[FenwickHockey65]

Then don't buy it. It's obvious you aren't even in the Volt's target market. In the meantime, the Volt is destroying its only competitor, the Nissan Leaf, in sales.

Every post you make just proves you don't understand what goes into engineering and producing a car. You think that GM can just start up a car on a production line as long as it rides the same platform as an existing product already being produced there? You still have to retool the entire assembly line to build a new product, it doesn't matter what platform it rides on. Furthermore, Volt is produced at Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly, a facility that builds the Buick Lucerne and Cadillac DTS, neither of which are Delta-II cars. The only other Delta-II car in the US, the Cruze, is built at Lordstown Assembly. So GM would've had to retool the assembly plant for the Volt no matter what platform they decided to use.

The concept DOES NOT WORK. I don't know what else I can do to pound this into your skull. Improving the concept would result with the production Volt due to the insane amount of aerodynamic changes that the concept would need.

You keep whining about how good a wedge shape would be. Let's look at an example.

The Corvette Z06 is what you're describing as a "wedge-shaped car." And it is VERY aerodynamic with a CD of .34. The Volt, on the other hand, has a CD of .26. The Volt's teardrop shape is simply more aerodynamic than a wedge shape.

Seriously, you're trying to play armchair engineer here. The Volt is arguably one of the most influential cars GM has ever built. The entire world had their eyes on GM as they developed and launched this car. If you honestly think that GM's sole motivation for redesigning the Volt from the original concept was simply a matter of cost and profit, then you're delusional.