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'captainhowdy2', a lexus hybrid for $37K. don't hold your breath. tthe opening price IS250 is that price and it's not a hybrid. pricing like that would completely screw up their marketing plan. perhaps a toyota for that price, but not a lexus.
Meanwhile, Nissan just announced Leaf, their all-electric car that pretty much does whatever the Volt does, to be introduced in 2010 for a price tag just in the upper $20s’! I am not sure how GM can compete with that. Always a day late and a dollar short.
Lexus is developing a luxury sedan hybrid, the HS250H. The price is rumored to be between $35,000-$37,000.
Which one will people buy?
Throughout the 80's and 90's, the Japanese auto companies had a strategy of letting the US work out technological bugs, and then reverse engineering their designs. They saved a tremendous amount of R&D costs this way. Why GM didn't just reverse engineer the Prius is beyond me, but speaks volumes as to why the US auto industry will soon be a thing of the past.
Way to go Lutz!!!
I was just about to say that. Spot on, Cap.
The comedy antics never stop with these guys.
Sigh, what ever happened to this country...
I honestly have no idea what GM is thinking. My grandfather has a model T that gets better mileage that GM cars today. GM's electric car now is more expensive and gets worse gas mileage than it's earlier one that went into production 10 years ago. Even the battery was better.
good news, not for g.m. but my ford stock. this might just push it to $9. a share.
This happens all the time.American auto dealers finds away to destroy it product before it gets out of the block.I remember looking at a Pontiac Soltice and all the hysteria before it came out.The MSRP was around 22k but the dealership tacked on 12k or because of so-called market value.So that killed peoples interest which the dealers never regained.Short term profit which I know Toyota dealers refuse to allow it dealers to participate in jacking up it prices above MSRP.
For that price I will find me a nice BMW
Hmmmm, $21k for a tried and true Prius?
or
$40k for yet another piece of American j u n k?
Prius, hands down. The Volt will never see mass production because no one is going to buy it, no more than we wanted to buy their combustion engine j u n k.
Another Lutz triumph , reminds me of the GTO Lutz "developed". $40,000 for an electric car with a 40 mile range on its $8,000 battery pack. I had hopes for GM when Lutz retired. But now like the Poltergeist Lutz "is Back". GM with its $36,500 LeCross, advertised at Buick Open Sunday , and this Volt Albatross hasn't learned a thing. Even with all that large debt overhead gone, Lutz and buddies are still trying to milk car buyers with these overpriced tanks . GM is going back down into the toilet , hopefully for good this time.
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no economic improvement anytime soon'....
ODE to the Chevy Volt
The absence of know-how prevails
Engineering by MBAs fails.
Coming out of bankruptcy, GM has to make one particularly significant adjustment to remain in business. And it isn't laying off 10,000 production workers. It is laying off the entire executive and management staff down to the department level.
well considering that almost everything I have read or seen about the volt stipulates that it doesnt run, had to be pushed to the interview, and just isnt ready for the market yet after this many years, and considering that had a working car 10 years ago called the Evo and cant get this pile of junk to work, Id say 40 grand is about 39,999 dollars to much. I for one wouldnt want to be the first to purchase this nightmare on wheels. Its been plagued with problems from the start, and no one has actually seen a working model that wasnt just barely able to roll to the tv interview.
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First Posted: 08- 3-09 04:53 PM | Updated: 09- 8-09 06:34 PM