With its apparent HUMMER architecture and a compact, go-anywhere active ethic, the HUMMER HX abstraction challenges the bureaucracy of the trail. HUMMER displayed the nimble, reconfigurable off-roader at the 2008 North American International Auto Show.
More bunched than a HUMMER H3 - 81 inches (2,057 mm) wide, with a 103-inch wheelbase (2,616-mm) - the HX abstraction is an open-air, two-door off-road agent that packs the off-road accuracy for which HUMMER has become legendary, forth with an calmly convertible anatomy that acclimates to assorted aisle conditions, burden needs or commuter whims. Its architecture is based on the account developed by a leash of adolescent designers who are new to the HUMMER studio.
"The HX is HUMMER's eyes of an agile, trail-ready, amphitheater agent that fits the lifestyles of anybody who needs or wants to drive off road," said Martin Walsh, HUMMER accepted manager. "Of course, it carries aberrant off-road adequacy and the characteristic administration for which all HUMMERs are known."
The HX offers an amphitheater active acquaintance via a brace of disposable roof panels aloft the disciplinarian and advanced passenger, and a modular, disposable rear roof assembly. With the roof panels and roof accumulation removed, the HX is adapted into a accurate convertible.
Easy abatement of the roof panels and rear-roof accumulation enables quick about-face from a bankrupt agent to an accessible one. The HX additionally was advised with several roof assemblies, acceptance this able agent to be configured as an SUT (with the roof accumulation removed), a beautiful slant-back or a traditional, wagon-like architecture that offers a bit added burden space.
The HX was apparent with a slant-back configuration, cutting a desert-inspired matte olive acrylic scheme, at the North American International Auto Show. Added convertible appearance include:
* Disposable doors - calmly disposable pins in the apparent hinges acquiesce the doors to be removed bound - an accepted affection of abounding austere off-roaders
* Disposable fender flares - absorbed with quarter-turn quick-release fasteners, the blended fender flares can be bound removed for added trail/rock clearance, or if the blaze is damaged during off-road active
"The modular architecture of the roof and disposable anatomy panels mark an change of HUMMER's architecture aesthetic," said Carl Zipfel, administrator of design. "These appearance authenticate a added compassionate of enthusiast desires back it comes to off-road active - and the slant-back architecture gives the HX a attending all its own."
