Hummer H1 back from the dead
IF YOU’VE been ruing the day the legendary Hummer H1 went out of production back in 2006 and you wish you could still buy one new, your wish appears to be coming true.
The Hummer H1 is back, it’s brand new, and it’s coming straight out of Detroit too. There are just two problems though; it’s not able to be called the Hummer H1 and it’s not going to be sold in America where it’s built.
Although Hummer as a retail brand was killed off by GM in 2010, its contract manufacturer for the vehicle, AM General, has continued to build military versions now referred to as the HMMWV ( High Mobility MultiPurpose Wheeled Vehicle) for US and foreign armed forces. Hummer is still a GM trademark, so when AM General started offering the vehicle for sale to individuals in kit form in 2013, it started being known as the CSeries.
Now the kits are being pre-built in America by a company called VLF Automotive, which Bob Lutz, the 85-year- old industry wizard responsible for the Volt and Viper, is involved with. The finished vehicles are then being exported by a company made up of Humvee enthusiasts and entrepreneurs based out of Saint Clair, Michigan, called Humvee Export. The finished trucks are now being sold to importers overseas who are distributing them in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and now China.
The company expects to sell something like 100 C- Series units into China by the end of this year, with prices expected to be somewhere above US$ 150,000 ( RM675,000). — Relaxnews