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Originally Posted by motorhead
I thought this was a cool idea until I started looking at the numbers. One would have to be insane to buy this car. A 2011 ford fiesta well equipped cost around $20,000 and gets around 39MPG. Even if one was to run the volt on total electric and get the $8,000 dollar tax credit to purchase it, it would still cost $8,500 more in 5 years and that's including the saving to run on total electric which I highly doubt most people will be able to do unless they live in a city. That's also not including the extra interest for a larger loan payment over that five years. This car just doesn't add up. Plus one can drive a fiesta anywhere without the need for a plug and get the great MPG all the time. I'm starting to really go the other way with this volt the more I read about it.
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First let me say that I always find it funny the amount of Ford Pushing that goes on here.
I will follow that up with a... If a person was gonna buy a Volt... and the pricing or tech intimidated them.. Why would that person not buy the car the Volt is based on... the Chevy CRUZE ECO?? It is the same size and gets 42 MPG... over a Fiesta.. which is smaller than both.. and gets less fuel economy?
I'm a realist... and the Fiesta is UGLY to boot. The real alternative to the Volt is the Cruze.. simple as that, and I won'y hear anything different
