I also doubt the glass detail will make it — they’ll never be able to manufacture it cheaply enough — cost, NVH, and security. No matter how much the feds kick in, the car will already be well out of reach pricewise for anyone who might be willing to buy a high tech car from the bowtie folks.

If they can’t do the glass, they shouldn’t fake it with glued-on black or carbon fiber gimmickry, because, no matter what materials were used, it would look like glued-on plastic crap from a distance. Simpler is better — remember all the plastic accretions Pontiac bodies accumulated prior to Lutz?

I too fail to understand the anti-Prius comments. The Prius exterior is a work of art. It’s an purposeful anime car with perfect lines and the most distinctive, evocative (of high tech) rear end on the road. GM would be lucky to have a car with such well-integrated exterior design.

That glass detail over the doors is going to become a carbon fiber detail if anything stays at all. With GM’s cost cutting machine I bet it wont be real carbon fiber, or maybe they will make that an option or something for a upped trim package.

That popped out rear wheel does look strang and a tad out of scale and it does nothing for drag, I don’t see them doing, nor should they this isn’t a muscle car. And as you said the greenhouse is going to be more traditional and not chopped like it shown, again for aerodynamics. Glass roof will probably be an expensive option or that upped trim package like I mentioned, like a green SS.

Nice job though, I like yours better then what will probably come out. I would buy yours except for the bow tie thing in the front, but you could airbrush that out like they airbrush flaws out of the Playboy centerfold.

Also, why the hate with the Toyota Prius? I think it looks great.

Frankly, I think the Volt will have to lose some of its “wow” factor in terms of features and equipment just to keep the cost closer to the [now obliterated] $25k price target.

But I think the Chevy grille must extend to the base of the front bumper.

And it’s so wide in the back that it looks kinda cartoonish. Maybe if the width increase is progessive that impression is reduced.

I like it more than the Prius

I have problems with what appears to be the rear wheels stuck out further than the front wheels.