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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.
From: hls on 10 Aug 2010 09:32

"homey" <homey(a)HotishMail.com> wrote in message news:Zvmdnf-
> 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.

VW did that in Houston around the time of the oil embargo, I guess around
the early 70's.

People were already in a heap of trouble, and then for them to increase the
cost of a VW was not appreciated at all. I dont know how many people
alive today remember this, but certainly havent forgotten their behavior.
From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 10 Aug 2010 15:37
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:45 -0400, homey wrote:

> 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.

Toyota has made cars "worth buying", and dealers have charged over sticker.
One of the more recent examples I can think of was the 1991 MR2. "ADMU"
(Additional Dealer Mark Up, a dealer's "fee" for actually having a car on
the lot) was $1700. Prius' were going for $2500 or more over MSRP.


Ooops...sorry for shooting your post full of holes.

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