Well seeing that Hummer was sold to China, see you later and now the Marines are all ready buying a version of the vehicle that will fit into the belly of the Osprey.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzxZm...ayer_embedded#

 

Why oh why does the J8 have street tires?!?

It should fill the role fine though. As a light scout vehicle. Weighs a LOT less than a HMMWV, and is dimentionally smaller.

Sure wish I ould get that diesel engine that it has though :/

 

The Hummer sales deal fell apart. Now they are just stopping production all together unless somebody else desides to pony up and buy the brand.

 

those tires are killing me. machine guns, and tires that belong on the wife's car!

 

It has not fallen apart. It simply has not been completed. The production has been pushed out to the end of this month. But right now Hummer has over 6 months worth of inventory. So its not like dealers will be running out any time soon.

 

Been finalized since October. Tons of links on it.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gm-...9-10-08-204300

 

It was never approved by Chinese regulators.

As of Feb 1st. (Source: Autoblog)

As readily illustrated by the dramatic and protracted sale of Saab to Spyker – a process that itself is not yet concluded – it's clear that extracting brands from General Motors is a time-intensive process. No surprise, then, that GM and Chinese manufacturer Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery have reportedly decided to extend the deadline on a Hummer sale until month's end.

The two companies have been working to sew everything up on the SUV brand deal since it was first announced last October, but the original deadline expired yesterday (Jan 31st) without a resolution. According to the AFP, the holdup actually stems from the fact that the sale needs to get approval from Chinese regulators, an issue that has been noted before. As you may recall, China's commerce ministry previously went on record as saying that they hadn't received an application for approval from Tengzhong, and it is just one of the Chinese government agencies that need to sign off on the deal

 

Well I'll be dawg. Maybe Hummer will just wither away and die.

 

We can only hope for as much. That junk couldn't go away fast enough if you ask me.

 

I'm certainly happy to see the J8 is getting more army support but I'm also sad as this won't help us much in quality improvement as the J8 and JK does not share much on the mechanical plan, except maybe the diesel engine but we don't have this around here.