The Hummer H1 was never a beautiful vehicle. Derived from the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV, or Humvee) the military so successfully used in a number of wars, it looked like a ...

In a world increasingly concerned with miles-per-gallon and carbon neutrality, the first-generation Hummer H1 stands out like a barrel of burning petroleum. Offered as the civvy-spec variant of the AM ...

Military vehicles are just plain cool. It’s no surprise that they find their way into civilian life through government auctions, historical collectors and pop culture references. Aside from the ...

In June 1940, the United States Army needed a 1/4-ton "light reconnaissance vehicle." Of the 135 automakers they asked to submit bids, only three took them up on the offer (Bantam, Willys, and Ford), ...

General Motors' Hummer has a rocky 30-year history. The civilian version of the SUV was adapted from the military transport vehicles used in the Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s and popularized by ...

The AM General HMMWV, otherwise known as the Humvee, has served the United States military well for roughly 40 years now. The thing is, it’s awfully slow and not all that fuel-efficient. Reliability ...