I HOPE IT COME OUT WITH SOME GOOD RESULTS.

I can only hope GM told the oil barons to kiss their ass, and develop this car with a vengeance. Its to much of a coincidence that these big automakers flash us great ideas and never follow through giving any and every lame excuse they can sweep up, when smaller companies like Phoenix motor car, Tesla, and even a few schools come up with cars that are practical, worth selling, and have a legitimate take on the environment.

I really like GM’s sense of urgency on the Volt’s development.

This could be a winner.

Winner my ass. They can’t even work out the ****ing kinks of combustion engines that have been around since the 70’s, and they’re going to develop a real-world plug-in?

We’ll see. In the interim we can call this bull**** until proven otherwise.

More proof that they’re really serious about this.

Deanster – chill. Toyota is doing the exact same thing 2 years later, these things are for real. GM has already had plug-ins..this one is just with lithium-ion

deantj: I said it could be a winner, not it is a winner.
we’ll see

GM engines are pretty good nowadays.. the real hiccup they had was the conversion to Dexcool where it would eventually erode the intake manifold gaskets, leak all out, and then engine goes bye-bye to those who don’t actually pay attention to the gauges in their car other than gas and speed. If GM can pull out the Volt at or before Toyota can pull out their new technology, they should stand to gain some pretty significant ground.

Toyota Has something new coming along? I guess that should be a given but Toyota has sunk some much time and money into Parallel Hybrids, it seem s rather unlikely that they will pull a Series Hybrid out anytime soon. I’d expect that from Honda, or Nissan, or even Suzuki maybe.

Besides Toyota is going to “make everything Hybrid” or rather that Toyota means to have a Hybrid version of all their cars in the near future. It is doubtful that they will be Parallel Hybrids. But I will not say it will not happen, it’s just unlikely at this point.

But GM will need more than one car to really make headway. Still this is a start… A good start? That has yet to be seen. While I,m drooling over the Challenger and the WRX (both on my short list of cars I want to at lest before I buy), I am absolutely ecstatic at the prospect of driving a VOLT. It’s something new.

Why do all manufacturers insist on making their hybrids look extremely bad? The Prius looks like a computer mouse. The Volt looks like something out of a “futuristic film” from the 1980s.

oh… and jackjimturkey: I still bet if this hideous thing rolled out with a Toyota badge on it, you wouldn’t be saying it could be winner.

The Volt is obviously a technology test bed. It’s far too ugly and radical looking to be mass seller. It is, however, radical enough to draw attention to it and GM.

GM will no doubt take what they learn from this vehicle and apply it to proper vehicles like the Malibu and Impala.

You call the MAlibu and Impala “proper” vehicles? Are you retarded?

The Impala is a crime against car-kind. The Zeta (or whatever) RWD platform still can’t make up for the fact that the baddest muscle car of the 1990’s was replaced by a Camry wanna-be. At least it looked like more fun.

The Malibu… No opinion. I’ll wait for the new one to ship first, but I will still not care much.

The volt looks not so good in pics, but I was impressed with it in person.

Lutz.

He produced Chrysler junk and then went to GM where he continues to trive on mediocrity.

But on weekends he gets to fly his own jet planes, let’s all keep buying his cars and paying for his planes.

Robcali: if this car came out witha toyota badge, I’d say it could be a winner. Just because I think toyotas are inferior, doesn’t mean I’d argue the POSSIBILITY of them making a good (or even great) car.
I an’t no hypocrite

Blakkar: it’s a crime to call anything V6 and FWD an Impala