That H1 Hummer You Always Dreamed About Owning Is Alive And Well As Long As You Don't Live In The US

Bob Lutz And Henrik Fisker’s feisty Michigan-based VLF Automotive is bringing the H1 back to the masses — provided they don’t reside in North America. Lutz has struck a deal with Humvee Export, a small collective of off-road enthusiasts and entrepreneurs in Saint Clair, Michigan to assemble the trucks using GM powertrains at VLF’s petite factory in Auburn Hills. Even though General Motors abandoned the Hummer brand in 2010, and H1 assembly in 2006,

AM General has continued production of the High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle for allied military use. It has also begun offering a C-Series kit to private citizens for $60,000 in 2013, which includes the HMMWV platform minus a powertrain. Seeing an opportunity, Humvee Export began ordering C-Series kits that same year — finishing them off for sale in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. In 2017, they branched out to include export to China and are enlisting VLF in order to expand production.

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mre30 - 5/9/2017 10:42:39 AM

+1 Boost

If Bob Lutz was smart - he would contact the White House and ask them if President Trump wants to visit the plant to showcase "American Jobs".

Trump would hop into the drivers seat of the export Hummer in a nano-second and Lutz & Co would have the best free publicity out there.

What dictator, despot, drug lord, or oligarch would pass up a Hummer after the media blasts the photos across the google-sphere?

Get the White House on the phone, stat!