酒吧门外,悍马和其他昂贵的汽车在还没铺平的道路上跳着前进。
Outside its doors, Hummers and other pricey cars bounce along yet-to-be-paved roads.
悍马是军用型汽车。
举例来说,通用汽车给它的悍马找新的“驿站”就可能会遇到麻烦。由于油价飙升,这些身形庞大、如饥似渴的汽车已经不合时宜,通用汽车决定卖掉它们。
GM is likely to have trouble parking its Hummer division, for example, having decided to look for a buyer just as giant, thirsty vehicles are going out of fashion because of soaring oil prices.
悍马汽车为环保主义者所深恶痛绝,随着买家们为应对高油价而选择更小型汽车,悍马汽车在过去的18个月里遭到市场唾弃。
Loathed by environmentalists, the vehicles have suffered a plunge in popularity over the last 18 months as motorists opt for smaller vehicles in response to high petrol prices.
在找到悍马和土星品牌的买主之后,通用汽车又签下合约将旗下萨博公司出售给科尼塞克公司。 科尼塞克总部设在瑞典,是一家小型的的高性能汽车制造商。
After finding buyers for its Hummer and Saturn brands, General Motors entered an agreement to sell its Saab division to Koenigsegg, a tiny maker of high-performance cars based in Sweden.
一些人对悍马成为国产品牌的前景感到骄傲,而其他人认为腾中重工只是在拣通用汽车急于甩掉的包袱。
Some took great pride in the prospect of making Hummer a Chinese brand, while others think Tengzhong is only buying something GM wants to get rid of.
通用公司为其多功能运动型汽车品牌悍马找好买家,悍马代表了通用公司对耗油汽车的偏爱。
GM found a buyer for its Hummer sport-utility vehicle brand, which came to symbolise the company's fondness for gas-guzzling cars.
以通用汽车为例,申请了为期40天的破产保护,削除了悍马和土星的生产线,现在的通用汽车比以前更具竞争力了。
Just look at General Motors, which spent 40 days in bankruptcy and got rid of its Hummer and Saturn lines, and is the stronger for it.
不过,政客现在对“悍马”可能实现的收购案一言未发。“悍马”汽车耗油量大,企业也处于亏损中。
Politicians, however, have so far been muted in their response to the possible sale of Hummer, a gas-guzzling, loss-making brand.
最近,通用汽车曾警告,要是找不到买主的话将关闭悍马工厂。
GM recently warned that it would shut down Hummer unless it could find a buyer.
“地球之友”美国发言人尼克·贝尔宁把悍马汽车描述成“马路上污染最厉害的私家车”。
Nick Berning, a US spokesman for Friends of the Earth, described Hummers as "about the most highly polluting personal vehicles on the roads".
泰勒先生说,悍马的新主人计划给三个型号的汽车安装替代能源发动机,另有安装柴油机的悍马在北美市场外销售。
Mr. Taylor said in a statement that the new owners planned to offer alternative-fuel engines in Hummer’s three models, as well as a diesel version to be sold outside North America.
但汽车业跨国交易的历史记录并不那么好,尤其是悍马所在的小众市场。
But the track record of cross-border auto-sector deals, especially in niche markets like that for Hummers, isn't great.
今年1月份通用汽车的销售份额为19.5%,如果不计土星、庞蒂亚克、萨博和悍马四个品牌的销量,就只剩下16.9%,比丰田低1个百分点。
In January, GM had market share of 19.5%.without Saturn, Pontiac, Saab and Hummer, its share would have been 16.9% — a point less than Toyota's.
通用汽车在1999年收购了悍马品牌。
关于悍马的出售,“HanMa”或彪悍的马已经为人所知,这是通用汽车公司的以集中于少数几个品牌,重塑自己计划的一部分。
The sale of Hummer, known as "Han Ma" or Bold Horse in China, has been part of GM's plan to reinvent itself by concentrating on fewer brands.
悍马品牌最初用于军用越野车,由美国汽车综合公司(AMGeneral)生产制造。
Hummers were originally built as military off-road vehicles by a company called AM General.
过去两年,悍马的销售量已锐减,因为消费者尽量避开大型耗费车,选择小型的,节能的汽车。
Hummer sales have dwindled in the last two years, as consumers shunned big, gas-guzzling S.U.V. 's in favor of smaller, more fuel-efficient cars.
据《华尔街日报》报道,美国通用汽车正在考虑针对其悍马品牌的两笔收购报价。 通用原计划将悍马售予四川腾中重工机械有限公司,但最终失败。
General Motors is considering 2 offers for its Hummer brand after plans to sell it to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery failed, according to the Wall Street Journal.
今年一季度,悍马汽车的全球销量是5013辆,大幅下滑61%。
Worldwide sales of Hummers slumped by 61% to 5, 013 during the first quarter of the year.
在通用汽车考虑最新报价的同时,逐步停止悍马业务的进程也将继续。
“这个恐龙好像能嚼碎一辆悍马汽车。”他说。其所指的是通用汽车的大型运动型多用途车。
"This one is more like it could crush a Hummer," he said. referring to General Motors' large sport utility vehicle.
也许我们现在应先打消购买悍马的念头,考虑一下那些经济型的汽车了。
It may be time to put away the Hummer catalogue and to start looking at the price of ultra-economy cars.
悍马买家将合同建立H 3模型SUV和H3T皮卡在通用汽车的工厂什里夫波特,路易斯安那州,至少2010年。
The Hummer buyer would contract to build the H3 model SUV and the H3T pickup truck at GM's plant in Shreveport, Louisiana, through at least 2010.
悍马买家将合同建立H 3模型SUV和H3T皮卡在通用汽车的工厂什里夫波特,路易斯安那州,至少2010年。
The Hummer buyer would contract to build the H3 model SUV and the H3T pickup truck at GM's plant in Shreveport, Louisiana, through at least 2010.
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