Report: GM may kill Chevy Volt, Sonic and four other cars

Yahoo Finance ^ | July 22,2017

[Hojczyk]

General Motors has put six of its cars under review, including its once breakthrough Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, and is evaluating whether to cancel them in the coming years, according to a report from Reuters. The news comes as sales of cars continue to plummet in the U.S. and as consumers increasingly turn to SUVs and pickups.

Besides the Chevrolet Volt hybrid, other vehicles believed to be under consideration for elimination iinclude the Buick LaCrosse, Cadillac CT6, Cadillac XTS, Chevrolet Impala and Chevrolet Sonic, according to Reuters. GM spokesman Jim Cain declined to comment on the report. UAW President Dennis Williams said Thursday the union is in ongoing discussions

[Hojczyk]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2017/07/22/report-gm-may-kill-chevy-volt-sonic-and-four-other-cars/501798001/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatodaycommoney-topstories

[Obadiah]

Can I get my billions of tax dollars back?

[Rapscallion]

is evaluating whether to cancel them in the coming years

Just what happened in the past.

[Rapscallion]

is evaluating whether to cancel them in the coming years

Just what happened in the past.

[Eddie01]

bullshit

[Vaquero]

I saw a Chevy volt once.....once

[blueunicorn6]

Maybe GM can borrow some money from Puerto Rico.

[jazusamo]

Bambam took a spin in a Chevy Volt, of course he wasn’t driving it because it was still on the assembly line.

[doorgunner69]

No one but the gubmint buying that oversized golf cart? What a shock. Never saw on in the wild, even those Datsun Leaf things are very rare.

[blueunicorn6]

oh oh.

They’ve run out of taxpayer money.

Take up a collection at the UAW meetings! That’s where the money is!

[crz]

What a total friggan joke this once great company has become.

They couldnt even make a good wheelbarrow now.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

I’m as disgusted with the bailouts as most Freepers, but if GM goes under then the US will have one major automaker left. I don’t want to see that happen especially after Trump was elected, so I might be tempted to give them another chance.

[TheBattman]

I’ve seen a few of them here in NW Arkansas, but in the electric/hybrid market, there are so many better choices.

But I am pretty set against electric/hybrids as long as taxpayers have to continue to subsidize their manufacture/purchase.

[Fiddlstix]

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[umgud]

I suspect Trump is cutting the free gov’t money. I hear he is going to do the same for wind and solar.

[TheBattman]

How many bailouts should taxpayers provide? I suggest that ZERO is the proper answer. Otherwise, taxpayers should rescue ALL companies, even when their demise comes because of their own poor decisions.

And yes, I understand that we are losing US industries - it concerns me too.

[Seaplaner]

I saw a Chevy volt once.....once

You see them occasionally (on the side of the road.)

[Vaquero]

I buy American cars. But not Government Motors. Not till they’re not government motors, any more.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

How many bailouts should taxpayers provide? I suggest that ZERO is the proper answer. Otherwise, taxpayers should rescue ALL companies, even when their demise comes because of their own poor decisions.

I'm not suggesting another bailout. I'm not suggesting anything more than being willing to consider buying a GM again.