General Motors will launch a new Hummer model in 2009, a General Manager Martin Walsh told Reuters yesterday. Currently, the brand has two models: the H3 and the H2. The large H1 was discontinued this summer.
“The new product will have unparalleled off-road capabilities,” Walsh said. “Like our current Hummers it would be recognizable from a distance.”
The 2009 model is expected to be one in a series of new offerings from the GM division. In September, Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said the company intended to add two or three products to the Hummer line. He said a pickup truck was one of the projects under consideration. In October, spy photographers caught a Hummer H3 fitted with a Chevrolet bed in early testing. In all likelihood, this will be the first of the new Hummers. In June, rumors began circulating that General Motors might dump the Chevrolet TrailBlazer and effectively replace it with a new Hummer model called the H4.
