Awesome news for us Exxon/Mobil Investors. Thank you GM for your continued dedication to consuming as much gas as possible. Without you, we wouldn’t be as successful (and rich) as we are.

Big Oil

p.s. Hopefully more and more of the buying public will wise up and trade their piddly little car in for a superior gas sucking SUV from General Motors. This 2 dollar per gallon gas isn’t doing any justice to my oil stocks. C’mon people, you KNOW you want a Hummer!

wouldnt the H4 be smaller than the H3? and the H3 is equal, if not smaller than the trailblazer. Last i heard the H4 was supposed to be a wrangler competitor, which is what it should be, and is exactly what competition that niche segment needs.

Yeah, I thought the H4 was supposed to be more like the Wrangler, too. I don’t think they need another pick-up style Hummer. The H2 SUT is enough, and it’s really useless as a “truck.” The tow rating is low, and the bed is only useful as a ice chest for beach parties.

Stop blaming GM for the gas consumption. Blame yourself. Every person has the choice of buying the vehicle that they want to drive, even if you’re poorer (in fact, cheaper cars generally do better mpg-wise). So, let people vote with their waller and get out of their lives. You can still buy your hybrid and I’ll still buy my 30mpg station wagon. If someone else is happy with an Explorer or an H2 or whatever, great! It’s a FREE COUNTRY.

The liberals wanted a gas tax when it was $1, well now that it hovers around $3 they still want it. Look, we are a rich nation and we can afford to live richely. Now if you’d only let us drill ANWAR and the Florida coast, we could get gas cheaper again!

The Trailblazer is dead anyway. I don’t visualize a Chevy customer stepping into the price range of Hummer.
Most likely, Chevy will eventually get a variant of the Acadia.
As to the H4, I agree that it should be a smaller vehicle to compete with the X3 and upcoming smaller MB.
A Hummer pickup truck is a bad model. I think the H2 pickup has sold in small numbers and most folks would rather have a F150 Harley or an Avalanche for the same amount of money.

I read somewhere that less that 10% of a barrel of oil goes to gas. Therefore, whining about 12 MPG isn’t going to do much in the long run, particularly when the H3 is right on par with its competitors in MPG. H3T and H4 will undoubtedly be the same, leaving only the H2 to suck gas, but really it’s on par with status symbols. I don’t hear anyone complaining about cars that get the guzzler tax (Vanquish, Continental, etc.) even though their mileage is comparable to the H2.

“angelo” is correct, but don’t worry “OilInvestor”, this respite from coming record prices is just an opportunity for GM to make some money before sales of these trucks plummet.

I think they should have iteratively smaller and smaller versions of the Hummer with coresponding names (H5, H6, H7, etc). Hell, they could have and H14 as an alternative to the MB’s Smart car.

and lets hope we never have to see anything smaller than a wrangler-sized vehicle from Hummer. i doubt they could successfully pull off an X6 type off-road coupe.

Right on guys, if someone wants to buy a gas sucking GM SUV, they have every right to. Got more than a dozen full sizers to choose from. Who really gives a **** about the planet anyways. By the time we have to worry about running out of resources, we’ll be dead anyways Enjoy it while you’re here.

Thank you GM for your continued dedication and devotion to gas consumption. You guys rule.

I feel sorry for guys who feel the need to pay more money for a bigger, uglier truck w/ less interior space and lower fuel economy than any comparable machine…

…must be sad when you have to prove you’re a man with what’s in your driveway.

What is everyone talking about? I know the H2 was a gas guzzler but how do you know what the fuel economy on this new one will be? And how is this all about GM? Are they the only ones that make SUVs?

Worry about the planet? that shtick is so old and tired please. Get a new cause (a real one with actual facts) and then get a life.

“OilInvestor”, the market will correct your perceived imbalance in time. Europe is an example.

Focus your concern on the skyrocketing consumption and pollution coming out of China.

In the meantime, rake in the $ as price/barrel continues its ascent.

GM is a corporation that supplies whatever customers want.
If customers do not want Suburbans, Hummers and Cadillacs, GM would stop building them. But customers want them, so there we go.
Toyota is about to launch a bigger, heavier Tundra because their focus groups identified their customers wanted a BIGGER truck with a BIGGER engine.
So stop blaming any corporation in particular. This is a problem we all face.
If you want to purchase a Prius, go right ahead. But be careful how you dispose of the batteries once the car is dead- you know, those also harm the planet.

As some of you may recall, before the Camaro was green lit for production, it , along with the HUMMER H4 were being activley promoted by Bob Lutz. Now that the Camaro has been greenlit (thank god!!), it is extremely likely that the H4 has been green lit as well. I can’t even imagine why GM consider an H1 replacement, seeing as there is a no market for another beastly gas guzzler, and GM already has more than enough big SUVS. On the other hand, the market for the H4 is huge, seeing as compact SUVS are currently very popular. So, I think it is safe to say this announcement is for the 2009 H4.

