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<description><![CDATA[Car Enthusiast - Hummer has come up with the ultimate radio-controlled toy car with remotely operated H3.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hummer to the rescue]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Car Enthusiast - Hummer has given a specially modified H3 to the Mountain Rescue.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[More T, Hummer?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Car Enthusiast - Forget polite society, the Hummer H3T is for your inner redneck as it adds a pick-up truck model to the H3 range.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:44:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hummer HX cleans up its act]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Car Enthusiast - Hummer's HX concept at the Detroit show is a fun car with the serious message that the American SUV maker is cleaning up its act.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:17:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hummer HX]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Five of the Best - Like Land Rover, Hummer is keen to reduce its average fuel consumption and emissions across its range.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:10:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hummer-dinger]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Car Enthusiast - Hummer goes over to the dark side for its limited run H3 Black Edition that comes with every imaginable extra fitted.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:40:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hummer H3 : DUMB and HUMMER?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Car And Driving - Many reckon theres no room on our roads for vehicles like the Hummer H3 but freedom of choice seems as noble a cause as any to Andy Enright.Crikey. I havent received this many dirty looks since I arrived at my mother-in-laws annual garden party with her dog crushed into the front wheel arch of my car. While the Hammie Incident has now been largely forgotten, every day behind the wheel of the Hummer H3 brings with it another slew of people who hate you on sight. Its one of those cars. According to my non scientific research, for every admiring glance the H3 receives, youll get two or three glares of barely disguised loathing.How we got to the Hummer H3 is interesting. Drawing its influence from the original Humvee military vehicle (HMMWV - a military term for High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle for the curious), the idea for a roadgoing Hummer was hatched when General Motors bought the AM General Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. This company manufactured Humvee vehicles for the US military and had started selling Hummer versions with slightly more creature comforts to civilians such as Arnold Schwarzenegger. The growth of the high end Sports Utility Vehicle market in the US and the brand equity of the Hummer name made the company an attractive target and in 2002 GM unveiled the Hummer H2. A loophole on 6000lb+ commercial vehicles saw many business buyers able to tax deduct $38,000 of the cars $50,000 list price and helped sales skyrocket. Based on tried and tested GM mechanicals, the H2 used a front suspension system similar to a GM Silverado truck while the rear end was similar to a GM half-tonne truck. It drove like a commercial vehicle too and although a few were imported to the UK, it was too big for inner city streets. The H3 packs the Hummer look and feel into a more manageable size and is now offered in right-hand drive form for the very first time priced at £26,495. More manageable size should be put into perspective. This vehicle is still 1989mm wide, so piloting it around inner city streets is real heart in mouth stuff. As a guide, a Dodge Viper is 1,910mm wide. To really get a handle on the width of the H3, its girth is to a Range Rover what a Range Rover is to a Peugeot 207. The bluff sides of the H3 fall away leaving it to your imagination what lies beneath. The big mirrors are great or would be if I hadnt clouted the door mirror irreparably on a makeshift sign advertising herbal remedies."My wife refused to ride in it, abandoning me for a bus.."Powered by a General Motors Vortec 3.7-litre five-cylinder petrol engine with twin overhead cams and variable valve timing, you get 244bhp at 5,600rpm and 328Nm of torque at a relatively heady 4,600rpm. Rather surprisingly, this is no lazy lugger. To make decent progress, you need to rev it hard. Give it everything and itll haul to 60mph in 11 seconds. Theres the choice of a five-speed manual gearbox or the preferable four-speed GM Hydra-Matic auto. Biofuel and Diesel H3s will follow. Traction control and StabililTrack stability control aim to keep the H3 dirty side down and its manufacturer claims it will ford water 407mm deep and features a front approach angle of 37. 