Hummer to Shut Down, Discounting H2, H3

General Motors announced today that it will begin shutting down the Hummer brand after failing to secure a buyer. Part of the shutdown is a massive discounting on 2009 and 2010 Hummer models still on dealer lots, which comes to about 2,200 vehicles, GM says.

Buyers can get $6,000 in rebates on the 2009 Hummer H2 and H3, $5,000 on the 2009 H3T and $4,000 on 2010 H3T. Zero-percent financing will be offered instead of some of the cash rebates for qualified buyers.

Both the 2009 and 2010 Hummer H3 start at $33,390. The 2009 and 2010 H3T at $30,750 and $30,915, respectively. There weren’t significant changes between the two model years, so finding a 2009 would be worth the extra cash. The 2009 H2 starts at $63,090. We’d expect dealers will offer their own discounts on top of the cash back from GM.

You can find a new Hummer in Cars.com’s inventory by going here and entering your ZIP code.

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GM lost $4.3B in the first six months since emerging from bankruptcy. They now need another $12.3B to fund their pension. Obama better not give GM any more of our tax payer money! When is enough enough!

How about GM paying me to take one of those behemoths off their hands.

How about people quite buying Toyotas now that we have a national interest in not one but two of our own companies...only in America would we wish our own companies to fail. Alright, let the "I hate anything domestic" replies start, I'm done now.

Well put, TK; common as well as business sense would dictate we would want GM and Chrysler to succeed so we can recoup tax payer money as much as possible. instead, we have all sorts wishing the demise of these companies, and with it, any hope of getting anything back; only in America!

Only in America would we wish our own companies to fail? Not quite. GM and Chrysler were failures in themselves as Americans, building terrible vehicles on top of terrible business strategies and tactics. Why would I want to buy a car built by an American when a European or Asian can build it better? The bail-out should never have happened, so GM and Chrysler could *GASP* fail and allow other businesses to buy it out and make something of that product. People won't "stop buying Toyota's" to buy American when there is ZERO incentive to support their poor excuse of a product. The example is set by Ford, they knew what was coming and now look... they're actually building better cars and Americans are buying them. Who would've thought! Not GM and Chrysler obviously!

Ford vehicles are not as "good" as people make them out to be. It is not as much of an issue now, but Ford have been characterized by having some of the worst interiors of any manufacturer for years. The Expedition, Escape, F150, Super Duty, and Explorer are current examples of a past era. The updated Edge, the Taurus, Flex, and to an extent the Fusion are examples of the "new" Ford.

Ford vehicles are also characterized with loud and unrefined powertrains. Once again, the Escape, Expedition, and Explorer are examples. All of the powertrains in the Escape are loud, and the Explorer's and Expedition's are just unrefined and antiquated. Most other engines in Ford products just sound rough and unpolished. Even the V6 in the Lincoln MKS does not sound very good at all.

Braking is also not a Ford strong point across the line. Even newer models have only so-so braking for their class.

If Ford truly wants to stay credible in this market once the whole "buy American because Ford is equal to Toyota and Honda" hype wears off, they need to improve the interiors and powertrains of most of their vehicles, and the braking of all vehicles across the line. It would also help if they redesigned their high-volume vehicles every 5 years like every other manufacturer.

should really be any other COMPETENT manufacturer.

I will admit GM is run by idiots. There are many examples on the production line where the college educated bean counters took precedence over quality and refinement of problems during assembly. The so called managers could care less of quality as long as the numbers of vehicles met the quota for the shift. Instead of working out a solution of a problem found by the assembly workers during vehicle assembly, that might take 20 minutes(?) of downtime, do not stop the production line and the repair will take place at the re-process station. In the re-process station these vehicles could take a lengthy amount of time to alleviate the repair. In short instead of alleviating the problem now fix it later as long as the numbers are met on the quota board. I guess this sort of mentality has rubbed off on some of the foreign brands now as well. Because of the apathy brought about by a untrustworthy media this country is doomed for failure and ripe for a takeover that will be so subtle no one will notice until it is to late. The leaders today are definitely an untrustworthy lot. Look at Pelosi's new tax proposal on retirement windfall.

We are more likely to get our money back through liquidation of this failure known as Government Motors than to expect a company that hasn;t posted a profit since 2004 to all of a sudden turn 50+ billion in profit by next springtime.

My experience with GM was beyond negative, more than once and a company putting out such shoddy pieces of trash doesn't deserve the chance to continue building cars.

Turn them into a locomotive company since half their lineup is full of gas guzzling trucks and SUVs

TK, I agree with your statement, "only in America would we wish our own companies to fail." It amazes me. Rather then hope they get better or something else positive so many hope we fail. The really "great" thing is the someone else can do it better goes well beyond the auto industry.