Volt Birth Watch 64: NHTSA Calls GM's Bluff
Volt Birth Watch 63: 360 Gas-Only Miles. Maybe.
Volt Birth Watch 62: "GM Readies Volt Unveiling to Shift Focus From Crisis"
Volt Birth Watch 61: WSJ Disses GM's Hail Mary
Volt Birth Watch 60: The EV1 is Dead. Get Over It.
Volt Birth Watch 59: Stretched Thin
Volt Birth Watch 58: "Notional Targets"
Volt Birth Watch 57: $40k and a Jackass
Volt Birth Watch 56: "I Would Say There's Almost No Reasonable Doubt in Our Minds Anymore That This is Going to Work"
Volt Birth Watch 55: $45k? 20-Mile EV Range? Huh?
Volt Birth Watch 54: Hype, Deconstructed
Volt Birth Watch 53: GM Wants More Tax Breaks
Volt Birth Watch 52: Wagoner's $30k Promise an "Unfortunate Misunderstanding"
Volt Birth Watch 51: Your Tax Money Hard at Work– for GM
Volt Birth Watch 50: $30k by 2010
Volt Birth Watch 49: Due Date Announced! Voila Paris?
Volt Birth Watch 45: "I Can Almost Say the Battery is the Least of Our Problems"
Volt Birth Watch 44: Batteries Won't Be Fully Ready by 2010
Volt Birth Watch 43: Death of the Fuel Cell? An EV is Born!
Volt Birth Watch 43: BusinessWeek Vs. WSJ in Hybrid Smackdown
Volt Birth Watch 42: It's a CAFE Conspiracy!
Volt Birth Watch 41: GM CEO Seeks Tax Break for Chinese Volt
Volt Birth Watch 40: Rust Never Sleeps
Volt Birth Watch 39: The Line Forms at the Rear
Volt Birth Watch 38: Sex, Lies and Videotape (well, Maybe Two Out of Three…)
Since Bob Lutz revealed the Volt concept that made the rounds at the auto shows is more aerodynamically efficient going backwards than forwards, we've known there was much work to be done in the wind tunnel (and no, we don't mean the marketing depatment). CBS auto beat reporter Jeff Gilbert got a look inside the Volt development center, and brings us some of the first images of a camouflaged one-third scale model of what just might be the production Volt. Gilbert doesn't think the model is "all that exciting," saying it looks like little more than a Pontiac G6 or (inexplicably) a Chevy Camaro. But lack of enthusiasm for the mock-up doesn't mean Gilbert won't regurgitate GM's lies marketing playbook verbatim, incredulously spouting such obvious untruths as the long-abandoned $30k pricetag. In fact the "GM wants to sell 100k Volts at $30k by 2010" pablum comes immediately after GM's chief engineer for hybrid electric vehicle programs refuses to say that things look good for the 2010 goal. "Well, it's very clear what our target is, and leadership has asked us 'what do you need to make it happen?' and we have not been turned down once," says the sultan of sliderules. Gosh, that sounds like the development process of every $30k car, doesn't it?
Volt Birth Watch 35: GM Employees to Be Volt Guinea Pigs
Volt Birth Watch 34: Lutz Gives Up on a $30K Volt
Volt Birth Watch 33: Horsing Around With the Batteries
Volt Birth Watch 32: How Much Will It Cost Now?
Volt Birth Watch 31: Born on the Fourth of July?
Volt Birth Watch 29: A Pretty Re-Volting Ad
And you thought the Lincoln ads were bad. The video clip is not a fake; it's actually an ad Chevy is running late at night on some cable channels. I could make all kinds of comments here, but I'll leave that to you readers. If anyone could explain to me what it has to do with selling a gas-electric hybrid car, I'd appreciate it.
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