Posted on 07/31/2010 12:24:02 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Edward Niedermeyer goes to town on the Chevy Volt:
For starters, G.M.’s vision turned into a car that costs $41,000 before relevant tax breaks ... but after billions of dollars of government loans and grants for the Volt’s development and production. And instead of the sleek coupe of 2007, it looks suspiciously similar to a Toyota Prius. It also requires premium gasoline, seats only four people (the battery runs down the center of the car, preventing a rear bench) a
Looks like even the liberals are smart enough not to buy this joke...
Rush keeps saying the VOLT goes 40 miles....In reality you can only go twenty miles, then twenty miles home to plug it back in.
Now and forever more known as Obama’s Dolt!
Ha! Good one.
It’s got gasoline back-up. Still a joke, but seriously, it’s a joke with more than a 20 mile trip radius.
I lived in Colorado...would it make it over Vail Pass???
As usual, Rush is right!
He also pointed out that products never live up to their stated specs.
I bet their specs state “up to” 40 miles.
“It’s got gasoline back-up.”
Premium only from what I’ve heard.
All is not well in the town of Greenville.
Never the less. I’m sure the only market for this thing is folks that can afford to make a political statement by having a spare car plugged in all the time. Make the grocery runs, go to work, if it’s in range...every other day, maybe...or buy two. Gotta haul stuff or multiple passengers, take the real car.
That’s not very far for us in Montana. That’s just a visit to the nearest neighbor and back.
As an engineer I can attest to the Volt being a coal fired vehicle operating with less than half of the energy efficiency of a 19th century steam engine.
We once planned to get flaming drunk at Buffalo Bill’s grave, but weather shut us down. Got drunk at the golf course, instead. We were a sight to behold the next day. What’d you do tech school for? That woulda been about the first year for F-4s. Was there in late ‘81. F-4D WCS.
And with a 36 mile round-trip commute in uncertain traffic, and no recharging facilities available at work. (and not likely in my lifetime)... Volt is not an option. Well, I wouldn’t consider a GM anyway unless and until they’re no-longer government run motors. Given that the government’s stake in them is about 70 billion now, and the GM’s top market cap was what, 52 billion about 10 years ago, the government will never get out of GM. So GM is dead to me as a car/truck option.
41 grand? my friend just bought a 2010 BMW 535i for $45,000..
I REFUSE to allow one of these jokes to plug into my place of business.
Why should I pay for the electricity of someone’s bad car choice.
I predict we will start to see signs that say “no electric car plug ins”
(any photoshop people out there?)
Ban the electric car mooching!!!!
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