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Title: GM expands Chevrolet Volt orders to all 50 states, lowers price
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Detroit Free Press
URL Source: http://www.freep.com/article/201106 ... tates-lowers-price?odyssey=tab
Published: Jun 10, 2011
Author: Chrissie Thompson
Post Date: 2011-06-10 19:38:31 by Dakmar
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Views: 316
Comments: 21
General Motors opened up orders for the Chevrolet Volt to all 50 states today, lowering the base price for the 2012 model by about $1,000 and adding four option packages. The 2012 Volt will start at $39,995, including delivery, and customers may be eligible for a $7,500 federal tax credit. GM was able to lower the base price because the car has more optional content now that it's available nationally, the automaker said today in a statement. The 2011 Volt had been available in eight states and Washington, D.C., and only had three option packages. GM is expanding Volt ordering as it prepares to add two shifts worth 2,500 jobs to the Detroit-Hamtramck plant that builds the car. Volt engineers are seeking to cut the car's cost through powertrain and production improvements, which will mostly be used to make the car profitable, rather than slash the price for consumers. GM plans this year to build 16,000 of the Volt and its European version, the Opel Ampera. That includes about 3,500 for overseas delivery and 2,500 as demos at dealerships. Next year, GM plans to build 60,000 Volts at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant, with 45,000 designated for the U.S. Detroit-Hamtramck this spring discontinued its other two cars, the Cadillac DTS and Buick Lucerne, leaving it free to build just Volts until the 2013 Malibu starts production next year. The factory will also assemble the next-generation Chevrolet Impala, expected to start production by 2013. The plant is in a four-week shutdown to update for Volt and Malibu production. After it restarts, the factory will start adding the second shift of workers, with the third to start at an undisclosed future date.
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#1. To: Dakmar (#0)
Seriously? Who is going to drop $40K for this........ " If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
Someone who gets off on gaming the system? Someone who cares more about looking environmentally friendly than actually walking the walk and buying a $15,000 Fiesta that gets 45 mpg? Where's the snob appeal in that? God...poor people can afford those! And you don't even get any government money to buy one.
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
For the same price a person can get a Ford F-150 King Ranch with the EcoBoost V- 6: a much more practical vehicle if you've got that kind of change to burn.
__________________________________________________________ If it is backed by the US government just like the government giving away all kinds of freebies for a clunker and guaranteed loans, I am in. The USD value is proof positive of my optimism for the future.
"In a free society we're supposed to know the truth," ... "In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it" -- Ron Paul, circa 2010-12-02
47.9 mpg in Merrye Olde Englande and that's the uber hot-rod version. The eco-version gets 76.3 mpg
__________________________________________________________ To be fair, that's probably imperial gallons, which is larger than a US gallon. Point taken though, as the Eco version is not being sold here, which would probably get at least 60 US mpg. I read somewhere that it would be too expensive to import them from Europe, although I think they are also built in Mexico. In other words, screw you, US citizen, we need your tax dollars to fight Israels War for Territorial Expansion.
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
lol.......Sheesh, a used VW diesel will get you 45 mpg in town and 60 on the freeway and run for at least 300k miles.
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
If you need to go snobby a really nice used Lexus is well under $40K......... That Volt has very little appeal to it.
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
Thats not a Volt. It's got a Ford logo on the grille.
Where's your General Erwin Rommel Edition VW Thing?? __________________________________________________________ Hmmmmmmmm........I pulled it from the Chevy Volt website. Oh, I went back to http://gm-volt.com/ There was an article about the new Ford Hybrid, but initially it was just an image and I didn't hang around long enough for an article to load. Let me find this Volt... Hmmmmmmmmmm.......still doesn't look worth even $30K to me, but it does look a little better than the Ford. LOL! : )
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
In the garage......should we make her into an ELECTRIC THING and then paint her pink camo? : )
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
Sorry All!! I dropped the image of the Ford Hybrid that I pulled from the Volt site......DOH!!
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
Leave it to the FuckTards at Goobermunt Motors... Here's a clue, if it's got an internal combustion engine in it, it's not an electric vehicle.
lol!
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
If GM priced their SUVs the same way they priced the Volt, a Chevy Eqiunox would have a base price approaching a million dollars. That being said, the Volt is an extraordinarily unremarkable series hybrid vehicle. What you get is all the downside of gas vehicles, with almost none of the benefits of pure electrics, in a very complicated and unreliable package. Long story short, hybrids suck. They're like those "miracle" all-in-one tools that don't do anything worth a shit. Either build gas cars or build electrics, screw hybrids, they're a dead end. __________________________________________________________ Oh my! That's HOT pink. What do you think of this Zebra Thing? SWEET!! : )
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
Ted Nugent-style, I'd roll it.
__________________________________________________________ Car and Driver gave the Volt the 2011 Car of The Year Award. Everyone knows it was a political award. Very few Volts have sold. Plus, it has to be plugged in constantly, with dismal driving range.
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
#2. To: abraxas (#1)
Seriously? Who is going to drop $40K for this........
#3. To: abraxas (#1)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#4. To: abraxas (#1)
Seriously? Who is going to drop $40K for this........
#5. To: Dakmar (#2)
$15,000 Fiesta that gets 45 mpg?
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#6. To: X-15 (#5)
(Edited)
47.9 mpg in Merrye Olde Englande
#7. To: Dakmar (#2)
Where's the snob appeal in that?
#8. To: X-15 (#3)
(Edited)
#9. To: abraxas (#1)
Seriously? Who is going to drop $40K for this.......
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936 2011)
#10. To: abraxas (#7)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#11. To: Esso (#9)
#12. To: X-15 (#10)
Where's your General Erwin Rommel Edition VW Thing??
#13. To: All (#1)
#14. To: abraxas (#11)
The Volt is an electric vehicle that goes further.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936 2011)
#15. To: abraxas (#1)
Seriously? Who is going to drop $40K for this........
#16. To: TwentyTwelve (#15)
#17. To: abraxas (#11)
(Edited)
still doesn't look worth even $30K to me
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936 2011)
#18. To: abraxas (#12)
an ELECTRIC THING and then paint her pink camo? : )
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#19. To: X-15 (#18)
#20. To: abraxas (#19)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#21. To: X-15, dakmar (#5)
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