[lacrew]

I've made it a monthly ritual to find out the Volt Excuse. Its great fun. This month's installment has more than one. First, the real news - Volt year to year sales in Feb are down 23%.

Now for the excuses:

1. Ignore the year to year, and notice they 'bounced back a little' from January (and forget January was terrible).

2. Last February sales were so good, there was no way to match them.

3. This one is my favorite. They just didn't have enough cars to sell.

A final note, I copied and pasted the article, so "There just isn't enough casr..." is a simultaneous grammar and typographical error. InsideEVs might be a shoestring operation...as in some dude in his mom's basement.

[Jeff Chandler]

Shocking!

[JPG]

[Sacajaweau]

The only reason the volt lives is because GE bought a fleet and installed stations for testing. Bet they made out like a bandit.

And then IIRC, Obama hired the GE CEO as an advisor.

[Paine in the Neck]

Who is buying these things? Are any being sold to private individuals or are they all being purchased as "fleet cars"?

[Sacajaweau]

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1073034_ge-employees-get-chevy-volt-electric-cars-all-gas-use-oked-sometimes

[Howie66]

Since Junebug got rid of the Chevy Volt that he drove all of last season, I would imagine that the sales of this over-priced road apple/hooptie will drop like a rock.

Glad to see him driving a real car, again!

GO!! JUNIOR!! GO!!*

*(Note: Junebug = Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR driver of #88 Chevrolet for you Prius driving soccer fans)

[VRWCarea51]

I am thinking out of the 1210 cars sold, 1204 were purchased for the heat during this cold winter when the thing burn down your garage.

[Veggie Todd]

How many of the 1,210 were purchased by the government?

[ilgipper]

I just saw a Volt for the first time ever a few weeks ago. Who in the hell would pay $40,000 for that. It’s not a terrible looking car, but you can get a damn nice car for less.