![]() Now, hurtling toward highway speed feels like it takes just a week instead of a month. Getting to 60 mph takes 15.2 seconds, an improvement from 18.1 in the gasoline-powered Hummer and 21.7 in the old 6.2-liter diesel. The engine starts quickly (after a 10-second pause spent waiting for the glow plugs to warm the prechambers) but clatters like a big rig. The turbocharger resides in the valley at the rear of the engine, which allows this turbo-diesel to fit between the Hummer's narrow frame rails, unlike those diesels with side-mounted turbos. The 5.7-liter gas engine has been dropped. A 170-horsepower, 290-pound-foot, 6.5-liter normally aspirated diesel engine is standard. It makes 195 horsepower at its 3400-rpm redline and 430 pound-feet of torque at 1800 rpm. ![]() Must-have options-like central tire inflation and deflation, a winch, and driveline skid plating-can add up quickly, as our $84,502 sticker attests.Ī new 6.5-liter turbo-diesel engine adapted from those that power GM's new full-size vans has been added to the options list at a cost of $4523. The basic two-passenger model is yours for as little as $52,597. The most popular model is the wagon, which starts at $67,111. Once again, our test vehicle was a four-passenger hardtop model priced at $63,827 to start (that's up from $44,000 in 1992). The first two Hummers we tested ( C/D, July 1992 and June 1995) were such unpleasant and unwieldy conveyances on pavement that we naturally assumed they would be sold primarily to folks who intended to use them to roam their 1000-acre estates or go exploring for oil or perhaps to invade weak neighboring counties. Of course, we're talking about AM General's Hummer, the vehicular star of the Gulf War, roughly 7000 of which have now been sold wearing civilian colors. No, this social climber climbed right off the battlefield, hosed off, changed into civvies, and rolled onto Rodeo Drive. Nor does it wear a haughty German or Japanese nameplate. This four-wheel-drive vehicle was not conceived as a shooting brake for swells on safari (although plenty of outgoing ordnance has been fired off its flanks). It's an ugly, uncultured, loud, smelly brute utterly lacking in social graces. From the June 1997 issue of Car and Driver.ĭon't look now, but the wood-and-leather-lined halls of luxury sport-ute-dom have been invaded by a ruffian.
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