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Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 5.25.10

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First Drive: 2010 Ford SVT Raptor 6.2 is born to fly How do you make the best factory-built desert-pummeling pickup even better? A bit of retuning and another 101 hp. Engine power has increased 112% since 1980…

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Report: GM temporarily restarts Saturn Outlook, Hummer H3 production

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Filed under: SUV , Plants/Manufacturing , Crossover , GM , Hummer , Saturn , Off-Road Saturn Outlook – Click above for high-res image gallery Even though both the Saturn and Hummer brands are being phased out, General Motors has reportedly revived production of both the Outlook crossover and H3 SUV to meet consumer demands. Last month, GM assembled 1,037 Outlooks at its Lansing, Michigan facility, which is where the crossover’s Lamda platform stablemates ( Buick Enclave , Chevrolet Traverse and GMC Acadia ) are built. A spokesperson for GM states that production was reinstated to utilize the rest of the Saturn-specific material at the facility, and that the automaker will continue to assemble the Outlook for a few more weeks. Hummer, on the other hand, will produce 849 H3 and H3Ts to fulfill an order placed by a fleet company

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Hummer plant coming back online to fill 849-unit order?

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Filed under: SUV , Plants/Manufacturing , GM , Hummer , Off-Road Hummer H3T – Click above for high-res image gallery Unless a buyer for Hummer materializes in the next few months, General Motors will continue to wind-down its environmental group dart board. The slow death of Hummer has actually been in process since before The General announced that the sale of the brand to China’s Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery fell through , as the company’s Shreveport, LA facility stopped making H3 and H3T models in January. But while Shreveport has been down for two months, it looks like the plant could dust off the H3 tooling to fill one more big order. Brandcentric site Hummerguy.net is reporting that GM is ramping up production of the H3 from April 12 to May 13 to fill a 849 unit order.

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Emily Miller and Wendy Fisher gear up for the Rally Aïcha des Gazelles (w/video)

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Report: GM to idle Hummer production on Monday until China deal goes through

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Filed under: Sedan , Truck , Plants/Manufacturing , GM , Hummer 2009 Hummer H3T Alpha – Click above for high-res image gallery Lost in the hoopla surrounding General Motors’ attempted sale/wind-down of Saab and Ford’s situation with Volvo and Geely has been any word surrounding the sale of Hummer to China’s Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery. Whatever the state of the Hummer transaction, it appears The General is done waiting. The Detroit News reports that GM plans to halt Hummer production at its Shreveport, LA assembly plant on Monday until a sale of the brand is complete. The factory builds the H3 and H3T (models that account for about 25-percent of the plant’s overall production) and the General says it’s premature to speculate how much the facility’s 1,120 workers will be affected

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