From: Darrell Ramsell (daram@comcast.net)
Date: Sun May 14 2006 - 21:30:57 PDT
Hi Rich
I figured it's high cost was a factor.
I have a Marine friend who's the head of the local Motor-T tell me that the
Marines pay $38,000 for a standard HMMWV. Now I know the H-1 has a lot more
comfort and luxury items compared to the HMMWV but I find it hard to believe
that all those extras would cost an additional $60,000. Maybe someone can
shed some light on that?
Darrell
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From: <vlmuke@comcast.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] General Motors to End Hummer H1 Production
> Hi
> Here is some info on the H1
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> Someone mentioned that why don'y they sell commercial versions of the H1,
> Actually that is what the H1 was orginally intended for But famous people
> like Arnold and other stars made them popular, the other thing is that the
> commercial versions were too expensive for most commercial users, they
> made a firetruck, amubulance versions, rescue trucks ect, they sold some
> but not very many, they concetrated on the puplic instead, a modified pick
> up is less than half the cost of a H1.
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> Our Local paper and some friends that work there said that right now
> sales are down and the costs are too high they run any where from 90,000
> to 140,00 dollars for an H1 and they get alot of complaints that they
> won't fit in a parking spaces, can't fit in most garages and right now the
> demand is for the Humvee is very high and they orginally started making
> them as the humvee production was slowing but since Iraq the demand for
> humvees has been high
> and they have a higher profit margin with the humvee
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> Hope this helps
> RichB
> Elkhart, IN
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> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: MV <MV@dc9.tzo.com>
>> > We'll be down to Honda, Toyota (Seen the new FJ Cruiser? Its METAL!!!)
>> > Volvo, S&S, Dodge, and a few others like Volvo.
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>> It sure would be nice if some of these were actually American companies.
>> Well I think S&S is, but that hardly counts. Being an ex-Detroiter
>> and an ex-GM engineer just makes all of these bunglings hard to swallow.
>> They were screwed up when I left in '82 and it's been a downhill
>> slide for GM ever since. In the late 70's GM believed that they were
>> making close to 60% of the cars sold in the US. They didn't advertise
>> that fact and actually skewed the numbers that were reported to avoid
>> anti-trust actions. They were seriously concerned about the Government
>> breaking up the company. Not much later some real bozo's (bean
>> counters) took control of the company and began to drive it into the
>> ground.
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>> Dave
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>> Ryan Gill wrote:
>> > At 10:39 AM -0400 5/13/06, MV wrote:
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>> >> GM - a bunch of idiots trying to make things.
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>> >> Their decision making ability is dismal.
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>> >> Example: GM Heavy truck division sold to Volvo - now Volvo truck -
>> >> uh... have you seen just a couple of Volvo trucks on the road?
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>> > Volvos been doing the Military Truck thing in Europe. Give them another
>> > 5-10 yeras, and they'll be shooting for US contracts soon.
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>> >> If only these guys had a clue about how to run a company.
>> >> Unfortunately all of the guys who actually grew General Motors and
>> >> Ford are dead. Apparently now the only guys in control are bean
>> >> counters and since they don't make beans, they are screwed.
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