailed as the ultimate off road vehicle since 1999.
Due to the limited amount of sales of this first civilian model of the Humvee and the high production costs, the company with GM decided that it was time to retire the model.
www.carsdirect.com /hummer   (253 words)

  
 Delta Tech - Products   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The most advanced form of automotive auxiliary lighting available for your Hummer is provided by these DELTA H.I.D. (High Intensity Discharge) systems which produce a 7,000 Kelvin light beam.
Delta 10X Light Bar for H2 A direct replacement for the existing cross bar on the Hummer H2 and new H2 SUT, the DELTA 10X Light Bar features adequate clearance for most garages and (8) H3 XENON powered waterproof lights for an unprecedented 440 watts of lighting power.
A direct replacement for the existing cross bar on the Hummer H3 the DELTA 6X Light Bar features adequate clearance for most garages and (6) H3 XENON powered waterproof lights for an unprecedented 330 watts of lighting power.
www.deltalights.com /products.asp?ptid=268&p=hummer   (667 words)

  
 2006 Hummer H3 - Previews - Car and Driver November 2004
The challenge for GM is for Hummer to earn some street cred for genuine ability before launching the next, smaller SUV—and it's expected to be the line's bestseller—so it can confront Jeep head on.
So they brought five prototypes of the 2006 Hummer H3 to northeast California's spectacularly beautiful Rubicon Trail—Jeep's semiofficial proving ground, namesake of the Wrangler Rubicon—and invited four automotive writers along on a two-day development trek up the legendary granite-and-dust nonroad.
They're dang close to the production H3s that will be in Hummer dealers' Quonset huts next summer wearing a base price of about $30,000, even though the interiors lacked some trim and graining on the plastic and the exteriors wore dorky camouflage.
www.caranddriver.com /article.asp?section_id=19&article_id=8692&page_number=1   (682 words)

  
 The Hummer army   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Hummer, which comes in the huge H1 model or the smaller, trendier H2 developed a cult following when Schwarzenegger convinced then-manufacturer AM General to sell a consumer model back in 1992.
In December 1999, AM General sold the rights to the Hummer brand to GM, which markets the H1 and the smaller H2, which is built off the bones of a Chevy Tahoe.
Rap star Coolio also dumped his Hummer, saying he was fed up with the cost of running it.
www.bankrate.com /brm/news/auto/car-guide-2004/hummer.asp   (402 words)

  
 HUMMER Club Volunteers To Assist American Red Cross   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mike Morris, a director of The HUMMER Club and national coordinator of the HOPE program, said that the program grew out of members’ desires to get more involved with their communities by taking advantage of the remarkable all-terrain capabilities of HUMMER vehicles.
HUMMER is a division of General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM), the world’s largest vehicle manufacturer, which employs about 325,000 people globally.
The HUMMER H1 and H2 are built by AM General in Mishawaka, Indiana by United Auto Workers Local 5, the oldest UAW local union in the country.
www.redcross.org /pressrelease/0,1077,0_116_3650,00.html   (870 words)

  
 Humer H3 - 2006, 2007 Hummer H3 Road Test Review by autoMedia.com
Its enormous cost and excessive mass made it more caricature than car; a superhero SUV, remote from all but the few who don't have to worry about driving between the lines or spending within their means.
With the footprint of a midsize car, here finally is a Hummer that can be discussed in polite company, yet still gets the 10w-40 pumping in your bloodstream.
Hummer starts with an H3 model with the luxury package and adds some bling-basics: chrome tube steps, fuel door and the chrome appearance package.
www.automedia.com /2006/2007/Hummer/H3/rts20060601h3/1   (959 words)

  
 Hummer O2 concept brings shame to the nature-terrorizing brand - Engadget
In a humiliating blow to the once proud, gas-guzzling Hummer SUV, engineers at GM have re-imagined the poster child for environmental apathy as a completely green vehicle that not only leaves a small "footprint" in its wake, but actually promises to give something back to nature as well.
But Arnold's Hummer is hydrogen-powered, and he is an environmental-warrior (or at least is publicly), so I don't think that's fair to say.
And fewer Hummer "H1"s are sold per year than Ferrari's are sold per year (roughly 13,000 H1s total in existence - including at least one that I saw in Bristol, England).
www.engadget.com /2006/12/04/hummer-o2-concept-brings-shame-to-the-nature-terrorizing-brand   (2473 words)

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