Get ready, Chevy Volt due this November. Update!!!

[Ghoste]

Actually let me change that to taxation WITHOUT representation.  THAT was the part that really got them.

[JB400]

If this thread ain't going to last much longer, maybe the Volt won't last long either.   Now that I think about it, I wonder what the Europeans think about this car?  It don't have much fanfare here, but they have higher fuel prices over there.
It's hard not to bring politics in on this car considering the circumstances.  I wonder how much opposition the Beetle got when it was introduced?  Not everyone in Germany was a Nazi.

[1969chargerrtse]

Dino except for insulting my wonderful thread.  Your  comments fit this thread dead on.

" Life is a bit more complicated than this, people just like to bitch about everything under the sun.Seriously, you guys should not be discussing these things as you do because none of you are talking facts.  Just speculation, wishful thinking and a lot of bs."

Some people here have  way to much free time.

[Dino]

Actually let me change that to taxation WITHOUT representation.  THAT was the part that really got them.

You are absolutely correct.  But those times are long gone.  People need to look at the big picture and know a bit of their history.  It really puts things in perspective.

[Dino]

Dino except for insulting my wonderful thread.  Your  comments fit this thread dead on.

" Life is a bit more complicated than this, people just like to bitch about everything under the sun.Seriously, you guys should not be discussing these things as you do because none of you are talking facts.  Just speculation, wishful thinking and a lot of bs."

Some people here have  way to much free time.

LOL, sorry for insulting your thread Rob, nothing personal, it's just not going anywhere.

[Ghoste]

It hasn't for a very long time.



(sorry)

[Indygenerallee]

Last thing we need is more taxes... Roads will get built but not when there are 5 work crews milking a job that could be done in 3 months instead of one year or more!!! I know how the system works... Too many people are blind to the fact or just denies the problem exists that's why this country is in the shape it is!!

[JB400]

All raising taxes does is put more money in the pocket books of politicans and their goonies.  

I'm sorry if you feel insulted.  Personally, I'm just insulting the car.  And yes, I have a lot of free time because my job has a lot of down time.  Unfortunately, it rained this morning so I can't go fishing.  Rained quite abit lately, making up for July and August I guess.

Now tell me,  why does this car need 3 different shades of white?  Are they going Martha Stewart on this thing or what?

Here's your color palette         black, blue topaz metallic, crystal red, cyber gray, silver ice, Viridian Joule=white,  white diamond, summit white.

Here's something odd, interior       jet black (cloth, leather), Light neutral leather =tan,  jet black/spice red, jet black/green,  jet black/ceramic white.

Who'd put green in a car these days, especially when you can't get it painted green?

[Indygenerallee]

For the women because any man caught driving one these Volt's would have to be pussywhipped in to getting the damn thing in the first place.

[1969chargerrtse]

Dino except for insulting my wonderful thread.  Your  comments fit this thread dead on.

" Life is a bit more complicated than this, people just like to bitch about everything under the sun.Seriously, you guys should not be discussing these things as you do because none of you are talking facts.  Just speculation, wishful thinking and a lot of bs."

Some people here have  way to much free time.

LOL, sorry for insulting your thread Rob, nothing personal, it's just not going anywhere.

Yeah its basically done for me. It started out as saying the Volt was due out soon, and so it was.

[TheGhost]

Your video is blocked here in the US>

Seriously?

Yes

Crikey, I thought you lived in a free country.

So did we.

[1974dodgecharger]

For the women because any man caught driving one these Volt's would have to be pussywhipped in to getting the damn thing in the first place.

FCK YEAH!!!!!!

Then again Bill Gates drove a prius....(all for show though)

[JB400]

For the women because any man caught driving one these Volt's would have to be pussywhipped in to getting the damn thing in the first place.

Does that mean your missus has her order in then?

[Fred]

Still, as long as we can afford to pay them (taxes), we're still heaps better off than the poor sods living in the 3rd world countries. How some of them manage to eke out an existence is beyond me. I consider myself extremely fortunate that I've had the opportunity to earn a decent living in this great country of ours (even if it is steadily going down the gurgler) over the years and am able to enjoy the little luxuries I worked hard for.

It is what it is and all the whinging in the world won't change it, not until our governments  wake up to the fact that contrary to their beliefs, money doesn't grow on trees and can better learn to manage what they so easily reap and not squander it so readily will there be any change for the better.

And I think that's called "wishfull thinking" on my part.

[Fred]

Oh, and it at least we still have some rights as human beings unlike a lot of other places I cound name..

[Mytur Binsdirti]

Now that I think about it, I wonder what the Europeans think about this car?      

From what I understand, over 50% of the cars sold in Europe are diesel powered.  That tells you something right there.

[1969chargerrtse]

Not bad for a flop.
From The Christian science monitor.


" Chevy Volt outsells half of all US cars.
Chevy Volt sales figures this year are higher than roughly half of the 260 or so car models sold in the US."

[JB400]

A turd is still a turd no matter how much you polish it.

[Indygenerallee]

A turd is still a turd no matter how much you polish it.

Amen brother!

[ACUDANUT]

Now that I think about it, I wonder what the Europeans think about this car?     

From what I understand, over 50% of the cars sold in Europe are diesel powered.  That tells you something right there.

We have the EPA here to deal with and they think Diesels are killing us.

[JB400]

Fried food is going to kill us one way or another.   

[Ghoste]

I think do-gooders are killing me.

[JB400]

Well, since the Volt is beloved, does anyone think Dodge ought to join the market with something like this?

http://www.carstyling.ru/en/car/2008_dodge_zeo/

[Ghoste]

`With batteries, no.  As a styling exercise or an experiment to appease the green lobby, maybe.

[JB400]

I'd lose the battery only function, and make it a hybrid about like Ford has done.  In my opinion, Ford has the best hybrid system.