Hummer News

This past weekend, Team HUMMER was determined to keep their class leads in ‘Best in the Desert’ points race. Chad Hall took second place in the #4111 HUMMER H3 Alpha while brother Josh and father Rod took first in the #8111 HUMMER H2 SUT and #3111 H3 respectively. The battle …

We’ve gotten our hands on the very first HUMMER H3T commercial called “The Open” set to hit regular air next week. The spot shows different HUMMER enthusiast readying for various outdoor battles. Enjoy the clip – you’ll see it here first!

General Motors announced today that the company is putting the HUMMER brand up for sale along with a manufacturing plant in France. According to GM’s treasurer Walter Borst, the company hopes to distribute sales material on the two assets in October. The two assets combined are said to be worth …

The Dallas area HUMMER Vandal that was caught red handed last week has admitted to vandalizing four other HUMMER H2s over the last three months. 72 year old James Andrew Jeppe also admitted to being a member of the Sierra Club and Green Peace. The police report released today gave …

After a few days of media coverage, the DFW HUMMER vandal that was caught red handed on surveillance cameras is out on $1000 bail after turning himself in to local authorities. 72 year old James Andrew Jeppe was identified by several tipsters on Thursday before surrendering Friday. The Fort Worth …

We’ve found a little clip to set your weekend off on a good note. Last night, GM VP of design Bob Lutz (the same VP that said global warning was a crock!) was on the Colbert Report. Lutz was brought on the program to talk about GM’s new electric vehicle, …

The Ocala National Forrest in Florida is the latest recreation area to benefit from HUMMER’s Recreation Rescue program, which helps maintain off-road trails around the country. High temperatures, thunderstorms, and ‘hoards of bugs’ weren’t enough to keep the nearly 70 volunteers from performing basic trail maintenance and installing signage throughout …

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard of a HUMMER vandal, and it won’t be the last, but this is the first time that we’ve seen crystal clear video evidence of the dirty deed (video below). We first would have expected to find some punk kid or a 20-something holier-than-thou …

General Motors, HUMMER’s parent company (at least for now), is turning 100 tomorrow. To celebrate, several online events will be held on Tuesday including an online chat with some of GM’s top brass. I’m guessing that any questions about HUMMER will be filtered through the moderators, but you never know. …

Speaking in Detroit today, General Motor’s president and COO Fritz Henderson said that GM expects to give financial information to prospective buyers in the next few weeks. Henderson maintained that he would like to wrap up a sale by the end of 2008, but expects the process will most likely …

Frank Hublou and John Schottenheimer were landing their seaplane on Lake Tahoe last Thursday when the 1946 Seabee flipped and began taking on water. The two were able to avoid tragedy, and called resident Carl Cooper a ‘saint’ after speeding out to the wreck in his boat, and later assisting …