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Conquer the off-road ability with Hummer H3
Conquer the off-road ability with Hummer H3
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Hummer is a brand of sport utility vehicles (SUVs) sold by General Motors, also known as GM. They are based on the military High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, or Humvee. The Hummer is one of the larger SUV types, with commensurate high fuel consumption.
Hummers were originally built by AM General Corporation, formerly the military and government vehicle division of American Motors, in its South Bend, Indiana assembly plant. AM General had planned to sell a civilian version of the Hummer as far back as the late 1980s. In 1990, two matching white Hummers were driven from London to Beijing over the rough roads of central Soviet Union. The Hummers made the trip with ease, for they were built to drive on off-road terrain. The highlights of this journey were broadcast in the United States on ESPN. This publicity would pale in comparison to the attention that the HMMWV received for its service in Operation: Desert Storm the following year.
In 1995, AM General began selling a civilian version of the M998 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV or Hum-Vee) vehicle to the public under the brand name "Hummer". According to legend, they began doing so after Arnold Schwarzenegger asked them to; apparently, he was impressed by a convoy of HMMWV's that drove by during his filming Kindergarten Cop in 1992. In 1998, AM General sold the brand name to General Motors but continued to manufacture the vehicles. GM is responsible for the marketing and distribution of all Hummers produced by AM General. In the next few years, GM introduced two new homegrown models, the H2 and H3, and renamed the original vehicle H1. AM General continues to build the H1 and is contracted by GM to produce the H2. The H3 is built in Shreveport, LA alongside the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon pickups.
As of 2006, Hummer has gone international with selected importers and distributors in Europe and other markets.
Since October 10, 2005, GM has been producing the Hummer H3 at its Port Elizabeth plant in South Africa for international markets.[2] Hummers at the Port Elizabeth plant will be built both for local South African consumption and for export to Australia (for the 2008 model year), Europe, the Middle East, and Japan. As of October 2006, Hummer vehicles are marketed by about 300 dealers in 34 countries. 173 of those are in the U.S.
The H2 is also assembled in Kaliningrad, Russia, by Avtotor, starting in June 2004. The plant produces a few hundred vehicles annually, and its output is limited to local consumption (five dealers in Russia initially).
On May 12, 2006, GM announced it would cease production of the original H1 Hummer.[3]
GM CEO Rick Wagoner has said the Hummer brand of trucks will run on Biofuels
* The videogames Grand Theft Auto 3 and GTA: Vice City both feature obvious clones of the H1, called Patriots.
* California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was the first private citizen to own a Hummer and continues to own several.[citation needed] During his 2003 bid for Governor, he responded to environmental critics that not only was he the first civilian to own a Hummer, but he had at his own expense successfully converted at least one of his Hummers into a Hydrogen vehicle.
* Throughout 1999-2000, World Championship Wrestling storylines revolved around the "Mysterious Hummer Driver" who wreaked havoc through the main event scene. It involved popular wrestlers such as Sting (wrestler), Rick Steiner, Macho Man Randy Savage, Ric Flair, Kevin Nash, and writer/booker Vince Russo. The storyline was referred to repeatedly throughout the two years but was never resolved by the time the company went out of business in 2001 to rival promoter, Vince McMahon, and World Wrestling Entertainment.
* In the car chase scene in The Rock, Sean Connery's character drives a Hummer H1.
* Hummer H2s can be seen on CSI: Miami. The investigators, most notably Horatio Caine, drive them to the crime scenes.
* The character Vincent Chase on the HBO television series Entourage owns a yellow H2, although in a recent episode, he gave it to his former head of security as part of a severance package.
* Rock star Neil Young drives a Hummer that is run on alternative biodiesel fuel.
* Nearly a decade before the Hummer was available to the general public, Car and Driver named the Humvee as the #1 vehicle to own in New York City, citing its ability to handle uneven terrain.
