Very recently we have discussed how the Hummer H6 has made its way on to the streets of Moscow and how the Hummer is mostly a vehicle that drinks too much of fuel and offers very little in terms of variation. Many who saw the latest H6 on the streets actually thought that it was a very ugly extension of the Hummer H2 and those who had no idea of the car thought that its pictures on net were photoshopped! That is pretty much as bad a reputation the Hummer could have brought for GM.

So after years of people across the planet banging and bashing up this GM giant, the company has finally called it a day on the venture. GM and Hummer have officially decided to discontinue the Hummer H2 after years of lagging sales and a good deal of negative publicity that the car has brought to GM. While the car remains popular, the Hummer brand in general, and the H2 specifically, have been on a continual sales slide for the last five years or so. The vehicle, as the most inefficient SUV on the road, has become less appealing since gas prices have more than tripled in the last ten years. Now that contributed in a huge way to the downfall of the giant.

GM has also bemoaned that its “iconic” vehicle has such a negative stigma with a large and growing portion of the population while the world’s largest company, Toyota, has the Prius as its iconic vehicle. The question is what vehicle will replace the H2 as GM’s icon in the next 10 years? The bad news is that GM is going to keep selling the car in its current incarnation until 2011 at least, possibly hanging around until 2014. But development on updated H2s, and the planned diesel version, have both been canceled. Hummer will keep making cars, but will concentrate on the smaller H3, and the even smaller upcoming bio-fueled HX.
Apparently GM could still change their mind on this one, but I firmly suggest them not to as really the Hummer is not as appealing as they might have felt while launching it. I just don’t see room for the H2 in the consumer market place any longer. Let’s hope that this focus on efficiency and consumer demand for greener-looking companies will have real effects on vehicle efficiency in the next 10 years. Green automobile technology is the way to go in future and GM better make sure that hey do not miss the bus on this.

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