DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Army is assuring people that General Motors' deal to sell its Hummer brand to a Chinese company has nothing to do with the military version of the rugged vehicle.
Officials say people have called the Pentagon, Capitol Hill and the company that makes the military vehicles, AM General, asking if the rights to the Humvee had been sold to the Chinese. But the military Humvee program and the commercial Hummer SUV program are separate.
GM announced Tuesday that it has a tentative agreement to sell Hummer to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co.
AM General sold GM the rights to sell Hummers to civilians in 1999. AM General makes the Hummer H2 model in Mishawaka, Ind., under contract for GM. A smaller version, the H3, is built at a GM plant in Shreveport, La.
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