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I likely won't be able to keep this entirely brief, but here goes. I'm a clear vehicle masochist, and I'll start there. Currently my stable was compromised of a Tesla Model S, Ford Bronco, Subaru Ascent and my current pride and joy the all-new Raptor. I have a few other vehicles on pre-order for sometime, those include:
1. Rivian R1S since mid-2019
2. Cybertruck (day 1 holder 2019)
3. Add Hummer EV to the list 3/23/22
My wait for the Rivian has been painful, and it's starting to lose some of its moxy to me personally. I'm price locked into my $75k adventure pack but I'll likely flip it for its true sticker now that prices have increased. It was supposed to replace our Subaru for my wife's family hauler, but I've been doing so much driving in the Raptor with our 3 boys that I'm not so sure we really need 3rd row... enter the Hummer.
A colleague of mine reserved early on a Hummer Launch Edition from a particular dealer locally and he's taking delivery in a couple weeks side by side with the stores owner. I decided to call up the owner myself being that it's a small dealer that went through its massive EV changes and asked about their orders and was shocked to hear that they only had about 20 to their specific dealership and they will charge MSRP. Full disclosure, I was willing to pay ADM. I paid under invoice for my Bronco First Edition but I did pay ADM on my Raptor 37 and it wouldn't have bothered me to pay a little extra for the Hummer.
In my mind, most people throwing $100 bucks down on a $100k truck aren't serious, so I'm knocking off at least 8 people from their list. I went ahead and placed my reservation after our call for both the truck and the SUV.
Now that I've done this - I've got a few extra questions for the knowledgeable people of the forum.
1. Did I need to reserve both the truck and SUV? It was not clear to me if I was absolutely locked into one or the other so I did both, I think I'm leaning towards SUV 3 motor but if the Cybertruck never sees the light of day for me I am considering the truck.
2. This may be a dumb question, but I don't know a lot about these Hummers or orders. All the launch editions are white - but I didn't see any colors to choose from for either model. I'm not locked into any specific color am I? I like white, not a fan of this blue grey.
3. Is there an average amount of allocations dealerships are getting? The owner seemed pretty confident I would get my Hummer from their dealer next year easily in the spring if I selected the SUV as he said they only had 2 SUV preorders and the rest were trucks. The owner seems like a great guy, really liked our convo and he knows my buddy but I've been ordering a lot of promises that haven't come true in the past 36 months so I'm cautiously optimistic.
4. And the big one that I'm sure is debated on this forum already and absolutely I'm going to start reading through threads - but as a guy who hasn't so much as watched a YouTube video on this thing outside of a couple hilarious ones talking about how not efficient it is(which makes me love it more) I really don't know a lot about it. Any reason someone should pick SUV over the truck? Truck has more utility, but SUV I think (personally) looks more proportional.
Happy to join the club!
1. Rivian R1S since mid-2019
2. Cybertruck (day 1 holder 2019)
3. Add Hummer EV to the list 3/23/22
My wait for the Rivian has been painful, and it's starting to lose some of its moxy to me personally. I'm price locked into my $75k adventure pack but I'll likely flip it for its true sticker now that prices have increased. It was supposed to replace our Subaru for my wife's family hauler, but I've been doing so much driving in the Raptor with our 3 boys that I'm not so sure we really need 3rd row... enter the Hummer.
A colleague of mine reserved early on a Hummer Launch Edition from a particular dealer locally and he's taking delivery in a couple weeks side by side with the stores owner. I decided to call up the owner myself being that it's a small dealer that went through its massive EV changes and asked about their orders and was shocked to hear that they only had about 20 to their specific dealership and they will charge MSRP. Full disclosure, I was willing to pay ADM. I paid under invoice for my Bronco First Edition but I did pay ADM on my Raptor 37 and it wouldn't have bothered me to pay a little extra for the Hummer.
In my mind, most people throwing $100 bucks down on a $100k truck aren't serious, so I'm knocking off at least 8 people from their list. I went ahead and placed my reservation after our call for both the truck and the SUV.
Now that I've done this - I've got a few extra questions for the knowledgeable people of the forum.
1. Did I need to reserve both the truck and SUV? It was not clear to me if I was absolutely locked into one or the other so I did both, I think I'm leaning towards SUV 3 motor but if the Cybertruck never sees the light of day for me I am considering the truck.
2. This may be a dumb question, but I don't know a lot about these Hummers or orders. All the launch editions are white - but I didn't see any colors to choose from for either model. I'm not locked into any specific color am I? I like white, not a fan of this blue grey.
3. Is there an average amount of allocations dealerships are getting? The owner seemed pretty confident I would get my Hummer from their dealer next year easily in the spring if I selected the SUV as he said they only had 2 SUV preorders and the rest were trucks. The owner seems like a great guy, really liked our convo and he knows my buddy but I've been ordering a lot of promises that haven't come true in the past 36 months so I'm cautiously optimistic.
4. And the big one that I'm sure is debated on this forum already and absolutely I'm going to start reading through threads - but as a guy who hasn't so much as watched a YouTube video on this thing outside of a couple hilarious ones talking about how not efficient it is(which makes me love it more) I really don't know a lot about it. Any reason someone should pick SUV over the truck? Truck has more utility, but SUV I think (personally) looks more proportional.
Happy to join the club!