Thats why i say the looks get a pass today. Big and brash luxury is the way of the truck/suv market right now, and the H2 was the progenitor of it all.
I remember sitting in a H2 and grabbing the shifter, it was loose and the housing was no longer connected to the floor. It felt so cheap and nasty like something from AliExpress. I still love them 😅
I own a 2003 H2. They are old enough to need some tlc: airbag conversion, random electrical gremlins, and age related issues. The 6.0l is super reliable. H2s are ridiculous, awesome, and attract people wherever you drive. The slogan is still accurate - like nothing else.
I have two relatives who owned H2 Hummers in the past, but they both diverged this time, with one getting the Hummer EV and the other going for the Cyberstuck. Owners of the H2 will always gravitate toward the dumbest and most obnoxiously large vehicles they could find.
@@johnjones393 Don't care about the Cybertruck being fast. It's the worst pickup ever made. It looks like a damn alien vehicle. It could have been designed by someone from Mars or by children for all I care.
I really love the H2. Other people hate them but their prices on the used market don’t seem to reflect the hate. I’d love to find a low mileage clean one
@@ozgurmehmet4258 Except its almost completely unrelated to the H1 except in name. The H1 isnt exactly a useful vehicle either, unless you're following a tank through a minefield. In fact you could argue its a lot less useful than the H2 being slower, less comfortable, seating less and actually having less storage space and payload/towing capacity. Yes, the H2 actually has a higher towing rating and payload capacity than the H1, benefits of the H2 being based on the GM SUV platform of the era, over a decade after the H1 hit the market. H3 is much like the 4 door Jeep of today, and actually compares pretty favorably with it in all aspects, same with the H3T and the Jeep Gladiator. Calling one "Worse" because its not an H1, or a smaller alternative to the H2, is the most backwards way of thinking about these trucks.
@ozgurmehmet4258 the h3 is more capable than the H2 offroad, it had 4:56 gears a 4:1 transfer case and lockers front and rear, so I wouldn't call it worse by any means
Fun fact GM sold those truck new in Europe. Yes we had Hummer dealerships here. I don't know how much they sell but i remember seeing one Hummer showroom in Slovakia when i was a kid. My friend had euro spec hummer h3 like 4y ago, it was OK 4x4 i guess. It was runing on LPG, so running cost where low but selling that thing was pain. They have even biger stigma here then in US
John said it brakes well; then goes on to describe how it did not brake well at all. Stopping distance is too long, and there is fade. And that's without a load or a trailer
Man, when I was a dealership porter, we had a used H2 SUV on the lot that I got to drive after washing it up. Well, it was left in my bay to wash up but I took it upon myself to take it out for a spin in the snowy parking lot. I promise I didn’t do anything crazy, I merely drove it out on the maybe quarter-inch to an inch of fresh snow and drove it around. First turn I’m a good 100 feet from a fence and light pole going like 5-10 mph, so I brake and start turning leisurely… ABS kicks in… I turn the wheel, truck still goes dead straight at the same speed. I’m standing upright on the damn brake pedal, nothing but ABS feedback, no stopping or steering. Now I’m B-lined for the concrete light pole, I’m just bracing for impact at this point then suddenly the H2 comes to a halt… the base of the pole is out of my view beyond the hood. I get out and look cause I just knew I had to have hit. I kid you not… less than 1 inch from the concrete pole base, no contact. I reversed it, drove it straight back in the building and NEVER did that again! When it sold I was tasked to take it to the local gas station to fill it up, I will say, that was kinda cool, I liked the sound of the engine when I went to pass someone. Feels absolutely massive to drive.
Love all the guys that call this a tahoe with a lift kit. Makes it easy to spot guys that know nothing about cars. You could not get a tahoe with the 6.0, an 8 lug 1 ton aam rear axle, an e locker, front differential is completely different size and housing, or 4.10 gears just to name a few key differences......but bros are happy to buy a new trd pro tundra that dosent even have front recovery hooks and is in fact just a hyped up base model truck.
Those same people talk crap about the H3 when they came with 4:56 gears, a 4:1 transfer case, lockers front and rear and a half ton rear axle on a midsized truck.
I have 3 H2's suv's. I daily drive one. Fuel isn't any different than most 3/4 ton trucks, they sell a lot of those, yet no one even asks what their fuel economy is. They only sold about 150k H2's vs 168k Ford Excursions which were bigger.
@n3d.studio Who buys a hummer or excursion for fuel economy?? It's quite obvious a 7k lb truck is not gonna get 40mpg...who cares...the truck was a tool...it had purpose. Show me 1 vehicle that can tow 10k lbs and get wonderful mpg. Ppl who buy these types of truck typically can afford fuel for it or usually have a second smaller vehicle. Fuel economy doesn't matter...especially if it's only being driven 4 or 5 days a month
@@AaronJones-yt4vd right, but watch the comments here. Nothing but how the fuel economy is poor yet the most sold vehicle in US is a truck. But oh yeah hummer which didn't sell that many are so bad for the environment and that poor mpg. In truck country. Lol.
@@bengarcia1091the duramax never came with a semifloating rear axle like the h2 has, the duramax used the AAM 11.5 but the H2 used the AAM 9.5. Still a decent axle compared to the 10bolt that came in most GM suvs
@hunterharrell7491 you are correct for sure! The point still stands that's a very tough axle compared to a regular half ton axle they put in all the Tahoes. I ran an h2 on 37s for 8 years and off roaded the hell out of it and never broke so much as a cv axle let alone a rear axle shaft.
Fair enough. I was trying to steer towards the recession and dumb people getting mad at Hummer owners like they had something to do with the high gas prices.
Im convinced if gm would have called this something other than a hummer it would have done better and not gotten the hate. people just love to hate on the hummer name.
I've read that the H2 was built on platforms that GM already had. I think that the H2 is on the Tahoe platform and the H3 is on the canyon/Colorado platform
A customer who tried to trade in this H2 two months after he bought new from a GMC dealer and our boss offered him $25k. The customer got mad but returned two days later and accepted the offer. He told me the GMC dealer offered him for $22k even worse than a Toyota dealer. This truck makes lots of people in financial crisis that for sure. Up side down is guaranteed. 😂
At the time, I thought this & the regular H2 were the most ridiculous vehicles in the world, & still do. It's almost as if GM/Hummer were parodying Americans' love for SUV's & trucks, not embracing it.
So, these had a whopping 6700lbs towing capacity. During that same time, the new Frontier has debuted and came with 6500lbs, and was $20,000 cheaper, and more reliable. Its no wonder this brand died. They were lost as to what to do with it once they got past its initial fame phase. The later H3 was an even bigger disappointment.
@@LrulestheworldM8 the 6.0 and the 4 speed automatic in these was extremely reliable! The towing I would suspect comes from 4 gears vs 8 or 10 that we have become used to now. That 6.0 is one of the most reliable v8s ever made and will outlast any new junk with a turbo.
The H3 was one of the most capable factory vehicles you could get at the time, they came with 33s front and rear lockers, 4.56 gears, and a 4:1 transfer case.
@@hunterharrell7491 that was only the h3 alpha that had all that. Not many of those were made at all. Regular h3 didn't not have fully locking diffs but your point still stands that was a very capable rig.
@bengarcia1091 the Adventure model had the lockers, they were pretty common the only thing the alpha added was the 5.3 V8 which weren't as common. You could still get the I-5 with the offroad goodies
@@ericschultz1073 you could not get a tahoe with the 6.0 or an 8 lug aam rear axle (same a duramax at the time) you could not get an e locker on the Tahoe the list goes on. People that don't know anything about cars love to repeat that sound bite you just said......
To me, it doesn’t look any more ridiculous than the new Bronco Raptor.
Thats why i say the looks get a pass today. Big and brash luxury is the way of the truck/suv market right now, and the H2 was the progenitor of it all.
Or the Cyber Truck.
@@cindysue5474 The Hummer is box in wheels
@@cindysue5474 Lol. The cyber truck is trash. Dont kid yourself
"Manly gear shifter" John cracks me up 😂
After all these years, it's grown on me
I love how back in the day these looked tough and by today's standards they're cutesy, toy car looking things.
If having 4wd is cutesy vs bs awd, then pass the blush brush.
I feel the opposite. I thought they looked very weak and toyish. Compared to the chrome longhorn/loredo/whatever these days these appear mild
Did u just refer to a car as being....cutesy? 😂
These never looked tough
Sorry but these never looked tough. Always looked fragile and easily breakable.
I’ve owned one for years. One of the best vehicles ever made. I actually use mine for work and offroading.
2:21 John: At the track, however, the H2 showed its heft! LOL
Proper gearing would make it feel lighter.
