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From: nm5k on 9 Aug 2010 12:00
On Aug 8, 11:16 pm, john <johngd...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> "So you think the Chevrolet Volt electric car will cost too much? Tell
> that to the Chevy dealer who has already decided to charge $20,000
> over the sticker price.
>
> That's right. Months before the first Volt lands on a showroom floor,
> there's enough excitement that the dealer -- who earns a living
> calculating what the market will bear -- is charging nearly 50% more
> than General Motors' asking price for the revolutionary car.
>
> If that's any yardstick, the 2011 Volt is drastically underpriced.
> Supply and demand, baby. It's the free enterprise system."
>

I wouldn't buy one at half price.. The 40 mile wonder.. :/
Doesn't go far enough to do me any good..
I really don't see how they will sell very many of them.
A few moovee stars and tree huggers might buy a few,
but for the general driver they strike me as a fairly
useless vehicle. And you gotta plug them doggies in
somewhere.

From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 9 Aug 2010 12:30
On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:52:35 -0700, Michelle Steiner wrote:

> In article <%cV7o.942$co1.369(a)newsfe11.iad>,
> Hachiroku ハチロク <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote:
>
>> The owner of that dealership must be a Republican. Or, maybe just a
>> hypocrite Democrat along the liines of Rangle, Kerry, Gore, et al.
>
> So which Democrats aren't hypocrites, in your opinion?


I'm sure there must be one or two. Nancy Pelosi, perhaps?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

From: nm5k on 9 Aug 2010 14:03
On Aug 9, 11:08 am, Michelle Steiner <miche...(a)michelle.org> wrote:
> In article
> <006c9584-3690-4fdf-bd4b-ab63431a9...(a)l20g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
>
>  n...(a)wt.net wrote:
> > I wouldn't buy one at half price.. The 40 mile wonder..  :/
> > Doesn't go far enough to do me any good..
>
> That's 40 miles on just the initial battery charge; after that, the
> gasoline motor kicks in to recharge the battery, and you'll keep going for
> so long as there is gas in the tank.  And when the tank runs low, you
> simply put more gas in it.
>
> It's not like the Nissan Leaf, which is battery only.

It's still fairly useless to me. I'd be running off the gas
engine more than the electric motor.
I'll stick with the dinky gas or diesel cars..
From: Peter Granzeau on 9 Aug 2010 20:41
>"If they want GM to give the car away, they should stop complaining about government ownership."

One might hazard a wager that not a single person who complains of
government owneership also wants GM to give the Volt away.
From: homey on 10 Aug 2010 00:19
On 8/9/2010 12:16 AM, john wrote:
> "So you think the Chevrolet Volt electric car will cost too much? Tell
> that to the Chevy dealer who has already decided to charge $20,000
> over the sticker price.
>
> That's right. Months before the first Volt lands on a showroom floor,
> there's enough excitement that the dealer -- who earns a living
> calculating what the market will bear -- is charging nearly 50% more
> than General Motors' asking price for the revolutionary car.

VW did that with the new BUG and Toyota would too if they made anything
worth buying. Doesn't last long for any of them.
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