[stephenjohnbanker]

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[Sudetenland]

Fun read, thanks.

[hinckley buzzard]

Just another liberal weenie masturbating on NRO. Hope his mother doesn't catch him in the act, he'll be traumatized.

[Nervous Tick]

Hilarious article about a sad subject!

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Love it or hate it. I really don’t care. Just don’t make me subsidize it. If I’m forced to pay part of your car payment I expect you to get your butt over here and make me a sandwich.

[Lazlo in PA]

After barely a few miles at cruising speed I figure I could get used to this. It sure beats my usual ride — a dun-colored ’94 Cherokee with a failing transfer case — if for no other reason than that its right rear bumper isn’t held on by duct tape. Oh, and it is quiet.

Some real car guy writing this. He is driving a $#!t box.

The day I take political advice from Car and Driver is the day I will ask NR on which hatchback to buy.

[Lazlo in PA]

Motorhead, Collector Car Junkie, Speed Freak, Automotive Related Ping List.

Freepmail "Lazlo in PA" to be added or removed.

[wyokostur]

What’s funny, is when he goes to plug it in, and there is no electricity because the coal fired powerplants are shut down. HAHA !

[NonValueAdded]

It is quiet, deadly quiet, an adjective left out by the author. There was an idiot driving one in the Walmart parking lot not too long ago, driving too fast, swerving around a car stopped for pedestrians in the crosswalk. If I was 10 seconds quicker exiting the store, I'd be DRT. Not a single audible clue that death was stalking the parking lot in the form of a 20-something liberal idiot in his look-at-me overpriced skateboard

Ya know, those laws on the books when automobiles first came out, the ones that required a man to walk in front with a lantern or maybe a bell?. Perhaps they were just ahead of their time.

[SkyDancer]

Psst! You Forgot This!!

[montanajoe]

The volt is not it, but I'd actually like to see a market for the electrics develop. The torque and instant power the electrics can put out will make them fast, fast, fast...of course the DOT will do everything to prevent that but I can see a time like the late fifties and early sixties where kids and a few old farts are souping up their battery-mobiles

[mamelukesabre]

I saw a VOLT for the very first time last week. I followed it on the interstate for a few miles. Not a bad looking car actually. I can’t believe they cost over 40k. What a ripoff.

I never knew they had a gasoline motor in them. I thought they were purely battery powered. I think that’s a cool idea adding a gasoline motor for power, but eliminating the transmission...its kinda like the drivetrain of a train...diesel-electrics ya know.

Too bad about the price. If they could’ve made them for half the price they would’ve been the greatest things on the planet since the model T Ford.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Kellis91789]

So the writer loves the power, smoothness, quiet, leather interior, electronics, and handling of the vehicle. Things that in any other car review would be paramount concerns.

Then he spends twice as much space lamenting that he can’t find recharge points while on a long trip — while never mentioning that exactly what makes the Volt better than the Leaf is that you can utilize gasoline on long trips. Then he laments that he can’t find working charge stations in DC, and complains about the cost when he finally does find one, when the whole point of the Volt is to charge at home and never need public charging stations.

So he leaves no doubt in our minds that he is and idiot. Why would his editor not have bounced this bumbling fool’s article and fired him for his temerity in submitting it ? The standards at NRO have really gone downhill.

[ltc8k6]

http://green.autoblog.com/2012/05/01/chevy-volt-sales-drop-to-1-462-nissan-leaf-sales-fall-to-370/

After selling a record number of Volts in March – 2,289 – Chevrolet managed to move just 1,462 in April. This is more inline with previous recent months (1,023 sales in February, 603 sold in January, 1,529 in December) and is almost three times the 493 sold in April 2011.

For the Leaf, Nissan sold just 370 in April, down from 579 units in March and 478 in February. In fact, 370 is lower than the number Nissan sold in April 2011, 573. The Leaf’s best sales month ever was June 2011 with 1,708 units.