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Posted on 11/02/2011 8:57:21 AM PDT by jazusamo
“…why not stop all ads, just put a $10k coupon for the Volt on the Checy website...the news would spread virally....”
After tax a 40,000 car costs 43,000. With the $7,500 socialistic incentive the cost after tax is: $34,937. Take an additional $10,000 off that at you’re down to $24,178. That’s close to the $25,000 list price of a VW Golf TDI. The Golf is comfortable and accelerates like a banshee and gets 40mpg+. It will never need a $2500 battery replacement.
There are many nicer fuel efficient cars in the $25,000 range. So, not even a socialistic taxpayer funded $17,500 off the base price will make the Volt attractive. Besides, the Volt is on target to be the 2011 Edsel.
That’s an excellent comparison.
One more thing you can add to your last paragraph. President Eisenhower didn’t make any pledges to FoMoCo to buy Edsel’s for government use.
hahaha...no doubt.
Especially since Robert McNamara (FordMoCo’s Eisenhower-era CEO); was Kennedy and Johnson’s Def. Sec.
No help coming there...
There are tons of used volts rusting on dealer lots to. Dealers where titling them for the credit and selling them to each other. Many used ones with less that 100 miles on them out there.
Yes, it it publicly traded. And yes, it is criminal (except when a Democrat does it).
Right now, GM is facing a class action lawsuit regarding the crappy suspension in their 2007-2008 Impalas. The new GM says they are not liable for claims against the old GM. Except that we have the President of the United States declaring that GM warranties are now even better because they are backed by the US government. And he did this to manipulate the stock price upward right before the government unloaded a ton of shares.
If anyone in the private sector had done this (like Jeffrey Skilling at Enron for example), they would be facing time in prison. Oh wait . . .
The money that was flushed down the Solyndra toilet would have bought 13,000 Volts.
I am so surprised that the government failed at this too they have such a history of success. I mean the last time they got involved in the auto industry brought us the popular Henry J.
“The 1951 Henry J was introduced in February 1950 at a Chicago Auto show. It was refered to as the “Red Car”, but was not officially on sale till Sept 28, 1950. The 1951 Henry J is often described as “Spartan.” This is an accurate description - especially true of the earliest Henry Js.
The Henry J was manufactured using funding from a government loan granted by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Part of the agreement was that the car would sell for $1300. To achieve this, features such as trunk lids and glove compartments were not included. Passenger side sun visors and dual horns were not included on the 4 cylinder models in order to meet the price of $1299 FOB.”
http://home.comcast.net/~ljfid/hjmodels.htm
click link to see more. (Not my blog)
but our tax dollars gave us these wonderful Volt Dancers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvwTMZNWGuk
Thanks....BTW..whatever happened to Obamagirl?
I think she’s servicing homeless men in tents at OWS events.
I drove a Volt last week at the Canadian Car of the Year TestFest. Not impressed. Lots of flash inside (whiz bang displays, etc.) but I’d rather drive many other hybrids - and I’m not a fan of most hybrids.
And it could only manage a third place finish in its category, I was pleased (and surprised) to see. it was beaten out by KIA, IIRC, and justifiably so.
Cheers,
Jim
Thanks for your post. I’ve suspected they aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.
I read articles on various websites that are supposed to be written by buyers and most of them sound like press releases from Chevy/GM.
Unless they are quite small, Al heads on a cast Iron block are a recipe for disaster at higher mileages. Cast Iron on Al? What WERE they thinking?
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