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Originally Posted by Dragoneye
People also need to understand that the car was NOT.....
...NOT...
...designed to save you money.
It was designed to make a few different statements about electric cars, and about GM in general. It was also designed because there is a significant amount of people who are interested in buying this car. And honestly, $350 a month is not too much more than what most of us here are paying for Camaros (in some cases it's less!!)....so I'm not seeing why its so insane to buy a very well-equipped car if you've got the money.
If you're on a budget -- get a Cruze, that's who it was designed for. and 42 on the highway ain't too shabby.
Different markets, people. We can compare the Volt to a cheap econobox all day and call it 'insane'...but then we may as well compare the Camaro to the prius and call it a stupid choice, as well.  |
This is the kind of thinking that has helped to put us were we are to today. Your statement if correct makes no sense at all. I not saying this to attack you ,but as someone that's been in business for a very long time and can see when someone is being buffaloed. If this car wasn't designed to save people money then what good is it? That's how they are advertising it to the public. Unlike the corvette which does live up to it price by providing what it is advertised to do for a fare cost. The volt has one purpose to save fuel. It does that ,but not at an overall savings to the customer. Sorry but real people aren't going to buy into the idea of owning one as a status symbol which to me is all your talking about. If that's why they built then well, they really screwed up in my book.
That would be like saying" well we're coming out with a new corvette. It's going to look good but have a 50hp motor and cost $200,000." This is what we have in the volt right now. I'll tell you what, I'll let all you believers and suckers buy them for now and let you pay for the R&D that will end up producing a car that makes sense for those of us that really want a car to save us money and not just be a status symbol.