It had 9.1 inches of ground clearance and with available 33-inch off-road tires, the H3 had truly awesome off-roadability. Where the H3 truly lived up to its reputation was off-road. The bulky HUMMER was only six and a half inches narrower than the bigger H2, but it was nearly 17 inches shorter, which showed in its meager interior space. Fuel economy of 20 mpg highway clearly outpaced the H2’s 11 mpg. Hauling around the 4700-lb H3 proved more than the 3.5-liter engine could comfortably hustle: 0-60 mph times were pegged at 10.3 seconds. It shared their lackluster powertrain-a dated in-line five-cylinder engine with 220 horsepower and 225 pound-feet of torque. It was spun from the architecture that founded GM's small pickups, the Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon. Underneath, though, the H3 was no military offshoot like the H1, not a full-size beast like the H2. It certainly looked the part, with HUMMER's brazen grille (it had been part of a lawsuit with Chrysler's Jeep brand-both had common roots and a seven-bar front end) and squared-off fenders. Sales were slumping-but the H3 was seen as the right vehicle, at the right time. Sold from 2005 to 2010, the H3 arrived in HUMMER's Quonset-hut showrooms just as war-weary Americans were turning away from the H2 and the brand. That addition became reality in 2005, when the HUMMER H3 joined the fledgling lineup. It struck a nerve and a vein with the original H2, but had always envisioned adding smaller HUMMER vehicles to the brand.
GM's HUMMER brand had launched with lots of fanfare-and controversy-in the early years of this century.
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