Chevy Volt
Same car (both Daewoo/Opel designed/engineered Delta II platforms), different drivetrains. Volt will get 55-60 mpg in real life. Cruze will get 45 mpg at half the price.
I hate Government Motors and would never buy either.
Posted on 08/09/2010 11:03:07 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Have you driven a Chevy Volt
The headline is a play an early ‘80s Ford car ad campaign. Have you driven a Ford. . .lately? was the tag line and it's instructive when considering Chevrolet's new Volt, the car that'll make GM a "leader" in green vehicle technology and create green blue collar jobs. The answer to Have you driven a Chevy Volt . . .lately? is most likely to be no.
I really love cars, and it pains me to criticize a vehicle, since my premise is all cars are good, some are better than others. Plus I know people at GM who love cars and worked diligently on this car, even if they thought it an answer to a question no one asked. While the Volt looks like smart product planning and business management to the Obama regime - people who don't know or care about cars - unfortunately, it fails on several levels.
Start with a $41,000 list price and with the $7500 Federal tax credit it drops to $33,500. I would even speculate that California, with a $20 billion deficit, could even be willing to spend money it doesn't have by kicking in a state hybrid vehicle credit to shave the price slightly. Regardless, tax credits mean more of what we don't need: government spending.
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Are they Holdens shipped over from Oz and rebadged or are they built here by UAW vermin?
The GTO and G8 were built in OZ.
The Statesman/Caprice is currently as well. Whether they will shift production, I can’t say. I doubt they will because this is a rear wheel drive V8 powered sedan.
Chevy Volt
Same car (both Daewoo/Opel designed/engineered Delta II platforms), different drivetrains. Volt will get 55-60 mpg in real life. Cruze will get 45 mpg at half the price.
I hate Government Motors and would never buy either.
The Cruze is a Daewoo design with Opel engineering.
40 if you’re lucky. A?C will make it worse. Turning on the heater will make it much worse. Hills will make it worse.
Expect 25 miles or so in real life.
340-40=300miles
9 gallons over 300 miles = 33.3mpg for the Volt’s engine.
9 gallons over 340 miles = 37.7mpg for the Volt’s engine and battery.
Overall FE for the Volt seems decidedly unimpressive on long trips.
If we go with a 6 gallon tank and the stated 340 mile total range we get 56.6 for the engine and battery and 50 for the engine alone.
How they are getting big numbers is using shorter trips where the first 40 mile use no fuel. So they could say you went 80 miles and only used 3/4 of a gallon of fuel so you got 106 miles to the gallon.
You said it, many great rides made over the past few decades are better built and can provide better service than the dumbed down clown cars being 'ass embled' now and in the ridiculous future.
It's actually becoming chic, Volvo is in the lead with a car approaching 3 million miles.
Who's the high miler around here?
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