Revolting. GM recalls 8,000 Chevy Volts
General Motors has announced it is recalling 8,000 Chevy Volts in an attempt to save the lives of their customers. As we have already reported the Chevy Volt gets great fuel mileage but are horrible on your garage. Now when I first heard that GM was recalling 8,000 Chevy Volts my first reaction was… are there really 8,000 people crazy enough to buy one in the first place? That’s not a fair comment is it? After all who wouldn’t want a futuristic car that can go a full 35 miles without any gas at all?? 35 miles! Yee Haw!!
The problem is, the Chevy Volt is a lemon. An electric, garage incinerating lemon, to be precise. And now the government errrr…. I mean General Motors is confessing to the mess by recalling all 8,000 of them and attempting to retrofit and make them, shall we say… less explosive?
It’s not that I am against electric cars, in fact I think there will come a day when we might all be driving them around. Yet that day hasn’t come yet. Currently, good old fashioned combustion engines are still the safest, most efficient way of getting from point A to point B. Electric cars will ultimately succeed or fail based on customer demand within the free market (assuming the free market survives), electric cars will not succeed through the coercion of the federal government ramming these vehicles down our throat before the technology has been adequately tested and proven to be a superior.
For me… I will take a fuel guzzling classic American Muscle car and I’m not giving it up until they rip my 500 horsepower V8 from my cold dead hands.
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I can’t figure out why all the negative publicity – whats the motive? After a ton of research I finally went out and bought a VOLT. It is an amazing car that is saving me a ton of cash on fuel costs. What cost me $230/mo just to go to work now costs me $17. I have not heard of one VOLT that caught fire other than a “Test Crash” where the VOLT actually caught fire two weeks after the test crash while the car was sitting vertical and fluids slowly filled the battery compartment. So much of the negativity is either lies or exaggerated facts. I’m not the typical Green Person parading around saving the planet. I am actually a political conservative and have watched my own FOX news flat out mislead and lie about the VOLT. At the end of my 6 year 0% loan I will have saved at least $18K in gasoline costs (Half the cost of the car) With tax credits were looking at a cost of about 10K for this 40K car.
LOW VOLTAGE! GM laying off 1300 due to low Volt sales
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/gm-laying-1300-due-low-volt-sales/406771
Even more revolting…. GM dealerships refuse to take Volt’s in their inventory. http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120123/RETAIL07/301239977/1261
I should be safe with one of those as I don’t have a garage!