Heavyweight US SUV has female charm; Hummer sales in Spain on track to beat expectations.(sports utility vehicle)

Byline: Paulo Soares de Oliveira

The heavyweight sport-utility Hummer has female appeal in Spain.

Women there are so attracted by the [euro]80,000 vehicle that "seven women have convinced their husbands to buy our H2 model, even though their husbands never intended to buy one," says Hummer Spain Managing Director Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros.

Since the three-ton Hummer appeared at the Madrid auto show in May, sales have surged, says Espinosa.

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The General Motors-built H2 model and the [euro]200,000 H1, built by US contract coachbuilder AM General, went on sale in Spain at the start of the year.

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