The H2 in this video is the only H2 that ever actually went off road
What about the other one following it? Just saying.
all went off road
I remember sitting in a H2 and grabbing the shifter, it was loose and the housing was no longer connected to the floor. It felt so cheap and nasty like something from AliExpress. I still love them 😅
I consider the H2 to be the peak of post-9/11 patriotism.
Merica!!!
Agreed! Perched perfectly between 9/11 and the 2008 global recession!
Ahh yes, nothing like superficial patriotism.
I own a 2003 H2. They are old enough to need some tlc: airbag conversion, random electrical gremlins, and age related issues. The 6.0l is super reliable. H2s are ridiculous, awesome, and attract people wherever you drive. The slogan is still accurate - like nothing else.
It's goofy looking for sure, but it still looks better than the Cyberstuck!
Agreed, but at least the cyber truck is fast. It's ugly but fast. The H2 is both ugly and slower than molasses.
I have two relatives who owned H2 Hummers in the past, but they both diverged this time, with one getting the Hummer EV and the other going for the Cyberstuck.
Owners of the H2 will always gravitate toward the dumbest and most obnoxiously large vehicles they could find.
@@johnjones393 Don't care about the Cybertruck being fast. It's the worst pickup ever made. It looks like a damn alien vehicle. It could have been designed by someone from Mars or by children for all I care.
I don’t know why the H2 gets so much hate, I think it looks cool though, like a mini tank
Now this is a badass truck back then. It even had a Midgate.
I really love the H2. Other people hate them but their prices on the used market don’t seem to reflect the hate. I’d love to find a low mileage clean one
Main reason of hate is it's absolute down grade compre to H1
H2 less useful and had worse off road capability
H3 is even worse
@@ozgurmehmet4258 Except its almost completely unrelated to the H1 except in name.
The H1 isnt exactly a useful vehicle either, unless you're following a tank through a minefield. In fact you could argue its a lot less useful than the H2 being slower, less comfortable, seating less and actually having less storage space and payload/towing capacity. Yes, the H2 actually has a higher towing rating and payload capacity than the H1, benefits of the H2 being based on the GM SUV platform of the era, over a decade after the H1 hit the market.
H3 is much like the 4 door Jeep of today, and actually compares pretty favorably with it in all aspects, same with the H3T and the Jeep Gladiator.
Calling one "Worse" because its not an H1, or a smaller alternative to the H2, is the most backwards way of thinking about these trucks.
@ozgurmehmet4258 I think a major reason why the H2 is hated is because of its poor build quality, which was resolved with the H3.
I found my 2007 3 years ago with less than 100k miles
@ozgurmehmet4258 the h3 is more capable than the H2 offroad, it had 4:56 gears a 4:1 transfer case and lockers front and rear, so I wouldn't call it worse by any means
Interesting that John didn't share the mpg.
I'm sure GM didn't want to provide that stat 😅
9-13 mpg
I get 15-16mpg on interstate but u don't buy a hummer for fuel mileage
@@coltonmessex2877 Exactly! No one bought a Hummer or any SUV for fuel economy.
I still see these things on the road. Some people absolutely love them. Go figure.
Fun fact GM sold those truck new in Europe. Yes we had Hummer dealerships here. I don't know how much they sell but i remember seeing one Hummer showroom in Slovakia when i was a kid. My friend had euro spec hummer h3 like 4y ago, it was OK 4x4 i guess. It was runing on LPG, so running cost where low but selling that thing was pain. They have even biger stigma here then in US
Now THIS is a Hummer!
The Duramax 6.6 would have been such a cool option. Probably a very expensive one Im sure.
Sut means nipple in Polish
John said it brakes well; then goes on to describe how it did not brake well at all. Stopping distance is too long, and there is fade. And that's without a load or a trailer
Pra-Bah-Blee. Classic John Davis.
I would love to have one of these as like a fifth vehicle. It's just a hilarious, oversized Tonka truck.
the thing i mostly hated about these things were the msrp its quality and space for the rest they were basically a tahoe a real good platform
absolute beast, these were absolutely crushing it in the mall parking lot !!😂
Man, when I was a dealership porter, we had a used H2 SUV on the lot that I got to drive after washing it up. Well, it was left in my bay to wash up but I took it upon myself to take it out for a spin in the snowy parking lot. I promise I didn’t do anything crazy, I merely drove it out on the maybe quarter-inch to an inch of fresh snow and drove it around.
