First Drive Review
You know, it won't always be this way. Temperatures won't remain this mild. The roads won't remain this open. And the CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) regulations won't always regard three-plus-ton off-roaders as commercial vehicles. Indeed, just because it's always been, don't assume that the era of bloated, excessive, hedonistically wasteful transportative devices will always be.
Scared yet? Hummer isn't. And, honestly, neither are we. But we all know that it won't always be this way. And so we cherish-while we have it-the over-the-top Hummer H2, which GM has just blessed with a much nicer interior and- oh yeah-even more power for 2008. Did someone say CAFE? Meet ya there! We love French food.
Hummer Strength for the Hummer Flagship.
The biggest and most welcome news for 2008, especially to anyone that's driven the pokey, 325-hp 2003-2007 H2 is the installation of GM's prodigious 6.2-liter V-8, which has proven itself capable of adding a heaping spoonful of entertainment to the similarly decadent Cadillac Escalade and GMC Sierra Denali. In the H2, now Hummer's baddest dog since the H1 is in retirement, it is tuned to deliver 393 horsepower, 10 fewer than in the others due to exhaust packaging constraints. That's still an impressive 68 more than the 2007 model's 6.0-liter V-8. Similarly, torque rises from 365 to 415 at 4400 rpm.
