Most reports suggest it is purely a business decision... paying to recertify an H2 that sells over 20,000 units per year is an easy decision because the costs can be recovered, but paying to recertify an H1 that sells less than 300 per year doesn't make good business sense for GM.
I do expect they will need a new flagship truck now, though - so an H2 alpha or something of the sort would make sense. Either that, or an altogether new flagship vehicle.
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Originally Posted by 31_bandits
it just seems so silly. they just re-designed to the Alpha (duramax, etc., so on), so they just invested some $$$ and continuing production on a vehicle that they don't spend a dime marketing and which is mostly produced on a line that already exists for another purpose, and which is sold at perhaps the most preposterous markup in the truck world... can't possibly lose them all that much, or perhaps one could say that you couldn't possibly fail to make some money on the H1 at those prices...
So there has to be another reason. The H2 is the star of most of the off-roading personal movies you see here and there, alot of H2 owners on this forum don't seem to think they're losing much of anything to the H1 drivers, so maybe they thought taht the ongoing existence of the H1 was detracting from the H2 being a "real hummer".
theory 2: social/environmental image thing. lets remove the "worst one" to bolster our image. the irony of that being behind this would be that its the H2 that's the poster-boy for enviro's everywhere, not the H1.
Theory 3: i need a shower and can't come up with additional theories at this time.
So i suspect the logic was somethign along the lines of my first theory above...? Pave the way for the H2 to be the king of trucks, maybe for an "H2 alpha".
what would it take? air susp front and rear (more clearance, even better ride), front lockers, make the interior world class, maybe offer the diesel as an option, shave some pounds where this is feasible & give it a five-speed auto and...
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