Rumor - GM is selling Hummer®, Chrysler should...
...buy and MERGE into Jeep®
10% (3 votes)
...buy and develop SEPARATELY (in addition to Jeep®)
7% (2 votes)
...buy and BURY to reduce competition
17% (5 votes)
...SKIP and let someone else buy
57% (17 votes)
other (drop in comments)
10% (3 votes)
Total votes: 30
Jeep should have bought Land Rover from Ford. Forget about Hummer. Jeep should make the J8 diesel available to the public.
I wouldn't give them $1 for
Submitted by Nitecop on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 14:39.
I wouldn't give them $1 for it! Just what does the buyer get?
They are/were nothing but rebodied GM Trucks and SUVs.
If you all of sudden figured out how to sell a bunch of them Is GM going to sell you their engines? I wouldn't count on it.
It is a dying brand. I'd kill it before I'd dump any more money in it.
They should kill it and kill it now, after all the last thing they need is another company to compete with.
Chrysler should
Submitted by GeneralTJWillys on Mon, 10/06/2008 - 19:57.
buy it and keep the H1 but dump everything else, while using only the best ideas that, for legal reasons, they couldn't have used before they owned the marque. But, you know.....I cannot think of any!!!
They are re-bodied, re-badged, and glorified suburbans as far as I'm concerned.
Also, I think Chrysler REALLY missed the mark by not putting that diesel into the Wranglers as an option as well as, or INSTEAD of, putting it in the Liberty. I would've bought a diesel Wrangler in a heartbeat!! THINK about it!! Fantastic low end torque.....perfect for crawling and off-roading in general, while still getting excellent mileage, and, if you've not driven a new-generation diesel in the past few years.....you're in for a big surprise. Very much cleaner burning and NO MORE STINKY!!
My plans are to convert my TJ to a 4-cyl turbo-diesel (probably from one of the Libertys) when (if) my 4.0 gives out.
Who knows how close to a
Submitted by reporter on Tue, 10/14/2008 - 13:56.
Who knows how close to a reality, but apparently the idea is back on the table (some report a 50/50 chance?) given all the recent market turmoil and drop in GM share price.
...There may be some future for the uncertain Hummer brand merged with Jeep, but Hummer doesn't have any platforms that Jeep would want. The Wrangler's on a relatively new platform and, if it's like other Wrangler platforms, should last for another five years at least...
