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Old 26-10-2006, 09:17 PM   #1
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Default Holden to import H3 Hummer

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=155810

Title pretty much states above article....

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Old 26-10-2006, 09:21 PM   #2
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Hell ******* yes!!!!!
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Old 26-10-2006, 09:22 PM   #3
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Yeah saw that on the news, at the SMS.

Should be awesome.
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Old 26-10-2006, 09:27 PM   #4
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great, soccer mums.
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Old 26-10-2006, 09:51 PM   #5
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great, soccer mums.
Exactly. :( I'm not looking forward to this thing. Don't get me wrong, I love it. But I can see so many people using it as a city transporter and never ever doing anything else with it.
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Old 26-10-2006, 09:53 PM   #6
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Old 26-10-2006, 09:21 PM   #7
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First Holden to use more Petrol than Oil.

Sorry, old joke ..... but i will never get over it !

Nah i love Hummers
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Old 26-10-2006, 09:29 PM   #8
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another ****in 4wd to dodge on the roads

by the way the captiva looks like a cheap mock up of the territory, and i mean KOREAN CHEAP!
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Old 26-10-2006, 09:31 PM   #9
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It will last about as long as the GM Suburban did.

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Old 26-10-2006, 09:36 PM   #10
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I drooled over this thing hate to imagine what the H3 will do lol. Spotted this outside my work the other week. Hummer or Humvee-whatever it's bloody cool!

Who cares if it's fast or not, just drive over the boy racers. They can't drive fast if their car is crushed :P

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Old 26-10-2006, 10:56 PM   #11
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I drooled over this thing hate to imagine what the H3 will do lol. Spotted this outside my work the other week. Hummer or Humvee-whatever it's bloody cool!

Who cares if it's fast or not, just drive over the boy racers. They can't drive fast if their car is crushed :P

its forsale, and has a proximity alarm. parks at UC quite a bit
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Old 26-10-2006, 11:09 PM   #12
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I drooled over this thing hate to imagine what the H3 will do lol. Spotted this outside my work the other week. Hummer or Humvee-whatever it's bloody cool!

Who cares if it's fast or not, just drive over the boy racers. They can't drive fast if their car is crushed :P

That puppy there looks like a H1. Rare as chicken's teeth. The H3 is a baby compared to the H2 and H1.
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Old 26-10-2006, 11:13 PM   #13
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That puppy there looks like a H1. Rare as chicken's teeth.
And of all the places it was in Canberra. Just saw the H3 on the news and I want one but can't afford it :(
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Old 27-10-2006, 02:31 AM   #14
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It will last about as long as the GM Suburban did.

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You do realise the H2 is built on the same platform as the Suburban, right?
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Old 27-10-2006, 04:22 AM   #15
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I seen some weeks back no real outside shot a H2 at Holden. This little hot number came out and asked me what i thought of it, I said i don't like them shocker too park don't think it fits here. She said it's a HOS but what can we do the H3 is coming.


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Old 28-10-2006, 04:36 PM   #16
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Hummer's pedigree is ideally suited to Australia's diverse and challenging off-road environments," said Holden's executive director of sales and marketing Alan Batey.

Bully woolies. Anybody that knows anything about off road adventures will tell you that Hummers are too wide. Obviuosly Alan Batey knows nothing about off roading. :
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Old 26-10-2006, 09:50 PM   #17
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I Think Their AWESOME!
Its always so exciting when you
see a H2 driving around.
Now theres going to be H3's... Even better
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Old 28-10-2006, 02:59 PM   #18
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I Think Their AWESOME!
Its always so exciting when you
see a H2 driving around.
Now theres going to be H3's... Even better
It's exciting like most imported cars that aren't offered by the Australian market - thus said once Holden is supplying them in bouts to Australia they will become known and almost common, thus reducing the coolness appeal to the Hummer.
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Old 26-10-2006, 10:51 PM   #19
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Will they will be renaming it to the Holden Humptiva?


I hope to God they don't re-badge it and then Joe Mullet's begin to think Hummer's are as Australian as Meat Pies and VB's
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Old 26-10-2006, 10:58 PM   #20
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I thought hummer was a sewing machine.
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Old 26-10-2006, 11:09 PM   #21
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no thats holdens berlina (spelling?)
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Old 26-10-2006, 11:15 PM   #22
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Pretty sure theres another two H1s in Canberra, a yellow and red one.
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Old 26-10-2006, 11:19 PM   #23
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Pretty sure theres another two H1s in Canberra, a yellow and red one.
Well when my mate said he saw a Hummer, I thought he was making it up. But sure enough I saw that beast and had to get a shot. I'd never seen one before.

Hell I see more Ferrari's in comparisson. I've seen a brand spanker blue one twice in 2 days!
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Old 26-10-2006, 11:36 PM   #24
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Great... It's not going to drive over any ricers guys.. It's not even a real hummer for christs sake, it's built on a different platform to the real army ones!

Now.. would i rather ricers in their small cars being *******.. Or soccer mums and G-Unit ganster wannabe's driving around in a hummer whilst blocking my view and wasting more petrol than needed... Can't decide really, lol. Both bad to me!
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Old 26-10-2006, 11:49 PM   #25
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no wonder nobody sees them much they cost almost twice as much as a damb ferrari!!

{in the long run because of repairs and blody fuel!!!}
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Old 26-10-2006, 11:52 PM   #26
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i like everythin abt the H3 except the engine, isnt it only like 180kw and somethin like 320nm?
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Old 27-10-2006, 01:14 AM   #27
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why not just go one better and import an M1 tank,

I think hummers are a bit too much if you just drive about in the city as im sure they would annoy the absolute ***** out of others in smaller cars ie: everyone. but if you have a farm with canyons on it, and al queda squatters. go for it lol
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Old 27-10-2006, 07:31 AM   #28
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H3 - the answer to the question nobody asked...

Well at least it's not another Korean model!
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Old 27-10-2006, 08:18 AM   #29
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Don't know wether to love it or hate it. It's like deep fried coke - it tastes so good but it's just so so wrong. Ahh America...
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Old 27-10-2006, 08:30 AM   #30
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It will be interesting to see how this goes.

Its Shorter than a Territory and has a smaller turning circle.

Thank god they aren't rebadging it.

Wonder if there will be any addition hummer models or if the H3 is it?
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