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Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65
If you honestly think that I believe everything GM does is golden, then you don't know me at all. I still shake my head at a LOT of stupid decisions GM makes.
That said, the production Volt is the best car GM could have produced from the Voltec program. There is no questioning that. Whine all you want, the concept was and still is a brick, and no amount of improvements could have made it come close to performing as well the production version.
And again, just because you don't need to carry extra passengers with you doesn't mean that goes for everyone. That's exactly why I despise discussing cars like this on this website, the only thing people here care about is RWD, a V8, and going fast. Guess what? The vast majority of Americans could not give two sh*ts how fast a car can go, they want a comfortable, functional, fuel efficient car. If you see that as wrong, then that's your own damn problem, not GM's.
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Wow...
To say: "Whine all you want, the concept was and still is a brick, and no amount of improvements could have made it come close to performing as well the production version".
That is like saying GM engineers are idiots and could not improve on a cool design. I disagree...with more time and more money...well, anything is possible. To keep repeating "Brick"....C'mon, they could have improved the Concept wedge design....they just choose to place it on a platform that didn't need retooling or remachining in their factories....something easier and cheaper. If we all played it safe there would be no world records....no best of...no awards....no recocognition...everything would be sub-par. I don't care how fast a car goes. I care about how it looks and its performance.
The problem of what I buy is not
my problem its GM's and every car manufacturer's problem. They must figure out what I
will buy and it won't be the average looking, Asian copied design, Chevy VOLT!