In my humble opinion, the Volt IS the Twinkie of the auto world.
Union at Hostess totally to blame for its own demise. Federal hack bankruptcy judge trying to force owners to pay parasites but they will just dismiss case and sell trademarks and recipes to foreign company and union goes home on welfare. This was what will finally happen at Government Motors and Chrysler. Noone buys their cars. Ever see one? they are all fleet sales to government agencies. Terrible cars. Never buy one not even used
Well, we understand that, but how do the Democrats look at it? They think the problem with GM is that management was paid too much and too much money was taken out of the company to pay stockholders dividends. How did they come to think that way?
Put yourself in the shoes of GM’s CEOs in the 60s-80s. You see the imports coming and and you realize you have to cut labor costs. How exactly do you do that? Lockout? Every night, there’s Walther Cronkite showing stories of kids with no Christmas presents. You start to get threatening calls from Senators. You going to fight the unions or try to hang on and get your retirement? Did our automakers know how to make good cars that were profitable? Of course they did. Democrats screw up everything they touch.