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RE: Hummer brand sold to Indian company - 7/7/2008 5:03:17 PM
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duckstu
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In the next 90 days GM will sell off either Saab of Saturn. My source thinks it is more likely to be Saab.
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RE: Hummer brand sold to Indian company - 7/7/2008 5:46:04 PM
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gregc
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They may as well sell of Saab. They''re done ruining that mark. I used to be a real fan of Saabs; the old 99 & 900, pre-GM models. Oh well.....
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RE: Hummer brand sold to Indian company - 7/7/2008 9:26:18 PM
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Hummer Guy
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In the next 90 days GM will sell off either Saab of Saturn. My source thinks it is more likely to be Saab.
So we''ve gotta wait 90 day to call B.S.? I hate waiting...
But wait - is this a real sale your source is predicting? Or will it be another ''secret'' sale like the ''done deal'' Hummer sale you''ve already claimed...
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RE: Hummer brand sold to Indian company - 7/8/2008 6:09:25 AM
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HummerGuy
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The sale of Saturn and/or Saab is no secret. My wife saw it on the news yesterday afternoon. That would lead me to believe that whoever is leaking info to duskstu is leaking it to the press.
Just my personal opinion, but European cars should be owned by European companies. I think Ford and GM need to go old school and get back to focusing on their own brands. I think Ford has done well with Mazda. Volvo seems to do well also (and I just bought one).
I''''ve been getting alot of crap lately about thinking about selling my H3 in the spring, but it has nothing to do with gas prices. We are planning on having kids in the next few years and the way the economy is, I want to save every penny I can for their future and in case the economy gets worse, have money saved for emergencies. Some people just have genuine reasons for wanting to sell their trucks, but I think GM is making a big mistake thinking about selling, IF that is in-fact what they are doing.
They''''ve invested so much time and money into building the name, and after what, more then 3 or 4 years, they are going to let the last few months erase what they have done for years? Everybody knows that Hummers are one of their most profitable lines. They need to stick it out for a while if they can financially afford to do so and work on improving their reputation via the media, commercials, public involvement, etc instead of just running away from it. To me, whoever is running the show over there needs to go back to school and take some marketting classes. Their commercials care more about focusing on the trucks and not about improving their tarnished image.
Here''''s an idea; how about you make some commercials about the benefits of having a Hummer, and not some cliche''''d video of a Hummer driving through mud. I mean, give me a break. How many years have we watched commercials of Hummers driving through mud? Are you freakin'''' kidding me? The NEW commercials show that.
I''''m sorry but if you don''''t know by now that a Hummer can drive down a dirt trail, try driving in a normal car, because most of the dirt roads they show Hummers driving down can be driving with a normal vehicle.
How about you create commercials disproving the stereotype about them being bad for the environment, focus more on safety for your family, more on how the H3 gets better mileage then MOST comparable SUV''''s out there, etc.?
Come ON GM. It doesn''''t take a marketting genious to figure this out. Any die-hard Hummer owner as ourselves that are involved in the REAL Hummer community can tell you how to save the brand.
Maybe it''''s time for a change in management or staffing. Maybe they need some, oh, ya know, CREATIVITY?
I''''ll stop now before I get even more pissed at ignorant management  People need to come into the real world and get their heads out of their book theory.
< Message edited by HummerGuy -- 7/8/2008 6:11:31 AM >
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RE: Hummer brand sold to Indian company - 7/8/2008 6:52:58 AM
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D VADER
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But remember it''s now a World Market. It''s no longer local to the USA. Practically everything in your Hummer is outsourced to other companies, many of which are off-shore. Just like my American Dell computer. Open it up and many of the parts are made in Mylasia!! My Cadillac CTS had a French transmission and a German rear differential.
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RE: Hummer brand sold to Indian company - 7/8/2008 7:03:48 AM
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It''s NOT sold yet! But if it does sell I have a Big Red Dot for the center of my windshield!
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RE: Hummer brand sold to Indian company - 7/8/2008 7:29:49 AM
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HummerGuy
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It may be a world market, but the rest of the world isn''t seeing our marketing campaign, if that is what they want to call it.
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RE: Hummer brand sold to Indian company - 7/8/2008 7:31:09 AM
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H34me
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It''''s NOT sold yet! But if it does sell I have a Big Red Dot for the center of my windshield!
LMFAO! Now that''''s hysterical.
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RE: Hummer brand sold to Indian company - 7/8/2008 11:24:15 AM
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Hummer Guy
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The sale of Saturn and/or Saab is no secret. My wife saw it on the news yesterday afternoon. That would lead me to believe that whoever is leaking info to duskstu is leaking it to the press.
Speculation of which brands has been swirling around for a year or more nothing new there especially among the smaller brands (Hummer, SAAB, Saturn). The consideration of downsizing in brands has to be a topic of discussion of GM execs, which is what the news is reporting. To say that one of the brands is getting the ax in less than 90 days is a little absurd, almost as absurd that Hummer has already been sold and that its a done deal.
It takes a lot longer than a few weeks, or even months, to complete a deal involving hundreds of millions of dollars, broken dealer agreements, decisions about multiple factories, reorganization of GM, etc.
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RE: Hummer brand sold to Indian company - 7/8/2008 11:32:04 AM
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HummerGuy
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Yup, especially if it''s an international deal. That''s even more complex.
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RE: Hummer brand sold to Indian company - 7/8/2008 7:14:05 PM
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Hummer needs to come up with a bio-diesal smart Hummer. Our Unimog is propane and our Ford 250 diesal runs on home brewed bio-diesal. We can make modifications for our parts we need to come up with why not a mod to run bio-diesal !! hehe
My 5 cents.......sell it to the Indians...maybe they will stop whinning over the land the white man stoled....hehe....I am not even drinking....got my new tie rods feeling them right now....hehe
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RE: Hummer brand sold to Indian company - 7/9/2008 10:34:29 AM
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Hummer needs to come up with a bio-diesal smart Hummer. Our Unimog is propane and our Ford 250 diesal runs on home brewed bio-diesal. We can make modifications for our parts we need to come up with why not a mod to run bio-diesal !! hehe
My 5 cents.......sell it to the Indians...maybe they will stop whinning over the land the white man stoled....hehe....I am not even drinking....got my new tie rods feeling them right now....hehe
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American Indians...Hmmmm.... I thought they were selling to that Mohinder guy on HERO''s.
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