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Originally Posted by John@AutoAgenda
No one wants the car to fail, the American public is sick and tired of being treated like a bunch of dumb sheep and are awake to what's going on here. I just rented a new Ford Focus which retails for around $20k that got 42mpg and did not require government subsidized rebates to get someone to buy it and gets the same if not better mpg then a Volt, nor did Ford take a bailout.
The market NOT the government determines if a car is going to be successful and you are seeing exactly what happens when someone produces something no one wants for a price twice what you can get something comparable that's WAY less complicated.
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BINGO! The problem with the Volt is all the cars hitting the roads that get get 40 plus MPG on the highway. Car and Driver did a comparo of the Volt and Cruze Eco a couple months back. In the city a fully charged volt of course ruled the roost, but on the highway the Cruze got something like 4MPG BETTER than the volt. For a lot of America, unlike Europe, the highway mileage a car can get is far more important than what it will get roving around a city.