First turn I’m a good 100 feet from a fence and light pole going like 5-10 mph, so I brake and start turning leisurely… ABS kicks in… I turn the wheel, truck still goes dead straight at the same speed. I’m standing upright on the damn brake pedal, nothing but ABS feedback, no stopping or steering. Now I’m B-lined for the concrete light pole, I’m just bracing for impact at this point then suddenly the H2 comes to a halt… the base of the pole is out of my view beyond the hood. I get out and look cause I just knew I had to have hit. I kid you not… less than 1 inch from the concrete pole base, no contact. I reversed it, drove it straight back in the building and NEVER did that again!
When it sold I was tasked to take it to the local gas station to fill it up, I will say, that was kinda cool, I liked the sound of the engine when I went to pass someone. Feels absolutely massive to drive.
Nice truck!
Love all the guys that call this a tahoe with a lift kit. Makes it easy to spot guys that know nothing about cars. You could not get a tahoe with the 6.0, an 8 lug 1 ton aam rear axle, an e locker, front differential is completely different size and housing, or 4.10 gears just to name a few key differences......but bros are happy to buy a new trd pro tundra that dosent even have front recovery hooks and is in fact just a hyped up base model truck.
Those same people talk crap about the H3 when they came with 4:56 gears, a 4:1 transfer case, lockers front and rear and a half ton rear axle on a midsized truck.
Love me some gmt800
nice tough truck.
I have 3 H2's suv's. I daily drive one. Fuel isn't any different than most 3/4 ton trucks, they sell a lot of those, yet no one even asks what their fuel economy is. They only sold about 150k H2's vs 168k Ford Excursions which were bigger.
The excursion was bigger and much more practical can be had with a diesel and towed nearly twice as much
@@AaronJones-yt4vd bigger, used even more fuel, yet no one mentions fuel consumption on those. diesel was more money and impossible to find now.
Excursions were ridiculous as well.
@n3d.studio Who buys a hummer or excursion for fuel economy?? It's quite obvious a 7k lb truck is not gonna get 40mpg...who cares...the truck was a tool...it had purpose. Show me 1 vehicle that can tow 10k lbs and get wonderful mpg. Ppl who buy these types of truck typically can afford fuel for it or usually have a second smaller vehicle. Fuel economy doesn't matter...especially if it's only being driven 4 or 5 days a month
@@AaronJones-yt4vd right, but watch the comments here. Nothing but how the fuel economy is poor yet the most sold vehicle in US is a truck. But oh yeah hummer which didn't sell that many are so bad for the environment and that poor mpg. In truck country. Lol.
I still have since new it was a fun drive but now my son drive it to high school everyday
Serious question: is the bed on the Baja bigger than this?
All I remember was hearing about the axles or wheels snapping off on these H2s.
The rear axle is an 8 lug aam 14 bolt axle, extremely tough. The front is weaker though.
It's the stock tie rods are weak they are same from a 2500 hd not meant for the 35s tire on the h2 so they snap
@@bengarcia1091the duramax never came with a semifloating rear axle like the h2 has, the duramax used the AAM 11.5 but the H2 used the AAM 9.5. Still a decent axle compared to the 10bolt that came in most GM suvs
@hunterharrell7491 you are correct for sure! The point still stands that's a very tough axle compared to a regular half ton axle they put in all the Tahoes. I ran an h2 on 37s for 8 years and off roaded the hell out of it and never broke so much as a cv axle let alone a rear axle shaft.
I wish GM would add the roll down back window with the midgate to the GM trucks.
Typical GM timing… terribly thirsty, just in time for the recession
And all the misdirected hate these got.
@@rossw5576Eh, the hate was well deserved. GM incompetence was on full display with the H2.
Fair enough. I was trying to steer towards the recession and dumb people getting mad at Hummer owners like they had something to do with the high gas prices.
I always forget just how slow these old vehicles were. Yikes
This was ahead of its time. Now, all pickup trucks have vestigial beds with oversized cabs. I think evolution is going backwards.
Im convinced if gm would have called this something other than a hummer it would have done better and not gotten the hate. people just love to hate on the hummer name.
Only thing is has in common to the Tahoe is the GM name
I've read that the H2 was built on platforms that GM already had. I think that the H2 is on the Tahoe platform and the H3 is on the canyon/Colorado platform
@ H2 is built on the Silverado 3/4 ton Rear frame, Silverado 1/2 ton Front end with an H2 original mid frame to connect them.
@@ottopilot7205
The front section is 3/4 ton ‘Burb, the middle is HD truck, and the rear is Tahoe.
@@ottopilot7205front is a fully boxed 3/4 ton frame shortened in length in spots but frame behind rear doors is smaller but still fully boxed
These always looked like toys then and now.
