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The Hummer H1 is a full-size four-wheel-drive utility vehicle based on the M998 Humvee, which was developed by AM General when it was a subsidiary of American Motors Corporation (AMC). [2] Originally designed strictly for military use, the off-road vehicle was released to the civilian market.
The first sales from auction occurred on 17 December 2014 for 25 of the Humvees. Bids ranged from $21,500 for a 1989 M1038 to $41,000 for a 1994 AM General M998A1. The average bid was around $30,000 and the sale of the 25 vehicles netted $744,000 total. [174] GovPlanet has since taken over the contract and sells Humvees at its weekly online ...
Hummer (stylized in all caps) is an American brand of pickups and marketed in 1992 when AM General began selling a civilian version of the M998 Humvee. [1] Although discontinued in 2010, Hummer returned as a model under GMC in 2020.
The Hummer H2 went on the market in 2002, and was produced until January 2009. It was designed and marketed by GM, but manufactured by AM General at the Mishawaka plant. AM General did not build the H3 model. GM was sued early in 2003 by DaimlerChrysler, owners of the Jeep brand, for the resemblance of the Hummer's seven-slot grille to Jeep's. [13]
US Military Wheeled Vehicles (3 ed.). Victory WWII. ISBN 0-970056-71-0. Doyle, David (2003). Standard catalog of U.S. Military Vehicles. Krause. ISBN 0-87349-508-X. Archived from the original on 15 January 2018; Standard Military Vehicle Data Sheets. Ordnance Tank Automotive Cmd. 1959. Archived from the original on 10 December 2014
As the largest 4WD vehicle ever built by Toyota, its design resembles that of the Humvee and Hummer H1. [2] Like the Humvee, the Mega Cruiser was originally designed primarily for military use [3] with the vehicle seeing duty as a transport vehicle in the Japan Self Defense Forces (see ja:高機動車). [4]
The XR311 was a prototype military vehicle of US origin that was procured in limited numbers during the 1970s. It was originally developed as the High Mobility Combat Vehicle, or HMCV (not to be confused with the JGSDF MCV, which was also called the "HMCV" for a short time).
Lamborghini built its first military vehicle, a prototype vehicle codenamed "Cheetah", in 1977. Lamborghini had designed the vehicle with hopes of selling it to companies in the oil exploration and production industry. [4] The original Cheetah prototype had a rear-mounted Chrysler V8 engine. The only finished prototype was never tested by the U ...