* The protagonists of the film Bad Boys 2 steal a yellow H2 from the villains to make their escape, driving it through the villains' exploding Cuban mansion, and then through a shanty town on the side of a mountain, demolishing part of the town as the vehicle crashes through the flimsy structures.
* Several customized H2s are used by Darius and his crew when trying to reach the US Capitol Building in XXX: State of the Union.
* Uncle Jimbo from South Park drives an H-1 and the H-2 appears in several episodes of South Park.[citation needed]
* In Gone in 60 Seconds, the team has to steal a purple Hummer. They give a name to every car they steal with the name 'Tracy' given to the Hummer.
* A FoxTrot storyline featured Roger test-driving a "Humbler", a parody of the Hummer with extremely exaggerated characteristics (the tires alone were about twice Roger's height, it got fuel economy ratings of 25/31 (city/highway) meters per gallon and apparently has a greater mass than the Earth itself)
* Family Guy featured a flashback where a man is driving a Hummer on the highway while watching Madagascar on DVD. He cuts someone off, causing cars behind him to crash and explode.
* In Hey Arnold episode "Arnold's Halloween" Big Bob Pattaki (Helga and Olga's father) drives a Hummer H1.
* In the Power Rangers:In Space episode "A Line In The Sand" a driverless H1 stalks the rangers and transports them to a desert wasteland.
* In The Simpsons episode "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"", Marge drives a "Canyonero", a thinly-veiled parody of a Hummer.
* The Hummer H2 is available to be purchased and able to be driven in the video game Need for Speed Underground 2. It can also be raced in several races in the game.
* In the 2001 film "Exit Wounds" Latrell Walker (DMX) and T.K. Johnson (Anthony Anderson) drive a Hummer H1.
Hummer H3
The Hummer H3 SUV/Tri/x is a vehicle from General Motors' Hummer division, introduced in 2006. The H3 is the smallest of the three Hummer models, and though the H3 concept car was a pickup truck, the final vehicle is a conventional SUV. Its GMT345 platform is based on the GMT355 which underpins the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon pickup trucks. Built on a heavily modified Colorado/Canyon pickup truck frame (most major parts are functionally similar, but only a few brackets are actually shared), the H3 shares many driveline and ancillary components with its siblings.
The H3 is built at GM's Shreveport, Louisiana factory. Export versions will also be produced at the General Motors South Africa facility in Struandale, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
In the American market, the H3 is priced from $29,500 to just over $40,000. Sales have been strong, with the 33,140 sold in 2005 making up 58% of Hummer's total sales for the year. For the first two months of 2006, 8,071 H3s were sold, 74% of all Hummer sales.
The H3 uses the 3.7 L (3464 cc) Atlas straight-5 engine. The same engine that is used in the Chevrolet Colorado/GMC Canyon pickup trucks. This 20-valve DOHC unit produces 242 hp (164 kW) at 5600 rpm and 242 ft·lbf (305 N·m) at 2800 rpm. It is available with a 5-speed manual or 4-speed automatic transmission that includes GM's Stabilitrak vehicle stability control. Its 111.9 in (2842 mm) wheelbase is 1.1 in (28 mm) shorter than the GMT360 SUVs. It includes an electronically-controlled dual-speed transfer case and electronic locking differential. In 2007, a new Atlas straight-5 engine was introduced. It is 3.7 liters, and makes 242 hp and 242 lbft.
Since it is rated at less than 8500 lb (3856 kg) (GVWR), Hummer is required to provide official fuel economy ratings. It is rated at 16 mpg in the city cycle with both transmissions and 19 mpg (US) (14.7 L/100km) with the automatic or 20 mpg (US) (11.7 L/100km) with the manual on the highway. While the Hummer H2 will ford 20 inches (0.5 m) of water, the H3 will handle 24 inches (0.6 m) of water (it has been tested in depths up to 31 inches). The H3 is the only vehicle in its class to have a 2-speed transfer case standard.
