Hummer

Give Hummer credit for one thing; you can’t mistake it for another car. Few vehicles have been as immediately recognizable, and as divisive, as the Hummer line. Hummers are sort of a modern day version of a Jeep taken to the next level. The origin of the vehicle can be found in the design of the Humvee military vehicle. The Hummer H1 was … Keep Reading → released in 1992. It’s speculated that the popularity was in part due to the coverage of the Gulf War. The H1 ceased production in 2006. Hummer came out with smaller versions as it attempted to make vehicles that were more road worthy. The H2 and H3 were last ditch efforts to find a larger market for the vehicle. Hummer was swimming upstream though, both with the trend for smaller vehicles and with the financial difficulties of Hummer’s parent, General Motors. On February 24, 2010 General Motors announced that it was folding the Hummer brand.