First, rememebr OUR tax dollars pay for the ad spending. I’d love to know what the ad cost per car sold is? Say it’s $10k..why not stop all ads, just put a $10k coupon for the Volt on the Checy website...the news would spread virally....
You’re probably right, of course it’d still be our tax dollars in the $7,500 tax credit.
I’d sure like to know how many Volts would have sold by now without the tax credit.
“…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.
but our tax dollars gave us these wonderful Volt Dancers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvwTMZNWGuk