Rush was saying the other day that in order to charge this piece of junk a 220Volt outlet will be required. In most homes the receptacles are wired for 110 volts. Installing a 220 volt outlet will cost an additional few hundred bucks. And if you don’t have garage a long extension cord will be needed which will create an additional hazard.Tell Obama to shove his Volt.
I will never buy a car from GM (Government Motors). Ford - yes. THey made it on their own. But I will not put a dime into a bailed out company, I think I gave enough already, don’t you?
Big government awesomeness!
Updating 60s Soviet chic with a distinctly 80s feel.
$40,000 for a volt?.....FUBO!....I can buy a classic car with a new engine and drive train for less!
It is reVOLTing what Obama did in GM’s bankruptcy, basically stealing from bondholders in favor of his union chiefs buddies.
I can’t wait to laugh at friends and family that fall for the voltswagen.
Rename GM British Leyland and get it over with.
Fixed it.
40 miles range if you don’t need heat or air conditioning. Meaning it is useless!
Forty grand for a mouse car which will travel nearly 40 miles before running out of juice, after which you’ll have a nice 4 cylinder mouse car.
(1) For $40,000 you can by a Prius and $18,000 worth of gas. At 40 mpg and $2.65/gal that $18,000 will provide 272,000 miles of driving. Hmmm...
(2) The electric range is "up to 40 miles". Any bets on the range with the heater running on a cold Minnesota morning? Or with the A/C running on a hot Texas afternoon?
I think that the Chevrolet POS would have been a much better name than Volt. Just my opinion.
Maybe they should give away a free Droid with each purchase.
This one always brings a smile to my face
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAqPMJFaEdY
It’s the Pelosi GTxi SS/RT Sport Edition, courtesy IOWAHAWK
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/11/lemon.html
UPDATE: Many questions of the “what the hell is that car?” variety. It is the Citicar, an early 70s electric produced in the USA. A while back I spotted a couple at a local swap meet. Here’s the kicker: just got an email from the great internet comic artist Chris Muir of “Day by Day” fame (hat tip Mike Hendrix), informing me that his dad was its designer(!):
“It was waaaay back in 72’. The specs said it had to fit sideways on a truckbed,hence its length. Batteries were primitive back then, as well as drives,etc.It was an aluminum roll cage @ ABS skin and did indeed meet crash specs. Slow as hell,but was street legal,I drove it to high school.”
Ain’t that a kick in the head?
We need a picture of a bunch of lemons, arranged in a “bowtie” pattern with the copper/zinc electrodes stuck in them, all wired together and hooked up to a VOLT meter.
Jay, here comes a tax audit.