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The 2008 Hummer HX concept was supposed to be General Motors‘ answer to the Jeep Wrangler. To put it mildly, that failed to materialize. General Motors killed Hummer as part of its bankruptcy-induced limb severing in 2009, before the HX could be brought to fruition as the H4, as had been rumored.

For those of you who wish the HX had indeed surfaced, we have some excellent news: My Electric Vehicle, or MEV, has appropriated the HX concept, added an electric drivetrain and created the MEV Hummer HX. The MEV HX is a fully electric golf cart resort vehicle, licensed by GM and sporting Hummer wheels and skid plates.

We’re still trying to figure out if the MEV Hummer HX has any practical purpose, which could take some time. While we’re doing that, feel free to hop the jump to see a video of the $16,000 electric Hummer knockoff in action.

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The 2008 Hummer HX concept was supposed to be General Motors‘ answer to the Jeep Wrangler. To put it mildly, that failed to materialize. General Motors killed Hummer as part of its bankruptcy-induced limb severing in 2009, before the HX could be brought to fruition as the H4, as had been rumored.

For those of you who wish the HX had indeed surfaced, we have some excellent news: My Electric Vehicle, or MEV, has appropriated the HX concept, added an electric drivetrain and created the MEV Hummer HX. The MEV HX is a fully electric golf cart resort vehicle, licensed by GM and sporting Hummer wheels and skid plates.

We’re still trying to figure out if the MEV Hummer HX has any practical purpose, which could take some time. While we’re doing that, feel free to hop the jump to see a video of the $16,000 electric Hummer knockoff in action.

Continue reading MEV rocks up with electric mini Hummer HX

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Filed under: Recalls, Safety, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GM, GMC, Hummer, Saturn

Heated windshield washer system: Good. Heated windshield washer system that gets so hot it could potentially cause a fire: Recall. General Motors has announced that it is recalling some 1.5 million vehicles built between 2006 and 2009 for just such a problem. A similar measure was taken in 2008, but apparently the fix performed for that recall hasn’t eradicated the issue entirely.

The models affected consist of the Buick Enclave and Lucerne; Cadillac CTS, DTS, Escalade, Escalade ESV and Escalade EXT; Chevrolet Avalanche, Silverado 3500, Suburban, Tahoe and Traverse; GMC Acadia, Sierra, Yukon, Yukon XL, Hummer H2 and Saturn Outlook. In lieu of a fix, it seems that The General is offering to pay owners $100 to remove the heated washer fluid system in its entirety.

[Source: The Detroit News]

GM recalls 1.5 million vehicles over heated windshield washer system originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: SUV, Truck, Government/Legal, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Plants/Manufacturing, Hummer, Earnings/Financials, Event Alert, Off-Road

Not so fast, Captain Planet. Hummer may be on its last leg at the moment, but fans of the brand aren’t going to let their favorite earth-roaming SUVs go down without a fight. Capital & Labor International Coalition, a newly-minted organization, thinks it has all the answers to the brand’s woes, and has scheduled a summit to help save Hummer here in the states on April 11.

This assemblage could be more than just a few fans with posters. CLIC has invited everyone from shareholders to Hummer’s CEO and United Auto Workers leaders. Thane Ritchie, chairman of the organization, said CLIC has taken a good hard look at the General Motors/Hummer issue and there may be another option out there other than just turning off the lights for good.

Members of the group have even invited Senator Rolland Burris (D-Illinois) to help out as well. Burris will be acting as a liaison between the coalition and the federal government, especially when it comes to getting any aid for the brand. In the meantime, the Save Hummer in America rally will be held next week in Chicago. Hey, it worked for Saab, right?

[Source: Automobile]

Report: Chicago-area ‘Save Hummer’ rally planned for April 11 originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Hummer, Off-Road

Team Miller Fisher has crossed the finish line of the Rallye A?cha des Gazelles – in a Hummer H3 driven off a Parisian dealer’s lot – and battled from 51st to 12th out of 98 teams after a mistake on the first leg. The Rallye A?cha, a six-stage trek through the desert, allows no use of GPS, no pace notes, no cell phones, and no binoculars. Pilots and co-pilots find their way between checkpoints with maps, compasses and pencils, and whoever completes the journey in the shortest distance, wins.

The race was made even harder this year by using not the 1:100,000-scale maps of years past, but scraps of paper with increasingly less route information as the race went on. Olympic skier and co-pilot Wendy Fisher wrote to say, “This continues to be the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. An unbelievably tough event. Days were SO long, almost impossible to get all of the checkpoints.”

Emily Miller noted, “We are happy with where we finished but we really would have love to end up in the top 10 and we lost that on our first day with navigation errors. The H3 did GREAT! Everybody loved the truck, it was the best stock truck we could have asked for and are grateful to HUMMER France for giving us the opportunity to drive it.” To Team Miller Fisher and all of the winners and competitors in the three classes we say: Way. To. Go.

[Source: Hummer]
Photos courtesy of Dan Campell-Lloyd

Team Miller Fisher finishes the 20th Anniversary Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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