5 degrees. For the off roaders amongst you, the departure angle is 35.5 degrees and the breakover angle is 23.5 degrees. I suspect most buyers will be more concerned about whether 24-inch chrome spinner rims fit. Anybody who ever drove one of the original Hummers would have been amazed at its reverse-TARDIS ability. Huge on the outside, there was probably less useable room inside than youd get in a Ford Focus. It was genuinely a triumph of lousy packaging. The H3 is several steps removed from the original and things are a good deal more conventional inside, without a transmission tunnel so wide you need to semaphore your passenger. Its still rather American insofar as the plastics quality isnt great, but the centre stack at least looks stylish with its brushed metal finish. It does have a style of its own and its not altogether unappealing. On a short off-road route, I managed to almost knock myself unconscious on the grab handle, thought better of it and got back on the blacktop. Other ergonomic glitches include awful rear visibility thanks to the tailgate-mounted spare wheel and a reduction in the Hummers total load lugging ability thanks to rear seats that dont fold flat. The exterior styling is bluff and uncompromising with a front end that encourages traffic out of its path. The H3 is based on a Chevy Colorado pick up truck, so the underpinnings arent exactly cutting edge. Whats quite fascinating about the Hummer is that while to many it represents the unacceptable face of American bling, its in fact built at the Struandale Assembly Facility in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. General Motors has pumped over $100 million into the construction of this plant and the H3 is expected to pay its way. Early signs have been promising for the Hummer brand with around 2,000 vehicles being sold across Europe annually. With carbon-dioxide based taxation becoming increasingly stringent, the UK may not be one of the bigger markets for the H3 but it will still sell in reasonable numbers, especially to moneyed urban youth who see existing SUVs as being a little old hat. This generation wont mind that the Hummer isnt packed to the gills with luxury equipment. Its got the basics and anything additional, such as flat screen LCDs running off a Sony PS3 or a stereo capable of tripping seismographs in the Marshall Islands, represents scope for personalisation. In the period that I drove the car, I was somewhat amazed to have averaged 15.6 miles per gallon. If asked beforehand what my mixed city and country driving would net, Id have hazarded a guess at 10-11mpg. The official figure is just over 20mpg although you would need to be saintly to get anywhere near that. Insurance and emissions taxation are both correspondingly expensive and depreciation figures really depend on the whims of fashion. As it stands, the Hummer H3 looks like commanding quite a healthy resale value, although the Chancellor of the Exchequer will doubtless be doing everything in his aegis to affect this. As offensive as it is to some and as irrelevant as it is to virtually all, the Hummer H3 still emerges as strangely appealing. Perhaps its entirely because society is increasingly conditioning us to spurn these things that the contrarian in me can see its qualities. Its enormous fun to rumble up alongside prigs in Priuses and start revving the 3.7-litre engine just to see them start working themselves up into a rage of self righteousness. I know thats childish in the extreme but its good sport. My wife refused to ride in it, abandoning me for a bus. My friends think I look like a crack dealer while driving it and my neighbours jaw dropped in sheer horror when it fronted up outside his house. The Hummer H3 isnt going to win many popularity contests but if you want a vehicle thats surprisingly capable off road and which thumbs its nose at convention, theres not a lot to touch it.FACTS AT A GLANCE CAR: Hummer H3 PRICE: £26,495 on the road INSURANCE GROUP: 17 [est] CO2 EMISSIONS: 327-346g/km PERFORMANCE: 0-60mph 11s FUEL CONSUMPTION: (combined) 20.4mpg STANDARD SAFETY FEATURES: four wheel ABS, traction control, stability control, twin front airbags WILL IT FIT IN YOUR GARAGE?: Length/width/heightmm 4782/1989/1912mm]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hummer H3]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Five of the Best - Admittedly, the final choice in our quintet of cars in which to pick up your hot date is a bit of a wild card.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:57:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hummer H2 : THINK BIG]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Car And Driving - The Hummer H2 May Not Have Been Designed With Britains Roads In Mind But If You Want To Create An Impact, Theres Little To Touch It. Andy Enright ReportsThe responses from passers by Range from slack-jawed stupefaction through rabid enthusiasm to sheer disgust. Whatever your take on the leviathan Hummer H2, youll certainly find it impossible to ignore. Its sheer bulk, vertiginous frontage and quasi-military mien not to mention this examples retina searing yellow paintwork combine to acquaint pedestrians with pavement furniture like few other vehicles.Drawing its influence from the original Humvee military vehicle (HMMWV - a military term for High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle for the curious), the idea for the Hummer H2 was hatched when General Motors bought the AM General Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. This company manufactured Humvee vehicles for the US military and had started selling Hummer versions with slightly more creature comforts to civilians such as Arnold Schwarzenegger. The growth of the high