MotorTrend drives the Volt

*Mr. Wyndham* · 01-02-2010, 10:27 PM

The video is a little dry...but there's lots of information to be learned about this car in it.

For example, the car has a tutorial mode? So cool!

nickmccally · 01-02-2010, 11:01 PM

You won't catch me dead driving a grandma mobile like that.. but the amazing technology it uses.. c'mon lets get something like the telsa from Ford and Chevy

FenwickHockey65 · 01-02-2010, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by nickmccally

You won't catch me dead driving a grandma mobile like that.. but the amazing technology it uses.. c'mon lets get something like the telsa from Ford and Chevy

Grandma mobile?

You've obviously never seen the video of Andrew Farah pushing the Volt around the parking lot at Dodger Stadium.

Frank in MD · 01-02-2010, 11:12 PM

This is going to be the single most important new product for GM.

nester7929 · 01-02-2010, 11:21 PM

I hope they sell ten million of these things.

2LTRS · 01-02-2010, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Rockmont

This is going to be the single most important new product for GM.

Maybe true... but I see this as a tree-hugging-hippie-mobile. I'll pass and enjoy my V6 gas mileage.

meanmike · 01-02-2010, 11:23 PM

I still wish it looked like the original design, it look's just like the Turdyota and the Honda.

FenwickHockey65 · 01-02-2010, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by meanmike

I still wish it looked like the original design, it look's just like the Turdyota and the Honda.

The concept was about as aerodynamic as a brick.

*Mr. Wyndham* · 01-02-2010, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by 2LTRS

Maybe true... but I see this as a tree-hugging-hippie-mobile.

If it helps its image any...Bob Lutz, the mastermind behind it...thinks Global warming is, and I quote, "a crock of shit". He has also stated that his intentions for this car were to reduce, if not totally eliminate, our dependency on foreign oil...not "save the planet".

That's how I look at the car. A new direction for the automobile...that just happens to appease the tree-huggers...maybe they'll put a 2-seat sports car on the E-flex chassis one of these days...who knows, but it's possible!

FenwickHockey65 · 01-02-2010, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Dragoneye

If it helps its image any...Bob Lutz, the mastermind behind it...thinks Global warming is, and I quote, "a crock of shit". He has also stated that his intentions for this car were to reduce, if not totally eliminate, our dependency on foreign oil...not "save the planet".

That's how I look at the car. A new direction for the automobile...that just happens to appease the tree-huggers...maybe they'll put a 2-seat sports car on the E-flex chassis one of these days...who knows, but it's possible!

I believe it was also Lutz who said they weren't ruling out the possibility of a performance-oriented Volt.

Oh, and the same technology went into this...

And that is definitely not a grandma mobile, nor is it a tree-hugging hippie mobile.

meanmike · 01-02-2010, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65

The concept was about as aerodynamic as a brick.

Ok, but they could have done something a bit different. I will say it is still more appealing than the other two though.

meanmike · 01-02-2010, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65

I believe it was also Lutz who said they weren't ruling out the possibility of a performance-oriented Volt.

Oh, and the same technology went into this...

And that is definitely not a grandma mobile, nor is it a tree-hugging hippie mobile.

This is what the Volt should look like.

*Mr. Wyndham* · 01-02-2010, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by meanmike

This is what the Volt should look like.

But the Volt is a Chevy...and that looks like a Cadillac...supposedly they're pursuing that car, however -- and the concept-to-production transformation will be of Camaro proportions...which means the Volt, er, Converj...WILL look like that...which is damn exciting.

2LTRS · 01-02-2010, 11:36 PM

If they made the volt look like that caddy I'd buy one. But to me the volt looks like a civic/acura TL hybrid built by chevy.

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