Nobody Seems To Want To Buy Hummer [Industry News]

An Indian car company, A Chinese car company and a Russian car company walk into a bar. Bartender says "We're having a special on Hummer, you interested?" They all laugh. Depressing news this week for GM if the company is serious about offloading Hummer as three automakers from three rapidly expanding car markets deny that they're at all interested in the brand. The comments from the companies range from a simple denial to a dig at Hummer itself. The lightest rebuff came last Thursday from Russian Machines, owned by allegedly mobbed-up Oleg Deripaska, which merely denied they were doing anything in an official capacity: "Russian Machines neither received any proposals to consider acquisition of the Hummer assets, nor is strategically interested in such a deal" China's Changfeng merely points out the obvious: "The Hummer is... [read full story]