February 4, 2012

Hummer Dead – Probably

The sale of Hummer by GM to China’s Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery has been stopped by China’s Government. Is this the end for Hummer? Now that GM has finally got rid of Saab to Spyker it looked as if it was also on track to divest itself of the anathema of modern car sensibilities – the [...]

Hummer bought by Sichuan Tengzhong

Hummer is to be bought by Chinese Company Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery.

Who’s bought Hummer? Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company, apparently. Never heard of them! We’ve got used to quite a number of Chinese car companies lately. BYD have been in the news with their MOU with VW, and BYD has also hit the headlines with its new car battery technology for EVs and of course [...]

Hummer sale agreed

Hummer deal dead. Is this the end of the brand?

After the official bankruptcy of GM was declared yesterday, GM has announced that it has also reached agreement to shed its troublesome (certainly in these eco-friendly times) Hummer operation. GM are reporting that they have reached a ‘Memorandum of Understanding’  with an unnamed buyer to take Hummer of their hands later in the year. MOUs [...]

California leads the way with Hydrogen cars

The Governator in his hydrogen-powered Hummer

[ad#ad-1] Now this is something I really approve of. As many of you will have seen on last week’s Top Gear, May was out playing with the Honda’s FCX Clarity in California, and commented, just as we have, that this is the real way forward for electric cars. The Honda FCX Clarity is the first [...]