Hummer News

Some AM General workers who found themselves out of work earlier this year are back on the job this week. The HUMMER H2 plant employees wont find themselves back in their old jobs, but rather at AM General’s military HUMVEE plant. 80 employees lost their job in August, and thanks …

Team HUMMER had a lot riding on the 2008 Fabtech Desert Classic in Henderson, Nevada this weekend. The three Halls (Rod, Chad, and Josh Hall) that make up the Team HUMMER family were all poised to win the Best In the Desert points championships in their class, and with three …

Iraqis have learned quite a few English words, but the most common is HUMMER, and it’s used to describe just about any military vehicle with wheels. They may not know the name “HUMMER” describes the civilian model produced by General Motors and that ‘HUMVEE’ is actually a loose acronym for …

Team HUMMER is just days away from the last Best In the Desert series race, and is poised to sweep the stock class season championships. Coming into this weekend’s Henderson FabTech Desert Classic, Team HUMMER leads in season points in each of their respective classes. Leading the stock mini class …

‘Vegas to Reno’ is known as the longest off-road race in the United States, and this year Team HUMMER swept the production classes. It was also a record setting year for team member Emily Miller, who entered the history books as the first woman ever to drive the entire race. …

To say that the last few months have been a trying time for the automotive industry would be an extreme understatement. Many dealers, including one of the nation’s largest HUMMER dealerships, have been closing up shop due to tough market conditions and bankruptcy. Only three months ago the HUMMER community …

The Baja 1000 is one of the longest and toughest off-road races in the world, and was the SCORE season finale for Rod Hall and Team HUMMER racing. This past weekend, both Rod Hall and son Chad clinched points championship titles after strong finishes in this year’s Baja 1000. This …

Every year for the last 22 years, J.D. Power and Associates rank automotive brands by customer satisfaction. The evaluation is based on five factors: dealership facility; salesperson; paperwork/finance process; delivery process; and vehicle price. In 2008, HUMMER was ranked second overall, only behind Jaguar by a single point and beating …

One question that I get pretty often is, “Do HUMMER owners really ever take their new trucks off-road?” My answer is often a surprised sounding, “yes!” But maybe I shouldn’t be so surprised after being asked so many times. It’s obvious that many people still believe that most HUMMERs never …

Surely one of the most ubiquitous assumptions about the HUMMER brand is that they are largely inefficient vehicles. When compared to the new Chevy Volt that can run exclusively on electric, I would agree. But the difference is negligible when you compare the brand’s most popular model, the HUMMER H3, …

Australia’s largest strength competition recently took on HUMMER as a new and appropriate sponsor. Brisbane’s OZ Strongman challenges contestants to various feats of strength, including pushing an H3 up to 30 meters. “It makes perfect sense to combine the strengths of the HUMMER brand and the OZ Strongman Championship,” says …