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Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf Show Lackluster Sales in February
The Atlantic ^ | 3/3/2011 | Megan McArdle

Posted on 03/04/2011 12:37:34 PM PST by Sneakyuser

Autoblog reports that the Chevy Volt sold 281 units in February, down from 321 in February. Meanwhile, sales of the Nissan Leaf dropped from 87 to 67. The trend seems pretty dismal:

. . . here's the big scorecard for all sales of these vehicles thus far:

Volt: 928

Leaf: 173

Ouch.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: eco; gm; liberals; obama
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1 posted on 03/04/2011 12:37:35 PM PST by Sneakyuser
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To: Sneakyuser

Excellent, this story is getting some juice.

Yesterday’s thread on the autoblog article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2683415/posts


2 posted on 03/04/2011 12:41:42 PM PST by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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So how long until the EPA or somebody makes it the “official” company car and orders a bunch. You know, to “show the way”.


3 posted on 03/04/2011 12:44:02 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Sneakyuser

“Hi, I’m the Electric Car, I can’t go very fast or very far.”


4 posted on 03/04/2011 12:45:49 PM PST by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: libertarian27
CAUTION: GM has not ramped up production on the Volt yet, so these numbers are meaningless. I talked to a product engineer supplying Volt parts this morning and he said they were running like 100/week, which is in line with these numbers.

Hate to say it (I am no fan of the Dolt), but they are talking about doubling annual volumes from their original plan. They would not be planning that way without some good indication that it willl be a success. And that was before the oil price surge.

5 posted on 03/04/2011 12:46:23 PM PST by Liberty1970 (Thanking God for many blessings :-))
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To: Sneakyuser

Nobody is going to buy these things, except lefty billionaires looking for a fourth or fifth car to impress their neighbors.


6 posted on 03/04/2011 12:47:48 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Sneakyuser

Sales will improve when gas hits $5.


7 posted on 03/04/2011 12:48:25 PM PST by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: Sneakyuser

Thats what happens when you let a know-nothing idiot who’s never held a real job like Barry Soetoro tell GM how to run its business.


8 posted on 03/04/2011 12:49:13 PM PST by Astronaut
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To: Liberty1970
CAUTION: GM has not ramped up production on the Volt yet, so these numbers are meaningless.

Then why on Barry's 'Green' Earth did GM put a $3 Million dollar Superbowl commercial on this contraption without product to sell?

Numbers still not meaningless - they are pathetic :>)

9 posted on 03/04/2011 12:49:34 PM PST by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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To: Sneakyuser

Mean while plant workers are getting full weekly pay for one day a week work. So please stop worrying about their welfare.


10 posted on 03/04/2011 12:50:46 PM PST by org.whodat
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“Lackluster”?
Sales of this pig are in the toilet.
Be damned if I’d buy any damned gub mint motor car no matter how much smoke obammy tries to blow up my ole wazoo.


11 posted on 03/04/2011 12:51:46 PM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: libertarian27

Because it was your money!!!


12 posted on 03/04/2011 12:52:27 PM PST by org.whodat
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13 posted on 03/04/2011 12:57:12 PM PST by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *wipes eyes* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!


14 posted on 03/04/2011 1:00:41 PM PST by pabianice
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Sales will improve when gas hits $5.

I doubt that as you can get a car that gets 25% better gas mileage for 50% of the price. It has also been reported that the heater in those smug boxes makes the old VW Beetle seems like a sweat box. There is NO logical reason to by this oil\coal powered car.

15 posted on 03/04/2011 1:02:11 PM PST by Drill Thrawl (I don't prep for the disaster. I prepare for the rebuilding.)
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I would say that these Obama greenie-cars are the Edsels of the new millennium except for the fact that after 60 years Edsels have collector value, with some selling for $100,00.

In 60 years these greenie-cars and their burned out batteries will be nothing but toxic rust piles in roadside junkyards.


16 posted on 03/04/2011 1:02:38 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." -- Ron Paul)
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>> Volt: 928

I wonder how many of those were bought by federal, state, and municipal governments.


17 posted on 03/04/2011 1:03:58 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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...their burned out batteries will be nothing but toxic rust piles in roadside junkyards....

Sounds very "green" to me. /s

18 posted on 03/04/2011 1:05:37 PM PST by Drill Thrawl (I don't prep for the disaster. I prepare for the rebuilding.)
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To: Sneakyuser

Consumer Reports sure didn’t think much of them.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2681990/posts


19 posted on 03/04/2011 1:05:37 PM PST by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: paulycy

The lemon needs to be more yellow. Other than that it is Hilarious!


20 posted on 03/04/2011 1:08:44 PM PST by frogjerk (I believe in unicorns, fairies and pro-life Democrats.)
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