Get ready, the Quiet Revolution is coming. Zero emissions. Zero limits. Despite being produced by different automakers, the Hummer and the Jeep share a military heritage that reaches back to World War II. And if we compared the offroad features of the two side by side, they would seem quite similar.
GMC says that this Hummer can make 1, hp and go from 0 to 60 mph in 3. This Hummer will be available in one-motor, two-motor, and three-motor configurations.
The tech behind this Hummer is light-years ahead of the H3T, but the latter was at least 10 years ahead its time in the first place.
The short history of the H3T. View this post on Instagram. Start a new General question. Own this car? Share your experience with others. Write a car review. Search General Questions. CarGurus Experts. Know more, shop wisely Search. The first civilian version did not go on sale until spring, , marketed as the Hummer H1. Several different versions were offered including a four-door pickup, a four-door station wagon, a four-door slantback, a two-door pickup, and a four-door pickup with a convertible soft top.
Engines under the hood of the civilian H1 included a turbocharged 6. A gasoline 5. Transmissions were automatics, and included an Allison five-speed toward the end of production, as well as a three-speed and a four-speed earlier on in the product cycle. The civilian H1 was able to ford 30 inches of water, had a central tire inflation system allowing the driver to decrease or increase pressure with a press of a button as an option and also had an available leather interior.
But the H1 was also not particularly roomy inside and not very tall given the height of the floor. The civilian H1 spent 14 years on the market, from through the Sales were actually quite modest in proportion to its popular image. In total, 11, H1s were sold during the year run.
A concept shown at the Detroit auto show previewed the Hummer H2, aiming to take the brand mainstream given the rising popularity of large SUVs in the U. The Hummer H2 debuted for the model year, keeping the H1's general design direction while using a GM truck platform, along with beefy V8 engines.
The H2 was also offered as a four-door pickup, even though the H2T's usable cargo room was quite limited. The SUV and the pickup versions were both lifestyle vehicles, so on-road ability and luxury features took priority over many other considerations, including fuel economy and advanced off-road ability. Sales were the strongest during the second, third and fourth years of production, but tapered off significantly toward the end of the decade. During the Iraq War, the vast majority of the Humvees deployed to the country were initially unarmored, and only received improvised armor Army mechanics created later on.
Even by the end of , the U. Army had 12, unarmored Humvees in use in Iraq, and only 1, armored ones. Still, there was only so much steel and ballistic glass that could be feasibly added to the exteriors and interiors in the field, so the vehicles were often vulnerable to small arms fire and IEDs.
Due to ongoing insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon began a program to eventually replace the Humvee with a new design, one intended to carry a lot of armor from the start and also offer increased protection against mines and IEDs. Military operations in the s also forced the armed forces to source entirely new and existing designs for MRAPs to perform patrol and other roles, often in short time frames. The gas crises in the mid s and the economic crash hurt the popularity of the H2 and H3, and they became to be seen as caricatures of an era of excess and cheap oil.
H2 sales had slowed to a trickle by , the last year of production. GM introduced the Hummer H3 starting in the model year, fielding a smaller and more nimble model based on a truck platform shared with the GMC Canyon and Chevrolet Colorado.
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