I always thought these were ridiculous
Any more ridiculous than the EV pickups you can buy today? I think the current truck market makes the H2 now firmly ahead of its time.
Swap in an A10 auto or zf 8 speed...with more power it could be awesome
That’s not same hummer that’s a the truck stop. We like the real one !
These still fetch a pretty penny 🪙
These vehicles were lemons 😂
Source?
Hey, technically crawling the mall parking lot counts as "off-road".
The scariest thing about these cars is people who say they’re nostalgic for them.
People, these were garbage then. And garbage now.
These where $80k then, and still fetch a pretty penny
Even though they had some weak points, they are still a great platform to build a very capable vehicle
13 city 15-18 mpg 🤔
Reminder that 4x4 trucks even a decade later were still making this same sort of fuel economy.
MPG alone is enough to not buy one
Trx and raptor r get worse mileage. Fun fact the Toyota sequia gets the same..... but just listen to a media sound bite and repeat it.
These are classic GM… absolute junk! 😂
The Chevy Tahoe on which this was based was actually really good
Canadian Gaymer? Oh you must be the perfect person to talk about a hummer
It's the GMT800. It's actually extremely reliable lol... Although the transmission is a weak point
@@greathey1234GMT800 is the goated gm truck platform...these Hummers are meh tho
@samholdsworth420 It's not really reliable then if the transmission is weak. 🙄
Oh boy
😂
A customer who tried to trade in this H2 two months after he bought new from a GMC dealer and our boss offered him $25k. The customer got mad but returned two days later and accepted the offer. He told me the GMC dealer offered him for $22k even worse than a Toyota dealer. This truck makes lots of people in financial crisis that for sure. Up side down is guaranteed. 😂
😂😂😂
Really should have made a sport luxury utilty truck or😂
I have always wanted a Hummer. I would L.S. swap one anyday, if I could afford to.
The H2 and H3 Alpha came with LS engines from the factory...
Sport Large Utility Truck
The official vehicle of divorced Pizza Hut owners
At the time, I thought this & the regular H2 were the most ridiculous vehicles in the world, & still do. It's almost as if GM/Hummer were parodying Americans' love for SUV's & trucks, not embracing it.
So, these had a whopping 6700lbs towing capacity. During that same time, the new Frontier has debuted and came with 6500lbs, and was $20,000 cheaper, and more reliable. Its no wonder this brand died. They were lost as to what to do with it once they got past its initial fame phase. The later H3 was an even bigger disappointment.
@@LrulestheworldM8 the 6.0 and the 4 speed automatic in these was extremely reliable! The towing I would suspect comes from 4 gears vs 8 or 10 that we have become used to now. That 6.0 is one of the most reliable v8s ever made and will outlast any new junk with a turbo.
The H3 was one of the most capable factory vehicles you could get at the time, they came with 33s front and rear lockers, 4.56 gears, and a 4:1 transfer case.
@@hunterharrell7491 that was only the h3 alpha that had all that. Not many of those were made at all. Regular h3 didn't not have fully locking diffs but your point still stands that was a very capable rig.
@bengarcia1091 the Adventure model had the lockers, they were pretty common the only thing the alpha added was the 5.3 V8 which weren't as common. You could still get the I-5 with the offroad goodies
Hummer H3 (petrol) + GMC Yukon (petrol) = GMC Hummer (electric)
Loved it back then...love it more now. The current one is garbage.
Back when GM was good brand
Looks heavy
Chevy Tahoe. That’s what this it is with a lift kit and a different body.
And the special electronic 4wd bits and pieces, and redesigned suspension, that were H2 exclusive.
No it’s not. They don’t share a front suspension or even the same wheelbase to start with.
@@ericschultz1073 you could not get a tahoe with the 6.0 or an 8 lug aam rear axle (same a duramax at the time) you could not get an e locker on the Tahoe the list goes on. People that don't know anything about cars love to repeat that sound bite you just said......
Mechanically it's a parts bin GM truck mashup with only a handful of Hummer specific parts. A lot of the interior is parts bin too.
*Jeep Gladiator*
Why have a CD player, every song is just Lick It Up.
That's a lot of howevers
“Manly gearshift” puh-lease 🙄
Those center consoles were the creakiest things even when new lol
Useless ultra heavy and extra big vehicle.
H2 is the best suv in the world
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Junk
A real man's truck! This was a time when America gave the middle finger to all environmentalists around the world!
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