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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/25/09

    In reply to Pre-Production Chevy Volt Plugged In, Testing In Real World
    Hey, check out the 964/S90! Sweet. I haven't seen one of those recently; they didn't sell too well.
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    Image of Bret Bret
    06/25/09

    In reply to Pre-Production Chevy Volt Plugged In, Testing In Real World
    Wish this was available now. I'd trade in my beat to hell 18mpg worth <$1000 B4000 on a Volt in a heartbeat.


    I'm pulling for GM to recover then thrive and make good on my invested tax dollars. It's silly to bash GM now that they have our money. Go kick some asses Fritz and get this thing in production with a good IQS score!

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    Image of dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
    06/25/09

    In reply to Pre-Production Chevy Volt Plugged In, Testing In Real World
    It's funny how he mentions testing the sound of the blinker while showing footage of the car making turns without signaling.
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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    06/25/09

    In reply to Pre-Production Chevy Volt Plugged In, Testing In Real World
    10 volts per week, with 80 volts by the end of the year?


    Mate, GM wouldn't voom if you put 4 million volts through it.


    And don't give me any shit about GM just being pinin'.

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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    06/25/09

    In reply to Pre-Production Chevy Volt Plugged In, Testing In Real World
    In 2040, "I Love The Teens" will be filled with all sorts of snarky references to how trendy plug-in hybrids were around 2015. By then, VH1's current crop of sardonic hipsters will talk about the absurdity of a car that hauls around a fully electric drivetrain and a four cylinder IC engine, yet is supposedly a breakthrough in "green" efficiency.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/25/09

    In reply to Pre-Production Chevy Volt Plugged In, Testing In Real World
    That doesn't look anything like what they showed us.
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    Image of Mekkon Mekkon
    06/25/09

    In reply to Pre-Production Chevy Volt Plugged In, Testing In Real World
    Easy to get things done when someone else is paying the bills, no?
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    06/25/09

    @Mekkon: the program was slated to be here on the timeline with our without the gov buying GM stock. You should be pulling for GM to be successful or the taxpayers will never get their money back.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    06/25/09

    In reply to Pre-Production Chevy Volt Plugged In, Testing In Real World
    Not to be outdone, Geely has just completed the first preproduction Volt knock off. Codenamed "Ohm", spy photos of this disintegration vehicle to follow.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/25/09

    @Twitterin' Ted Kennedy: @FormerlyPreferredCustomer: Electrical jokes. I love it.
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    06/25/09

    In reply to Pre-Production Chevy Volt Plugged In, Testing In Real World
    A huge leap forward? Really? They have been working on this thing for how many years and mules are just now being produced? They are still at least another year away from production by the sounds of it. This only serves to highlight the fact that the Generals production and engineering are woefully slow and still behind it's competitors.


    /trolling

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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    06/25/09

    @OMG! Bertone-77!: That is some pretty hardcore trolling.
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    Image of mikedrawcar mikedrawcar
    06/25/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: no shit- I'd say a fully electric vehicle in the time it takes to develop a normal car is pretty damn fantastic. The only reason why it seems like a long time is because GM's let everyone in on the design from day 1.


    You don't hear about the 2015 cars right now, do you? Well, they're working on them.

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    Image of Joewithay Joewithay
    06/25/09

    In reply to Pre-Production Chevy Volt Plugged In, Testing In Real World
    Why does all this "green cars" have to have very similar and ugly back ends?
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/25/09

    @Joewithay: Because car design is a nearly dead art, alas. Welcome to the era of jellybeans!
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    Image of DrLemming DrLemming
    06/25/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: Oh, I don't know about that. American car design tends to suffer from group think regardless of whether aerodynamics is a priority. However, we're already highly sensitized to the often very small distinctions between competing designs that aren't aerodynamic.
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    Image of mikedrawcar mikedrawcar
    06/25/09

    @DrLemming: I wouldn't say groupthink so much as "manager think". There were a number of managers who thought they knew what was better for design than the designers for a while, and therefore sacrificed a lot of the cool design elements.


    This has been changing rapidly since about 2000 though. And also, aerodynamics play a very small role because, well, they play a very small role until you get up to around highway speed, where the gas engine is already pretty efficient. And nobody really cared about that efficiency until gas prices went up 1-2 years ago, and it takes at least 4 years to get a design to production.

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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    06/25/09

    In reply to Pre-Production Chevy Volt Plugged In, Testing In Real World
    who's up for a game of Volt-spotting?


    Hopefully this doesn't involve diving into public toilets looking for Opium suppositories that you just accidentally shat out.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/25/09

    @Ash78: I don't even know about this kind of activity or anything related to it. Where the hell have you been and what the hell have you been doing?

    Anyway, that would be a Volt Mule, right?
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    06/25/09

    In reply to Pre-Production Chevy Volt Plugged In, Testing In Real World
    It's about time. I'm totally amped for this car.
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    Image of sotiredofsoup sotiredofsoup
    06/25/09

    @Alfisted: I hope GM sees a surge in sales with this one.
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    Image of Danimal Danimal
    06/25/09

    @sotiredofsoup: They should be able to zap the competition.
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    06/25/09

    @Danimal: Watt???
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    06/25/09

    In reply to Pre-Production Chevy Volt Plugged In, Testing In Real World
    Wow, I've never at all noticed before, but everything from the A-pillar back looks remarkably like a European Civic 5-door.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/25/09

    @A strolling player: I think it looks like an Acura.
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    Image of Engineerman Engineerman
    06/25/09

    @Don Juan Placencia del Fuego Seat Alhambra Caballero Vega C...: Aerodynamic designs tend to look the same. In this case, as well as the civic, I imagine aerodynamics were near the top of the design priorities.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    06/25/09

    @Engineerman: I know, but it's the details--the taillights and spoiler I think more than anything. Notice I didn't say "Toyota Prius".
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    02/20/09

    In reply to 2010 Opel Ampera Spied
    Does China get a version called the Buick OHMpium????
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    02/20/09

    In reply to 2010 Opel Ampera Spied
    Hear me o jalops. Carpocalypse is merely precursor to World Opelisation.
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