She is storing the items in her barn and will sell them to incoming students on Labor Day weekend. Heller got the idea when she was teaching at the University of Richmond. GM is trying to appeal to customers looking for larger and more aggressive-looking sports utility vehicles. Although GM plans to introduce at least two smaller models of the Hummer, its current Hummer is taller, much wider and a full ton heavier than even GM's largest sport utility vehicle, the Suburban. The Hummer, which seats only four, weighs as much as three small cars.
Hummers emit far more air pollutants than cars.
Current federal rules allow large sport utility vehicles to emit 5.5 times the smog-causing nitrogen oxides that cars do. While Ford has improved its sport utilities and pickups so they pollute no more than cars, GM does not plan to reduce air pollution from its Hummers and its other large sport utility vehicles until required to do so by federal regulations in 2004.