Ahead of schedule and under budget? Maybe this one will come down to door closing sounds. So why the flashback to the concept bait-and-switch? If the Volt’s butterfly-into-larvae morph doesn’t remind folks of the Old, Bad GM, what will? Ask Farah for yourself at his Live Chat Confessional, 4 pm Eastern, at Fastlane.
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OK, I admit that I like the look better than a Prius. And we’ve pounded them for years for not “sweating the details”, so give them some credit for trying to do that.
In spite of their new Government Overlords I hope they succeed in making a viable car. I’m sure there are some bright, hard-working, well-meaning people trying to make this thing fly.
But really, this whole thing makes a lottery ticket look like a sure bet from where I sit…
Samuel L. Bronkowitz :
June 25th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
OK, I admit that I like the look better than a Prius. And we’ve pounded them for years for not “sweating the details”, so give them some credit for trying to do that.
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1) No, thin air doesn’t look better than a Prius. Let’s compare production Volt to production Prius please.
2) How can one claim something is “ahead of schedule and under budget?” I mean, the product has to roll down the production line before you can claim that, right?
wsn,
Things that are not yet complete can be “ahead of schedule and under budget.” Of course, at any time before project completion, that can change.
And it’s possible to change the project so as to pretend one is ahead of schedule and/or under budget but it’s not the same project, so the comparison is invalide.
And the original project plan could have been a series of deliberate overestimations and SWAGs, so, who knows?
They are voting on “Cap and Trade” tomorrow. If I read this correctly they estimate it will raise electricity prices by over 90% in a few years.
Kinds of destroys the business case for plug in electrics doesn’t it?
Bill Wade, “Kinds of destroys the business case for plug in electrics doesn’t it?”
To say nothing of destroying the business case for doing anything else in a country so monumentally stupid as to assess itself such an economy-destroying tax at all, let alone in the middle of a recession.
Holy Moley! It looks like a Prius with a bow tie prow! I didn’t see that coming.
If electricity gets 90% more expensive than what do you think will happen to gas?
The pre-production concept was great looking. The design was lost in translation/cost cutting. The side mirrors: cheap black oversized plastic for example. The creases are softened, the hood redesigned, and a giant ugly hood covering the charging port.