Volt Birth Watch 148: The End of the Beginning?
Published: June 25th, 2009
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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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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.