Thread: Volt Revealed!
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Old 09-08-2008, 11:07 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65 View Post
OKAY.

FOR THE LAST TIME...

The Volt concept was as aerodynamic as a brick. If it went into production, its electric-only range would be much, much lower due to all the drag and wind resistance.

So A) Water down a concept, still have it look great, and get 40+ miles without gas...or B) Keep the concept, have a massive drag coefficient, watch the car's electric-only range drop massively, and have it fail horribly sales-wise.

Come on people. Open your eyes.
So your saying its ok to produce a concept that looks like a corvette but the production car is actually a GEO? Come On, a little tweak here and a little tweak there, here a tweak there a tweak... i think gm could have done alot better with this.
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