Comments on: Chinese netizens comment on Sichuan’s Hummer purchase.

By: Halden G. Fuller

Halden G. Fuller — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:58:03 +0000

RZ Technologies will not sell to Chinese Industrial Co. at this time.

By: Ooi Suan Hoe

Ooi Suan Hoe — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:36:35 +0000

I think by Nature ( AWD ) …Hummer should be in China .

1. The world most stringent & scenic landscape
2. The new emerging market
3. The world plentist $$ reserve
4. Cheap Labor & Great Product..
5. The innovative Chinese .. dont surprise that to see a Hummer with huge LPG tank in China .

By: Head Honcho

Head Honcho — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:57:38 +0000

Speaking from experience. I have opened a factory in the U.S. and in China. China is must less expensive to open a factory. It really is not even close from my experience. It isn’t just cheape labor that has brought so much manufacturing to China.

By: CCT

CCT — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:32:30 +0000

Cheap land in the USA makes opening factories rather cheap, infracstructure is abundent when compared to the PRC. Try opening a car factory in China, it’s a very expensive business.

American workers will be a massive commitment to take on, especially as they are, as you say, UAW workers. Hopefully Tengzhong will just give them the cash and tell them to get on with it.

Secretley, every man wants a Hummer, make a Hummer AWD ‘regular sized’ vehicle, i.e. wagons, and people will be queueing upto buy them.

By: Stan

Stan — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:32:50 +0000

Regarding this comment by CCT:
“With cheaper R&D in China, but cheap factories in the USA, they could easily become a world leader in AWD tech.”

I don’t think there are any “cheap factories” in the USA.
Hummer factory employees are all UAW union members. I don’t think the new owners have much experience dealing with labor unions, which don’t really exist in China.

Also, if the purchase is for the Hummer brand, it would be an uphill battle to leverage this brand while trying to reinvent it (CCT’s comment: American Subaru’ i.e. AWD cars, wagons, etc that dont cost the earth, but have awesome performance.)

I wish Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co and Hummer the best, but I don’t think it will be easy.

By: Shang

Shang — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:07:07 +0000

Are they going to put a 2.4L Mitsubishi engine in the new H3?

By: Twinkle Star

Twinkle Star — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:44:04 +0000

I hope that Tengzhong will invest more money in the Hummer brand and improving the brand more by bringing in more fuel efficient SUV’s and maybe pickup trucks in the future….

Hummer being maker of AWD cars??That would be a great idea..

By: CCT

CCT — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:00:13 +0000

Id like to see Hummer become the ‘American Subaru’ i.e. AWD cars, wagons, etc that dont cost the earth, but have awesome performance.

Id love a H3, but the Chinese price I saw was 690,000rmb – far from what I could afford. But in the USA Hummers are actually quite cheap for what you get, when say compared to a vehicle with similar capabilities from stables like Landrover. With cheaper R&D in China, but cheap factories in the USA, they could easily become a world leader in AWD tech.

By: Rick in China

Rick in China — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:50:57 +0000

I don’t know enough about Tengzhong to make a comment on their finances or ability to make use of Hummer, I really doubt few do

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:42:54 +0000

I am a HUMMER fanatic and this company is bringing to the table what HUMMER really needs which is funding. In addition to that they have plans to make HUMMER vehicles more fuel efficient and more cost effective to produce not to mention it is saving over 3000 U.S. jobs. All I have to sell is hell let em have at it and burn their money because during the process they will have improved HUMMER by leaps and bounds and made it a more tree hugger and normal person friendly car company without losing its footing as a niche market and extreme offroad vehicle manufacturer.

By: Head Honcho

Head Honcho — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:20:17 +0000

You really need to look beyond it being a brand that isn’t doing well. No one said they were locked into making huge SUVs that get bad gas mileage. It is still a well known brand that could be turned into something else. Not to mention Hummer does have plenty of technology to go with it that could still be used in smaller more fuel efficient SUVs.

By: dragin

dragin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:27:41 +0000

It’s a niche vehicle that won’t just go away. This will set a good precedent for Chinese manufacturing on U.S. soil. Good for both countries. Another giant step for globalism.

By: ohhenry

ohhenry — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:11:55 +0000

Perhaps Hummer will get tossed around like Land Rover did back in the day, with different manufacturers getting dibs on its tech, like many suspected BMW did in order to develop the X5. I suppose the smart ones should wait until they can pick Hummer up as a divesture/asset sale once Hummer has sucked Tengzhong dry.

By: I H_a t_e Chi_na

I H_a t_e Chi_na — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:33:01 +0000

Sichuan Tengzhong does get IPR to Hummer H2 and H3, so I have no doubt in Chinese ability to turn out exact replicas in one year, to be distributed by Sichuan as Hummers in the US.

By: Stan

Stan — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:45:02 +0000

I thinks it’s a terrible idea as well. Unless there is a significant transfer of technology, the deal is worthless. The brand itself is not worth much in my opinion.

They will also lose their US market share. Many of the people who drive Hummers in the US are right-wing, conservative people, who would not buy Hummers if it’s a “foreign” company.

By: CentristNaissance

CentristNaissance — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:36:07 +0000

I think it’s a terrible idea. I highly doubt this company has the resources to develop and support a money-losing brand. Not only that, Hummer vehicles are too large to be sold on Europe, Japan, or even China. After import taxes and gas-guzzeler taxes, those cars will cost in excess of $100,000. Far more than most Chinese can afford. Hummer will drag this company into almost sure bankruptcy.

By: ggg

ggg — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:47:40 +0000

yeah, but most of these netizens dont seem to know jack about the Chinese auto industry.