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Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65
Then don't! I don't understand why some of you are constantly trying to talk down the car if you're not even interested in it. If you don't like the car then don't buy it, simple as that. Nobody's holding a gun to your held and trying to get you to buy the car.
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So your answer is "if you don't like it, shut up"...sounds like a majority political party's rhetoric. I don't think it will be uber successful because it's not economically smart to do so at the moment. The "defense" of an economically disadvantaged vehicle seems rather backwards to me.
I simply don't want GM to get damaged on technology that IMO isn't ready to be economically feasible to stand by itself without crutches. What if the Volt DOES flop? I don't see any contingency plans for that. GM's had success with the Camaro and Equinox, but with the Volt, I'm not seeing people talking about them positively outside of this thread. I'm simply not. The thing I've heard most often from people is "$41K for that?"...what signal does that send?
Truthfully, when you buy gas, or milk, or anything like that, does COST ever figure into it? At all? All other things being equal, to most consumers, PRICE IS KING! You can't get people to buy something they don't really want. You only see subsidies when people aren't demanding a product. If people were falling all over themselves to get the Volt/Leaf/et al, then subsidies would NOT be part of the equation.
And it's true that nobody's making me buy the car...YET. But if you get an opinion, so do I. You may disagree with it, but it's still my opinion.