One you can be proud of? One with great resale potential?
Camaro.
Soetoro’s WHORES reap what they sow. ROFL. Over my dead body will I spend my cash on a GM vehicle.
Is that anything like a Bill O'Reilly Republican?
Bob, don't piss down our backs and tell us it's raining. The Volt is just an overpriced variant of the Chevy Cruze, which was mostly designed and tested by Daewoo and Opel.
Camaro.
“However, despite the aftermath of all this, namely a shutdown of Volt production to balance output with inventory, Lutz said that based on information from GM, March is expected to have been a record sales month.”
Well Bob, lemme tell ya the reality is this. If if weren’t for the recent GE order for corporate use the volt would be DOA. No life support, nothing.
Isn’t it funny. GE the biggest Corporate Wefare whore going is now ordering hundreds of Volts that my grandkids get to pay for because of those nice little 10k tax breaks for each car they purchase.
Mabe Imelt should cough up his “fair share” and cover the full cost. Given he’s one of those filthy rich people and GE hasn’t been paying their fair share of taxes lately.
Yet Toyota dealers can’t keep a Prius C on their lots. Yeah, it’s those right-wing talk show hosts.
Again my "gnome" notes his "gnomes" tell him the Volt is the real deal engineering wise, but price point, weight, marketability and market acceptance? It has fallen on it's face.
However, electrification of the drive-train vs. Plug-in is a completely different subject. Their maybe some real good reasons for the Series Hybrid type Volt drive-train with regeneration, but IMHO a 435 lb battery is a big problem.
Watch for the Electric Ford Focus with the gear-less electric motor that I think is playing with the sine wave to get varying torque so a CVT is not needed. I repeat a Transmission is not needed. IMHO this is a huge breakthrough that no one sees...
Imagine 2 of these electric motors/knuckles, one front, one rear, with a small pony motor mid engine. Poor Mans 4WD Lotus Elise Anyone?
I can dream can't I?
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/11/ford-focus-electric-motor-extracted-split-asunder-coppery-guts/
Why does he care what a right wing talk show host says? He’s selling to the greenies, not to conservatives.
Who cares, it is an over-priced, under performing, early foray into alternamotive technology. Until better power storage (weight, capacity, refresh rate), or power generation (fuel cell, fusion, efficient solar, steam, gunpowder, dual cylinder power stroke ICE, etc)are realized, these hybrids, electric scooters, smart (read dumb) cars are interim.
Call a spade a spade and let the market decide. Get the government out of the market and let the market grow.
The Volt is a Chevy, a GM product. GM took the bailout. If the Volt was the best thing since sliced bread I wouldn’t have one.
My last couple of cars were Jeeps, a Chrysler product. Chrysler took the bailout. No more Jeeps.
That leaves Ford. I have one of their products now and am satisfied. If they build an acceptable electric, maybe I’ll consider one. But they probably won’t for a long time. Nobody will with current battery tech.