GM Smoke and Mirrors

It's already been discussed that the Volt isn't coming out until 2011. GM will never catch up.

 

where's malorn when we need him?

 

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And by the looks of recent Toyota announcements, neither is the plug-in Prius. Toyota just announced the start of a three year study whose aim is to determine if people really want plug-in hybrids.

 

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Don't worry, we always have a Detroit 3 gas guzzler cheerleader inhabiting PriusChat. I'm sure that he'll step up to the mike sooner or later and go in to full malorn mode.

 

Chevy's lineup is very similar to toyota's if you subtract the prius from Toyota's lineup. Would someone tell me if the percentage of toyota's sales in the United States which are the Prius? Is it more than half? Is it more than 20%? Is it more than 10%? Or is it less than 10%?

 

Get cold under the bridge?
Oh yeah, the Prius is in the market place though so why discount it? But the Volt is another story.

 

is that a welcome back?

 

Maybe you need a heater or insulation under the bridge, you need a smaller avatar.

 

I hope that is better.

 

Never say never:
The U.S. said 'never' will the japanese car be superior to the U.S. car, once upon a time. Now? So called 'U.S. car companies' are made in Mexico and Canada, while so called asian car companies build 'em here in the good ol' U.S. of A. I'm so confused.
I WOULD like to see the Volt be a success ... even if it's made in Mexico. It would make Toyota come out with their own version ... only better ... and maybe - ultimately, made here in the U.S.

 

Meanwhile, at least their test mules are running all around the landscape, while the GM hopefull is mearly a design not yet even figued out.

 

Well, if that's the case, then Toyota is off the table for me. I want to be driving a plug-in car in the next couple of years. Maybe I'll roll the dice on Aptera.

 

Please stop with the US cars made in Mexico and Canada and the Toyota's made in the USA. I can show you countless info that shows it is not true.

 

Please do.

 

Here,
I'll help him:
(But my 'paste' finger will get tired)

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=109831

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpa...7A15755C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2005/05/10/073228.html

http://www.prdomain.com/companies/G/GeneralMotors/newsreleases/20025818547.htm

I was trying to be kind by stopping. But lets not forget malorn's favorite manufacturer ~ CHINA

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0UDO/is_3_16/ai_93954922

ad nausium.
perhaps he thinks that if he says it often enough, that dumb folks will believe. Then there was the EV1 ... made in the U.S.A. ... but GM has a better way now. I'd even (reluctantly) buy the EV1 if it was made overseas. They don't even have to spend years developing it, as with the Volt ... someday ... take the operational EV1's and let the subcontractors bid on production ... with a rear seat!!
battery development my hinie ~

 

Did you notice how the GM article kept saying "North American" manufacturing? Mexico is in North America.