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GM Shuts Down Volt Plant to Prepare for New Malibu, Increase Production
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| 19 May 2011
| Jason Udy
Posted on 05/19/2011 1:35:01 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog
My, how surprising and unexpected.
It's a shame this is probably a good business decision. I want to see GM die sooner rather than later and am boycotting them until they die, so I'd rather see more bad decisions. The time for an all electric car may come some day, but it's not today, and it's not from GM. There is no situation in which I would buy a new or used GM product ever again, not after the corruption of the government nationalization and stiffing the rightful claimants on their assets.
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posted on
05/19/2011 1:38:31 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
(Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
To: smokingfrog
The volt was more like a millivolt.
Another stupendously liberal-like decision from the bin of GM’sliberal arts major management.
Earth to GM - you might try listening to your engineers already.
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posted on
05/19/2011 1:43:15 PM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: smokingfrog
60,000 cars total? for the entire world?
isnt’ that a small number?
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posted on
05/19/2011 1:45:25 PM PDT
by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: smokingfrog
if GM stops building the volt would anyone notice?
I can only imagine these are all government buyers.
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posted on
05/19/2011 1:47:23 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: smokingfrog
“increase the supply to fulfill the demand long-term”
Lololololololol
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posted on
05/19/2011 1:47:25 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
To: smokingfrog
The Volt and the Ampera seem to be meeting serious Ohms in the marketplace. $41k for a Cruze is a bit much.
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posted on
05/19/2011 1:47:49 PM PDT
by
MediaMole
To: smokingfrog
Yeah...I’m gonna buy one for sure.....I’m just aching to buy a car made by Government Motors, manufactured by loser union workers who bgot to screw investors for pennies on the dollar because of the bully Obmama...yeah...sure...as soon as I grow a new asshole.
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posted on
05/19/2011 1:48:57 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: Psycho_Bunny
long-term demand probably means crony capitalist insider fleet deal.
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posted on
05/19/2011 1:53:12 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: smokingfrog
I read that they were selling a whopping 300 volts per month.
The only potential change to that trend was GE buying up half the production in exchange for Immelt getting a appointment as economy csar or something.
GM is going down...
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posted on
05/19/2011 1:54:54 PM PDT
by
Triple
(Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
To: smokingfrog
I saw a volt in Palo Alto a few days ago. It was the ugliest new car I’ve seen in ages - with “racoon” paint bordered by gaudy chrome under the side windows, and every thing else looking cheap and flimsy.
The fools at GM don’t realize that owning an electric car is all about striking a pose, and that means in reality that the primary design goal must be to look “fashionable”.
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posted on
05/19/2011 2:01:52 PM PDT
by
Yossarian
("All the charm of Nixon. All the competency of Carter." - SF Chronicle comment post on Obama)
To: Triple
"I read that they were selling a whopping 300 volts per month."
that's correct and Govt. Motors is STILL sticking by their projection of a million sold by 2014. At this rate they are only going to be off by about 63 years.
To: smokingfrog
To: Pollster1
My, how surprising and unexpected.
It shouldn't be. I send you the same story (word for word) yesterday.
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posted on
05/19/2011 2:47:06 PM PDT
by
truthguy
(Good intentions are not enough.)
To: smokingfrog
I can't wait until Top Gear gets their hands on a Dolt.
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posted on
05/19/2011 2:51:08 PM PDT
by
razorback-bert
(Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.)
To: circlecity
"I read that they were selling a whopping 300 volts per month."
Everything coming off the assembly line is sold. GM never planned to produce more than 10,000 units in 2011 and all the production for 2011 is sold out. People have already put down their deposits. A lot of their production was also going to the Volt's sister car, the Ampera which will go to Opel and Vauxhall in Europe. The Volt is going to be a major success. Live with it.
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posted on
05/19/2011 3:01:04 PM PDT
by
truthguy
(Good intentions are not enough.)
To: smokingfrog
If a Chevrolet Volt met the Opel Ampera head on...Watt would be the result.
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posted on
05/19/2011 3:07:48 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(Obamas approval ratings are so low, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the USA.)
To: Pollster1
I agree with you 100%. Obama Motors can kiss my as*. So can the UAW thugs. The next car I buy will be made in a right to work state, not by the UAW THUGS.
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posted on
05/19/2011 3:11:15 PM PDT
by
bfree
(The revolution is coming - OBAMI IS THE ENEMY OF FREEDOM)
To: truthguy
The Volt is going to be a major success. Live with it.
LOL - please hold your breath, okay? LOL
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posted on
05/19/2011 3:12:17 PM PDT
by
bill1952
(Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
To: truthguy
Everything coming off the assembly line is sold. GM never planned to produce more than 10,000 units in 2011 and all the production for 2011 is sold out. People have already put down their deposits. huh...that's funny, wonder why just today the Wash DC area radio news announced Volt was opening the market here and in a few other cities. Last published Volt sales IIRC in March 2011 indicated less than a thousand sold.
Sure would appreciate you showing me an industry source to verify your assertion.
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posted on
05/19/2011 3:14:42 PM PDT
by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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