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newVideoPlayer("H3Tsnow.flv", 463, 387,""); Now that Truck Nuts are facing potential legislative banning, you're gonna need a new way to showcase your truck's high-testosterone factor. And the General has just the solution: the Hummer H3T . Nothing quite like scampering playfully through a snowy meadow to confirm your possession of hulking cojones. Note the inclusion of the badass butch-signifying bike in the bed, even though the bed is too short to accommodate all that badassness without dropping the tailgate.
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What an exciting day it is for fans of the Hummer brand, with the 2009 Hummer H3T embargo catastrafuck giving the truck all sorts of play on the internet. Since bringing you the first Truck Trend H3T scans , we've gotten a lot more information thanks to PickupTrucks.com , which had the first H3T post up on the web . What do we know about the new H3T? It's the same Colorado/H3 architecture but built to accommodate both the crew cab and the five-foot-long bed. There will be four versions offered, including the base version with the Vortec 3.7-liter inline-five (245 hp/242 lb.-ft.) and the H3T Alpha, which comes with the 5.3L small-block V8 (300 hp/320 lb.-ft.). Customers are going to have a choice of either a heavy-duty handling and trailering suspension or an off-road version that comes with 33-inch tires. Bizarre notions of masculinity not standard on this model as Hummer predicts customers will themselves supply that. Full press release and photos below. galleryPost('09HummerH3T'...
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If you haven't been following along at home, folks, the nice people at Truck Trend (owned by our good friends at Motor Trend ) somehow managed to break the Hummer H3T today , about a week early. How could this happen? Motor Trend , as has been explained to us, doesn't purposefully break embargoes, and they get testy when you suggest that they do . As we've explained about media embargoes before , automakers like press, and when they want their cars in certain publications they send "embargoed" information to publishers early to accommodate the supposed lead time the print media needs to rewrite press releases and layout photos. Therefore, Truck Trend has had the information on the 2009 Hummer H3T for a little while. But they claim as long as they don't publish it online, they're not breaking an embargo until it goes to print. But then they also claim if the printing date is in line with the embargo date than all should be well. Fair enough -- a couple of hours...
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Chicago's a truck show -- always has been. And we've been told we should expect some seriously fun product, both in concept and in production from the General in two weeks at the Chicago Auto Show. We've already told you we now expect the GMC pickup concept truck to be there and now, according to the embargo-breaking pointer-outers at HummerGuy , it'll be comig to Chicago too. In fact, they've even got the shots to prove it -- taken directly from the pages of an early-to-the-stands issue of TruckTrend . Yeah, isn't this a fun game we all play? Jeesh. When will these automakers ever learn not to play the silly embargo game? Anyway, we digress -- the 2009 H3T is a Hummer H3 with a 4-feet wide by 4½-feet long bed in the back with accessories like a small lunchbox/toolbox and all sorts of lockable storage containers. Under the hood, expect to see the new 295+horsepower 5.3-liter V8 first shown in the H3 Alpha, as well a 242-horsepower 3.7-liter I5 powerplant. When last...
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