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http://money.cnn.c...e/index.htm?hpt=T2
GM fails to unload yet another brand so my beloved Hummer will be going the way of Pontiac.
Even A Genius Has Questions!?!
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Finally. Glad to see it go.
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great all we need is buick, cadilac, chevrolet and GMC to go and were done.
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Posted by Nismo
great all we need is buick, cadilac, chevrolet and GMC to go and were done.
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No, we need to have Toyota and VW to be divisions of GM 
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Now, all joking aside, I think GM could of made more about Hummer than just another SUV. They had potential to at least squash the Land Cruiser if they developed. Instead they made it a giant pimpmobile.
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While I am sad to lose another division (and therefore jobs) I won't really miss the Hummer. The H1 was good for what it was designed for, but the others just didn't do it for me. Too each their own I guess.
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Posted by Agent Skelly
No, we need to have Toyota and VW to be divisions of GM
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well from what im reading of lee iacoccas autobiography, we came pretty close in the 70s for volks being a division of ford
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Posted by jeepdave
While I am sad to lose another division (and therefore jobs) I won't really miss the Hummer. The H1 was good for what it was designed for, but the others just didn't do it for me. Too each their own I guess.
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and lets not forget the H1 wasnt a product of GM!
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Posted by nostra-YOUPPI!
and lets not forget the H1 wasnt a product of GM!
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Yes, it was an AMC design
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Exactly! there was nothing Hummer in regards to H2, and H3.
H1 was the real deal.
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The H2 still had quite good offroad capability. But GM knew its customers weren't buying them to go offroading.
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I guess i'd better not comment on this thread seeing as how i'll probably get someone's back up over it. Again.
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don't really give a shit about Hummer. Never have. Never will.
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Ditto.
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Posted by Agent Skelly
Now, all joking aside, I think GM could of made more about Hummer than just another SUV. They had potential to at least squash the Land Cruiser if they developed. Instead they made it a giant pimpmobile.
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They had some fantastic concept vehicles that never saw the light of day beyond an auto show podium!
I guess i'd better not comment on this thread seeing as how i'll probably get someone's back up over it. Again.
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Quite frankly I wish you'd exercise that option more often.
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Even A Genius Has Questions!?!
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Posted by Samurai
don't really give a shit about Hummer. Never have. Never will.
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Same here.
I'm honestly still in a state of shock and/or denial Pontiac is going the way of Oldsmobile. I love my Tin Indian and hate to think she is now an endangered species! 
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i have repeated my stance on GM's strategy in other threads. I feel that GMC truck should've gotten the axe. Chevrolet has always been the entry level division. Pontiac should've been an uplevel independent car line. Would it have been such a stretch to revamp your product line to have cars that don't look like a Chevrolet?
Pontiac should've been a performance car division only. No minivans, no sedans... just cars made to get from point a to point b as rapidly as possible. Establish it as a limited production line, a halo brand akin to Cadillac.
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Posted by Samurai
i have repeated my stance on GM's strategy in other threads. I feel that GMC truck should've gotten the axe. Chevrolet has always been the entry level division. Pontiac should've been an uplevel independent car line. Would it have been such a stretch to revamp your product line to have cars that don't look like a Chevrolet?
Pontiac should've been a performance car division only. No minivans, no sedans... just cars made to get from point a to point b as rapidly as possible. Establish it as a limited production line, a halo brand akin to Cadillac.
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Completely agree with you here.
I can understand keeping Buick since it is so large overseas...but axing Pontiac while keeping GMC has got to be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard in my life.
Plus, I read shit like this, and its no wonder I believe GM's days are numbered.
This could be a huge mistake for General Motors, if they keep this up. GM is pushing to free up funds for major updates on their line of trucks – and apparently they already have several sources of funding. The company wants to remodel several existing truck lines for introduction in both the 2012 or 2013 model year, and the remodeling project would cost them over $1 billion. They haven’t updated their truck lines since 2006 and actually put off the new redesign because…well, because they went bankrupt and had to get bailed out by the government.
The plan is simple: remodel their truck line, spend a billion dollars doing so, and hope to get back enough over a year or two to pay back the $6.7 billion that the government loaned them while still turning a profit. GM is betting that consumers are going to just pick up (no pun intended) the new GM pickups when they start rolling off the production line, but customers really don’t want more GM pickups, or so it seems. Automobile transport numbers for GM trucks have been down recently, but GM doesn’t care about numbers it seems. They’re relying on their full-size pickup line to sell well in America despite the $3.00+ prices of gas in certain areas and the government’s insistence that they produce smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles.
This isn’t looking good for GM, but who knows – they might pull it off. They just need a miracle or seven, is all.
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I work at a tiny GM dealership, and we sell 20 or so trucks a week... amazingly enough.
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Posted by bandi
I work at a tiny GM dealership, and we sell 20 or so trucks a week... amazingly enough.
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my brother works at a small small dealership in Elizabethtown NY... their biggest sellers? Pickups (by a huge margin), Camaros and (get this) Cobalts.
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