Those Hummers are just FLYING off the shelves

[Hatfield]

Thought that some of you might enjoy this - a couple guys go investigate a local glut of Hummer inventory.

"The word around town was that the Hummers weren't moving... We were skeptical at first. Sources can be unreliable, but the scuttlebutt was that inventory had been building for months now and the local Hummer dealer had panicked. He had begun storing his Hummer inventory at an undisclosed location, far from the dealer showroom so as not to spook jittery, prospective buyers with the mounting number of unsold H2s and H3s."

Amusing/appalling story and pictures here.

[DaveinOlyWA]

OMG!!!

i am laughing so hard i cant even see what im typing

[Rancid13]

I saw that link to the blog and photos in the "Other Cars" forum the other day. Those pictures are truly priceless!

[Sufferin' Prius Envy]

I drove past a Hummer dealer in Sacramento a few days ago and was somewhat shocked at how full the lot looked. I pondered it for a while. It really doesn’t take all that many Hummers to fill up a dealer’s lot, but this lot was so packed, it looked bloated!

[Maytrix]

Has anyone bothered to read the follow up to the story? It appears the story is not quite as accurate as expected, although who knows for sure.

At $40 a pop, that's a 12 million dollar inventory. Unlikely they'd stay in business long if they not selling ANY.

[Rancid13]

Originally posted by Maytrix@Nov 6 2005, 05:57 PM
Has anyone bothered to read the follow up to the story?  It appears the story is not quite as accurate as expected, although who knows for sure. 

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Regardless of why the Hummers are in that lot, it's still a priceless thing to see a picture of so many of them lined up like that, ready to go to whomever needs an 'urban assault vehicle'. Thousand Oaks eh? Too bad they're not closer, I'd love to get a look-see in person. (If I had my Prius already, the 65 miles wouldn't stop me-as it is currently, that's approx. 1/3 a tank of gas for me round trip).

[hdrygas]

I don't know if this is important or not but on October 30 I saw a road side billboard ad just above a Hummer dealer for Toyota HSD. It was so good that I went back on 11/3 to take a picture of it and it was gone! One wonders why?

[Potential Buyer]

Yeah, the follow-up claimed 300 cars is a normal dealer inventory, and it said the H3s are selling briskly, though the H2s are not. But what's funny is the Consumer Reports review of the H3 totally slammed it -- apparently it takes 11.5 seconds to go 0-60, it got an average of 14 mpg when they drove it, had horrible visibility (just look at those windows), etc. Yet the consumer opinions were almost all positive. Quote from one post: "Pros: Turns on a dime and gets 20 MPG HWY!!!" WOW! (CU actually got 17.) Another person called the car's gas mileage a "plus".

[malorn]

Actaully the H1 and H2 are not moving very well at all, but GM is trying find extra production capacity for the H3.

[JackDodge]

It's actually a pretty good strategy for a vehicle like that that isn't selling very well. That is, make it seem scarce by storing the fleet of them somewhere else and just lie to the customers that you can't keep them on the lot. Well, that's a half truth. Then, the customer may be conned in to buying one when you pull him aside and whisper that you can get hold of one if he's really keen on getting one. It must be tough to be a car salesman at a GM dealer - having to lie all the time.