If you could talk to GM....

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I heard GM was thinking of changing the interior by eliminating the raised air vents in the dash. IMO, that would be a Step in the Tahoe direction. The interior is different than anything else on the market and changing it to a smooth dash will make it look too much like everything else out there. Offer an option that doesn't have the carpet and leather seats. Some folks want an easy to wash interior.

This is an off road line of vehicles. Keep the theme. CTIS would be a good option to offer. Can you imaging the toys people could put on their rigs with an airtank to run them? That would be good for people that run on the Street and Off Road alike. The H2 especially has the aftermarket accessories attention. If it has problems, fix them. One good place to start is the navigation system. Right now if you use it to navigate, you don't have a CD player. Program it with topographical data, that can be used when navigating remote areas. These trucks aren't just used for playing off road or commuting. Thousands of folks use them for Hunting, camping, Fishing and riding Mtn bikes and motorcycles, and even for riding/finding cattle and getting to the damned remote areas they can find.

Make a decent place to put wires through the firewall for adding aftermarket components like lights and horns and the like.

If Hummer wants to build a new line of more affordable vehicles, then make a good platform to start from, and let people make their rig what they want it to be. Hummer started out as a military vehicle, and GM should not stray too far from that theme. As Steve R said earlier, the H1 was designed for military uses, but it wasn't made to go down the tight trail of a Jeep. It is my argument, that if they had made the HUMVEE first, Jeeps would be complaining that the trails are to wide. Keep on truckin, and the trails will widen out.

I don't want to be driving down the road three years from now, and say is that a Tahoe, Yukon, or Hummer? Keep it square.