[raptor22]

Extension cord optional.

[raptor22]

Volt ping

[Red Badger]

I have read that dealers are telling GM to not ship any more Volts because people just don’t want any and they can’t take the inventory hit..............

[NoLibZone]

We will always loose.

Voting is 100% wasted effort.

[Venturer]

Even with the $10,000 dollar subsidy the thing is still $10,000 dollars over priced.

Hell: Why not just give them away to anybody with a car that gets less than 20 MPG and then take the old cars and destroy the motors.

HMMMM where did I get that destroy the motors stuff.

[Da Coyote]

Hey, Obamabutt, sell me one of those Volt turkeys for around $1k, and I’ll gladly buy it.

That way, I can have sufficient funs to repair it after GM goes under again and they pull the warrenty rug out - also again - from those suckers who stupid enough to purchase their MBA designed slugs. (Corvette excepted, of course.)

(Speaking as a consumer who made the same d*mned mistake with GM too many times.)

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[tcrlaf]

A big killer to the Volt is that, if you lease it, you CANNOT take the tax credit. The Leasing Company gets it.

Even at the GMAC/ALLY promo rate of 2.9% for 60 months, that’s a $750 car payment, to get the credit. Not a lot of regular folks are going to be able to afford $750 car payments.

If they could, they’d be buying a Benz that gets almost the same mileage.

[Lazlo in PA]

So, doing the math, we're talking about a $10 billion dollar "incentive" to get people to buy the Chevy Volt and similar vehicles.

Well judging by the absolutely dismal sales for these worthless vehicles, hopefully the majority of those funds won't be squandered before it can be ended.

[freedumb2003]

[Pollster1]

If I wanted a golf cart, I could get one a whole lot cheaper than the Volt, and I could get it from an honest company, not from a corrupt organization that stole the assets of their bondholders and then raided the United States Treasury. There is no way I will ever purchase a GM product again, and even if I was willing to deal with that sleazy company, I would not want a Volt. I make fun of Volt owners, but I would never want a vehicle that is that useless.

[Truth29]

With all the limitations on this lemon, they are no where near where they need to be to reach their mass audience of Obama droids. They need to give it to you for free and pay you a monthly fee for the inconvenience of driving one. That’er git er done.

[LucianOfSamasota]

We wonder if people making $170,000, the average income of the relatively few buyers of the $40,000 Volt to date, really need the incentive. It is not your typical family or factory worker's car. So doesn't that make this the functional equivalent of tax credits for the rich?

No, reward for obedience. Absolutely necessary for patronage based governance. Punish the dissidents, reward the faithful. No matter what cost.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

[GeronL]

Its a failure so lets up that subsidy

FAIL

[dila813]

The perverse thing is, that this will cause GM to increase the price on the car because they don’t make money on them.

So the consumer isn’t going to get them cheaper, they won’t sell more, and GM will pocket all the money.

Real Smart!

[Seaplaner]

"We give consumers the incentive to buy these cars," White House economic chief Gene Sperling said at a budget briefing where he announced the 33% increase from the current $7,500 subsidy..."

This means, essentially, that you and I pay money NOT to own one of these gems.

(And, it's more than worth it, n'est ce pas?)

.

[TheBattman]

But just today, I read that GM has reported is biggest profit every - some $7.6 billion...

Of course - how much of that is taxpayer subsidies of the Volt (and who knows what else)...?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michellekrebs/2012/02/16/little-celebration-for-record-gm-profit/

[TheBattman]

Increasing the subsidy for the Volt to $10K??? That is the direct-to-consumer subsidy. That isn’t including the subsidy for the manufacture of the car in the first place- aren’t those figures somewhere around $250,000 per car?