Volt is one step Closer

[USA1]

Originally Posted By: Zedhed
Yeah, GM has a great track record with new and untested "niche" cars......Right?

Think Corvair, Vega, Citation, Fiero, Aztek, EV1.... How can it lose?


I'm thinking Corvette, Camaro, Malibu, Lacross, G8, Impala, any GM truck or full/mid size van and anything else that Japan cannot compete with. How can it not win with a car that DOESN"T NEED ANY FUEL AT ALL FOR THE FIRST 40 MILES OF A TRIP, and the gas pedal doesn't stick causing a fatality at terminal speed?!

 

[Paul56]

The proof will be in the pudding...

In other words when sufficient data has been gathered from Volts operating in the hands of consumers after a coupla years.

Childish sarcasm aside...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMSqnpGLqQ4

 

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Im all for the Chevy Volt!!

I plan on buying one myself...maybe next year. My drive to work is 12 miles each way, so Im stoked about not having the gas engine kick in at all to recharge the batteries.

Naysayers can say what they want... they said the same things about the Prius, right? Look how many of those have sold. But "oh no... nobody would ever buy a hybrid" ... its 2010, get with it.

 

[Zedhed]

Originally Posted By: USA1
Originally Posted By: Zedhed
Yeah, GM has a great track record with new and untested "niche" cars......Right?

Think Corvair, Vega, Citation, Fiero, Aztek, EV1.... How can it lose?


I'm thinking Corvette, Camaro, Malibu, Lacross, G8, Impala, any GM truck or full/mid size van and anything else that Japan cannot compete with. How can it not win with a car that DOESN"T NEED ANY FUEL AT ALL FOR THE FIRST 40 MILES OF A TRIP, and the gas pedal doesn't stick causing a fatality at terminal speed?!


Not new, untested, "niche" cars....

Think large, untested on public roads, Li-ion battery pack, fluctuating house voltages, moron vehicle owners, and moron local mechanics and maybe you get the picture... Nothing to worry about, Right?

 

[Zedhed]

Originally Posted By: mechanicx
Originally Posted By: Zedhed
Yeah, GM has a great track record with new and untested "niche" cars......Right?

Think Corvair, Vega, Citation, Fiero, Aztek, EV1.... How can it lose?


Nothing particular wrong with most of those cars on that list.


Huh?

 

[LS2JSTS]

So a Citation or Aztek or a Fiero was a "niche" car?

How many X cars were built do you think? What qualifys a car to be a "niche" car in your opinion?

 

[Paul56]

http://gm-volt.com/2009/08/20/charging-the-chevy-volt/

I love this statement...

"Furthermore, importantly, the system is designed so the car cannot drive when it is plugged in."

I suppose they are anticipating owners purchasing generators and attempting to charge the Volts on the go.

 

[Zedhed]

Originally Posted By: LS2JSTS
So a Citation or Aztek or a Fiero was a "niche" car?

How many X cars were built do you think? What qualifys a car to be a "niche" car in your opinion?



X-Cars were the first transverse-mounted engine, front-wheel drive GM compacts and yes that was a "niche" market in America when it was launched and YES, those cars had a horrible reputation for many years -- I know, I owned 2 of them.

 

[labman]

Originally Posted By: Zedhed
Yeah, GM has a great track record with new and untested "niche" cars......Right?

Think Corvair, Vega, Citation, Fiero, Aztek, EV1.... How can it lose?


Just regular GM bashing. I think both the Corvair and the Citation were highly successful mainstream cars. They built tons of Covairs and I knew many people that claimed they were the best cars they ever had. The only real problem is that they were different and a certain young lawyer saw a chance to make a name for himself. Which he did with all the help the media could give him.

As for the Citation, it and the other x-bodies were great cars. They did have some troubles the first year like anything new and different. Once again, the business hating media did their best to discredit it. The 81 Phoenix I had serve us well until we traded it on a 92 Grand Am.

A small Volt based pickup would serve me well now.

 

[Nick R]

Originally Posted By: Paul56
http://gm-volt.com/2009/08/20/charging-the-chevy-volt/

I love this statement...

"Furthermore, importantly, the system is designed so the car cannot drive when it is plugged in."

I suppose they are anticipating owners purchasing generators and attempting to charge the Volts on the go.


LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trI0ZI-e4NY

 

[chad8]

I loved my pontiac phoenix , cosworth vega and little red fiero. They were all dependable well built cars.
The volt is the type of car what g.m. , fiat and ford will build in the future. We need them to be a success.
I am working in a Ford plant re-tooling for the next generation focus. We have 500-1000 Americans working to get it up and running.
Without a strong AMERICAN manufacturing sector ,and a lower dependence on foreign oil you may see the end of this country as we know it.
So use your sarcasm wisely or you might be working for Dubai within 20 years. Thus will be the United states Of America. (subsidiary of Dubai) Hail to the King.

 

[labman]

+1

 

[marty600]

Originally Posted By: chad8

Without a strong AMERICAN manufacturing sector ,and a lower dependence on foreign oil you may see the end of this country as we know it.

All wealth of a nation is based on 3 things:
Manufacturing
Resource extraction
Agriculture
Everything else follows. We are dead without all 3 in place.