Yeah Hummer, bring the H-4 without the crappy I-5 for once, please thank you. You have a perfectly useable, powerful yet smooth I-6 powerplant that you can borrow from Chevrolet, so there’s no excuse. Anything over 3,500 lbs. needs a decently-sized engine!

Oilinvestor: I’m right behind you! Let’s buy a lot of gasguzzlers and use up all the oil before we…eh…run out of oil. And don’t mind the pollution, in fact pollution is good for you and we’ll just enjoy our stay here as long as it lasts, heck we’ll party with guys like Fatsrat (?!) and his piers and we’ll all go together when we go and -for God’s sake-put the blame on China…Or India.

So: Let’s share a six-pack and send all our best wishes to visionary companies like GM. Cheers.

They need to go diesel or just drop the line.

I mean price on tax of SUV’s

How many Hummer-hating cry babies drive their kids to school, then pick them up from school to take them to soccer practice, then pick them up from practice to go to the mall, then drive them to McDonalds, etc? It’s not what people drive as much as it is driving habits. And how many Prius-driving “save-the-planet” types live over half an hour from their workplace? If someone lives near work, walks or rides a bike or takes public transportation when possible, and has their kids (if they have them) do the same, they may have a right to complain. Those who don’t need to shut the hell up.

Yea Peter G! then when we are done with the partying you can take a grade school spelling and vocabulary course!

Pardon my english…My french is even worse.

Hummers are Faux-offroaders. I go trail riding regularly with a group of guys in the mountains off the Oregon Coast. Seen only a couple H2’s out there, and they were just TOW vehicles for the real 4×4s – Jeeps. An H2 can’t maneuver around tight trails and trees and rocks here. It will just get stuck, and bashed up. Don’t care if it’s lifted with a blower, it still sucks offroad. As far as the Fuel Economy whining in here, people will buy and drive what they can afford. If you can afford to buy and feed a 10mpg Lux-UV then great. Go nuts. Enviro-nazi’s expecting everyone to run out and Prius’ are just lost mis-informed souls. I read somewhere GM can build 3 Suburbans for the same resources Toyota puts into 1 Prius. I need to find that article…

Think about it, anytime you hear anything about Gorbachev these days he’s at some environmental convention. Make your own supositions.

WonbyOne: And?

the only way hummers are going to become semi-fuel-efficient and continue to satisfy their target market is through DIESEL POWER

and ironpony… all of those jeeps were probably wranglers
if you were to put an H2 next to a Grand cherokee it would certainly perform on a more equal level. Hummers can also handle terrain better so long as space is not limited. take a bone stock wrangler next to a bone stock H2 and put it in some open mud pit, and i think the performance will be close. and i own a wrangler so dont think im bashing it.. but the fact is that hummers are nasty offroad just as well as a jeep.. and if Hummer had a wrangler-sized vehicle, it would perform to equal, if not better standards. The reason jeeps can maneuver so easily is cause of the short wheelbase, another reason why they were so hesitant to produce a 4-door wrangler, which doesnt have quite as good an off road prowess as the classic 2-door variant has, aimply because of its size.

A Hummer that gets better than 19mpg just ain’t a Hummer.

Dodge – can you provide a link? I would like to read more about this. Proposing oil is not decomposed matter is a pretty unpopular belief. Sounds interesting.

Piablo,

Here ya go. Seeing as you think global warming is some kind of giant conspiracy I’m guessing this will be right up your alley.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin

Not that Wikipedia is a great source, but it should get you started. Look around and you will see that this is not a very popular theory with most Geologist. Then, they are part of the conspirancy, right?

hummers are suppose to be gas suckers
if it’s not…this gives a reason for it to be a stupid trend setter
I’m guessing they’ll dub this the h4, since they can’t come up with clever names
and to boot, it’ll probably be a carbon copy design like the others
I just don’t like them

RustedEmpire: Do you really think ANYONE cares if you like them or not? I’m getting sick of the ever growing trend of everyone being a critic. How about this, if you don’t like ‘em, STFU and don’t talk about ‘em. If it’s sh*t to you, stop rolling in it.

Jesus, too many stupid people in this world.

Peter G. ‘Draw your own conclusions’ is sort of an invitation to…draw your own conclusions.
I can further define if need be.

GMC, if the Hummer ‘has been played out’ the why do you suppose the sales are what they are? (reasonably good).
No one is forcing you to own one, but I bet you like the road improvements paid for by the extra taxes drivers of larger vehicles pay.
I suppose owning an exotic car which would get as bad or worse fuel economy would be just fine to you wouldnt it?
Can you say ‘double standard?

Come on General! Let’s make this puppy get like 12mpg! Daddy needs a new Pool!!!

You sound like a retard BLANKy. Must be a Hummer owner.