Last March we covered Emily Miller, professional off-road racer for Rod Hall Racing and Team HUMMER, while competing in the Moroccan desert in a HUMMER H3 for the Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles. A quick refresher on the event – women only, no GPS, no support crews, and 50+ checkpoints. Only …
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American Team Narrowly Misses Top 10 Finish in African Offroad Race
No GPS, no cell phones, and no binoculars – just an old set of maps, some compasses, and a stock H3 off the lot. That’s what Team Miller Fisher had to work with as the only U.S. competitors in the all women Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles held in Morocco, and …
Read More »HUMMER: It’s Not Over Yet
GM announced Wednesday their plans to wind down the HUMMER brand after a failed attempt to unload the brand to a Chinese company – but for those quick to jump on the “R.I.P HUMMER” band wagon, here are a couple things to consider. First, HUMMER’s wind-down process is going to …
Read More »Financing, Regulatory Obstacles Surface in HUMMER Deal
(Updated 12:02 ET — Bloomberg is now reporting that GM has “failed to win approval from Chinese regulators to sell its Hummer brand to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co.” At this point as the news is breaking, we think its important to note that we’ve heard no official word …
Read More »U.S. Team Entering HUMMER H3 in Moroccan Offroad Race
No Cell Phones. No GPS. No trail support crew. Many offroad racers would say, “no thanks,” to such a race, but two American women are up to the challenge and traveling to Morocco in a few weeks to take on the Rally of the Gazelles – the only all-women offroad …
Read More »Ask Jim Part 1: 2010 Production and Diesel HUMMER Models
We’ve received the responses from the latest round of questions sent from HUMMERGuy.net readers to HUMMER’s CEO Jim Taylor, and the responses were so numerous it became necessary to split them up. We’ll start with the questions regarding 2010 HUMMER production and the possibility of diesel HUMMERs in the United …
Read More »New HUMMER Racing Video from the 2009 Baja 1000
Racing by insane pedestrians, passing slow-moving FJ Cruisers, avoiding giant boulders in the road, nudging slow-moving opponents with the front push bar, navigating through narrow trails next to dangerous cliffs – it was all part of HUMMER’s latest winning Baja 1000 run, and all in the latest video from Rod …
Read More »Team HUMMER’s Baja 1000 Wins Made Official
You know it’s a pretty grueling race when out of a total field of 328 vehicles, only 185 even cross the finish line. Team HUMMER and Rod Hall Racing’s two H3s were not only in the group that made it through all 672 miles of the Baja 1000, their first …
Read More »HUMMER Race Trucks at 2009 SEMA Show
The SEMA show was the first time we got to see Robby Gordon’s Dakar HUMMER H3 in person (and Robby, for that matter). While it more closely resembles an unlimited class race buggy, it still uses several H3 design cues. More closely representative of a stock HUMMER H3 is Rod …
Read More »HUMMER H3T Sportsman Edition from SEMA 2009 Photo Gallery
The H3T Sportsman was the other concept truck HUMMER had on display at the 2009 SEMA show, and we’ve added a gallery to our coverage. One accessory that wasn’t specifically listed but appeared on the truck was a rear utility-light that attached to bedrails of the truck – something we …
Read More »Robby Gordon and Team HUMMER Visit 2009 SEMA Show
As General Motors began its restructuring process, motor sports saw some of the biggest cuts. Throw in a questionable future for HUMMER, and teams sponsored by the off-road brand were left in doubt for most of 2009. On Monday, HUMMER committed to resume their sponsorship of both Robby Gordon’s Dakar …
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