Yes, if course we are talking about the uber fashionable and rarely purchased Chevy Meltdown, er, Volt
(MSNBC) It’s been a tough year for the Chevrolet Volt, General Motors’ once-celebrated plug-in hybrid. But perhaps it’s about to see its fortunes turn as a jury of Continental motoring journalists declare Volt and its Opel Ampera sibling the European Car of the year.
That victory comes 14 months after the Volt took North American Car of the Year honors –but, oh, how much has happened in-between. Just last week, GM announced it will shut down production of Volt and Ampera for five weeks due to excess inventory, a problem exacerbated by reports that several Volt battery packs caught fire after U.S. crash tests.
Let me run a few names by you (doing this on my Droid phone, so no bullet list) : 1980 Chevy Citation. 1983 Renault Alliance. 1976 Plymouth Volare. 1974 Ford Mustang II. Chrysler Cirrus. Oh, and how about the 1999 Volkswagen Beetle, a car reviewers called a car that was better to be seen in than to drive? Or the 2001 PT Cruiser? Like all the aforementioned vehicles, it was named a Car Of The Year. 2001 was also the year that the Prius was introduced around the world (NHW11 model). No one was giving it car of the year awards. Though, it did come in 3rd for the European award that year.
Verum Serum is highly amused at the award, considering they can’t sell them.
Ummmm, why not fire them since they are not working… or, I don’t know.. put them to work building something else faster, like.. say.. your Ford Trucks that way you can sell them cheaper?!??!
Yeah, ONE too many.
Meaning, there are only 500 to sell. And those won’t be sold off till next Christmas.
No matter how many times you start and stop production, and then TELL US ABOUT IT, we still won’t buy the stupid overpriced 9-volt. If it won’t sell, DON’T MAKE IT!!
Which should tell someone at GM something. But then, they’ve never run a car company before and those that did, drove it in to bankruptcy and were fired. So there.
Wait, are you telling me you don’t want a Volt?
I wonder when Obama will make them “free” as a health necessity.
Isn’t not buying one part of national commerce? Thus affecting commerce? Thus meaning we then have to buy one?
Isn’t it for the good of our kid’s health? Isn’t it a national security issue? Doesn’t it affect our nation’s dependence upon foreign oil?
If we just forced everyone to buy a volt, then we wouldn’t have to worry about oil any longer. We could be an oil-free world if all of America bought a Volt.
Just think of how much cheaper products could be if we didn’t have to pay to fill up those diesel transport trucks. Just think how much faster, cheaper, and more efficient products would be if those nasty polluting NMBY trains were done away with. All of that area could be returned back to mother nature. mmmmm
Then, we could get rid of commercial river traffic and end pollution of our river systems.
All thanks to the car of the year.. I mean FUTURE.
This new non-commerce commerce has unlimited possibilities!!!!!!1!!1!!!!!11!!!!!
And when the O admin makes just that case, I know who I’m looking for in order to Blame
aww damn.
Many people, except Obama and Pelosi, just don’t realize how much positive economic activity is stimulated by the billions invested into enterprises that will fail. See, they only fail in the traditional sense of the term. Making a profit is not a positive result anymore so, just as unemployment checks boost the economy; so do large, spent business investments like Solyndra and the Volt. The money might be gone, but it was stimulating while it lasted. Now go take a shower while Barry replaces the batteries.
Whew! Are you British, W.C.? Because that is such dry sarcasm that it is worthy of the best Brits. Compliment. Had to read it a few times.