The very first thing you need to know is that a Hummer is not a Humvee. A Hummer is the street-legal consumer version of the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) used by the military in ...

Military surplus Humvees are legally available to civilians for $10,000-$30,000 through GovPlanet auctions, but getting one street-legal involves navigating bureaucratic warfare that makes actual ...

Many people use Humvee and Hummer interchangeably, but the story behind the names tells us why these famous off-roaders ...

Back in the dog days of the financial crisis, as the U.S. government pledged tens of billions of your tax dollars to try (and fail) to keep General Motors out of bankruptcy, the automaker acquired a ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Just like the World War II-era jeep, the 4-ton Humvee – first introduced in the 1980s – has become an icon. There are 300,000 Humvees operated by the U.S. military ...