Posted on 08/06/2010 7:12:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Watching the inevitable failure of this vehicle would be somewhat amusing if so much of my money hadn’t been stolen to create it.
This whole voltswagon thing is simply shocking!
Since I already paid for one, I am just going to go down to the Chevy dealership and demand my car. I don’t want a volt though, give me a cobalt or Malibu please.
Go Ford—Ford already has done what “patriots” would like to do—most, however, are really AINO!
Semper Fidelis
Dick G
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In case anyone missed it — that was my Gunny G: XXX-Honorable Mention of AINO!
It’s an economic failure, and it makes no sense to purchase one over a regular fuel efficient small car, but the Volt will sell like crazy to the trendy hipsters who want to make a statement. GM won’t be able to keep any on the lots for quite a while at first.
Looking forward to that first pic of one under a 16 wheeler.
Pray for America
I have to say this. I drive and have driven GM most of my life. But with that said they still got their heads up their butts with marketing.
I met the VP of North American Opperations a few years back in Suttons Bay MI. Speilman was his name. He was driving an SSR (A 50K Pick up on steriods) We talked and I ask him if he thought he hit the market. “OH HELL yes. It is a limited production model and we will sell it well.” Well the rest is history. STUPID!
Well Horse pucky. You build to mass production and build to the market. I mentioned the PT Cruiser and he basically blew me off.
The Volt was in development long before Zero and before bankruptcy.
He can't take credit for it nor should he be blamed for it (depending on your particular point of view).
Personally, I think GM would have survived w/o a bailout.
Would I buy a Volt? If I needed a second car, I would consider it.
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Many cars in the last few decades can last, Volvo has one approaching 3 million miles.
Who's the big mileage king here?
I thought I was cool because I had two oldsters with a quarter million each.
It gives me great hope that I can keep mine going as long as I'm going.
The EV-2 (Volt) is just another Pinto/Vega with a wind-up gimmick that delusional looohoooser users will soon find is a thunderous pain in the A$$!
“... for the well-off that will be subsidized by less well-off taxpayers at all stages ...”
The essence of elitism. Damn them.
I am not against alternate energy systems, if they make economic sense. I have been studying and buying solar panels and batteries for emergencies and off-grid cabins. I concluded that the panels have improved technically to the point that at current electrical power rates, they CAN pay for themselves, but the batteries cannot. The batteries are too expensive and short-lived to ever pay themselves off.
http://gm-volt.com/2010/08/06/majority-of-chevy-dealers-marking-up-volts-gm-bans-out-of-state-sales/
Most dealers marking up, GM bans out of state sales.
“The dealers are independent, for better and, in very rare cases, for worse,” he said. “There are some who have moved in the opposite direction of our request. In response, what we’ve done is to urge customers who have contacted us about pricing discrepancies to shop around, because there are dealerships in their area that are honoring M.S.R.P.”
Riiiiiiight. Gee Rob, if GM was serious about this, as opposed to say, just giving it lip service, wouldn't all ya'lld have to do is, say, stop selling any Volts (are any cars at all for that matter) to dealerships charging more than MSRP?
Trendy hipsters make a statement with cheap bumper stickers while spending your money on their favorite gubbermint projects-- not by spending their own money.
If Gubmint Motors thought the Volt would 'sell like crazy' they'd be planning to make more than a mere ten thousand for the whole first year.
GM announced an increase in production capacity by 50% in the second full year of production, based on interest generated after the price announcement.
There will easily be enough greenies to order 10’s of thousands of Volts.
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