end Sports Utility Vehicle market in the US and the brand equity of the Hummer name made the company an attractive target and in 2002 GM unveiled the Hummer H2. A loophole on 6000lb+ commercial vehicles saw many business buyers able to tax deduct $38,000 of the cars $50,000 list price and helped sales skyrocket. Based on tried and tested GM mechanicals, the H2 uses a front suspension system similar to a GM Silverado truck while the rear end is similar to a GM half-tonne truck. Weighing in at 2,845kg (a Bentley ContinentalT weighs a full 300kg less) and powered by a 316bhp 6.0-litre V8, the Hummer H2 takes quite a bit of stopping when it starts moving. It also takes quite a bit of fuel to get it moving, the H2 often dipping into single figure miles per gallon around town. Its Tonka toy looks are unashamedly macho, Hummer backing up the appeal with some gung-ho advertising rhetoric. "In a world where SUVs have begun to look like their owners, complete with love handles and mushy seats, the H2 proves theres still one out there that can drop and give you 20". Despite the glitzy marketing that made the H2 this years must have vehicle in the US, the car had to live up to the Hummer brand name. Fortunately it does."The H2 proves theres still one out there that can drop and give you 20"Capable of negotiating a 16-inch vertical wall, fording 20 inches of water, ascending a 60% incline and traversing a 40% side slope, the H2 can walk the walk too. Despite its unnerving girth, the H2 borders on unstoppable when taken offroad. The short front and rear overhangs make ascending and descending steep hills and deep gullies childs play. With nearly ten inches of ground clearance to call upon and almost unbelievable levels of wheel articulation, the H2 will rarely have to resort to its protective underbody skid plates. The relatively narrow windows make visibility an issue when really pushing the limits but on these occasions you should have a spotter outside helping you through. The four-speed automatic transmission splits power 40/60 to the front and rear wheels under normal driving conditions. Switching to 4 Hi Locked splits the front/rear bias 50.50 while another button on the dash then separates right and left sides into a 50/50 split. If this set up cant drag you out of the stickiest of situations, 4 Lo Locked alters the settings of the electronic throttle to assist low-speed crawling. A dual-level traction control system allows the H2 to continue even if only one wheel can get a purchase. All this will be academic to many H2 buyers. Most UK prospective customers will be looking for something a little more exotic than a BMW X5 or a Range Rover and assuming they are unintimidated by the cars six foot nine width (excluding mirrors), huge thirst and limited availability, they may well like what they see. The interior has been styled in a very modern, industrial way, certainly a long way removed from the charmless military functionality of the original Hummer. Eight-way power adjustable seats, a Bose stereo system, dual-zone climate control and optional leather trim afford a touch of luxury but like its big brother, the Hummer H2 doesnt offer MPV levels of passenger accommodation. The three-passenger rear bench seat is fine for two average adults, but the contoured shape of the centre seat makes three abreast seating a little uncomfortable. A full sized spare wheel occupies a big proportion of the rear cargo area, leaving only enough room for a single seat in the third row. For such an expensive vehicle, some of the materials used are a little disappointing. Thin grey plastic abounds and the console-mounted shift lever may look like it was milled from a billet of solid aluminium but give it a quick wobble and youll realise its also made of plastic. Piloting the Hummer H2 through city centre streets is a disconcerting process. You begin to map the city out in terms of width restrictions, multi-storey car parks that prove off limits and so on. Low-slung sports cars disappear alongside, with only the huge mirrors preventing a Lotus Elise-shaped test to the H2s clambering ability. Out on the open road the H2 is more amenable, the brakes inspiring confidence and the ride proving not overly wallowy. Due in no small part to the 35-inch all-terrain tyres, the featherlight steering lacks a bit of road feel. Still, we dont criticise a Lamborghini for its pitiful wading ability, do we? Therein lies the problem. The Hummer H2 is a white-knuckle handful in the city much as a Lamborghini will be a fish out of water on a cross-country course, but nobody in their right mind would take the supercar boulder hopping. Here in the UK, the H2 will sadly be used as an urban weapon of mass distraction rather than the monster all-terrain vehicle it genuinely is. There are legions of Sierra Club-style Hummer haters out there but were not amongst them. If you do feel tempted to indulge, just do it for the right reasons. Youll thank us afterwards.Facts At A Glance CAR: Hummer H2 PRICE: varies According to importer INSURANCE GROUP: 20 CO2 EMISSIONS: tba PERFORMANCE: Max Speed 110mph / 0-60mph 10.7s FUEL CONSUMPTION: (extra urban) 17mpg STANDARD SAFETY FEATURES: Twin airbags WILL IT FIT IN YOUR GARAGE? Length/Width/Height 189.8"/81.2"/82"]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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