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Default Chevy Volt's Updated Design

Director of Design for the Volt, Bob Boniface, talks about the updated designs.

http://blog.gmnext.com/?p=229

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Old 08-22-2008, 02:39 AM
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love the bumpers esp. the fog lights, its design is really a genius, but other than that how come there's no picture of the whole car? i'm looking forward to it...
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Whoah! Love the look of it! Thanks for the nice info!
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Nice looking car, too bad its probably never going to be produced. Its way over priced. Drop the hybrid part. Get down the price to around $20k If $40 k is the target price GM will not sell many of them. Why GM insist upon making vehicles that are out of the price range of working people I will never know. All the manufacturers need to be cognisant of the fact that very few working people can afford a car over $20 k. Although my grandfather was an autoworker for Ford and the Unions were needed back then, The Unions are killing the automakers with greed now. I have no problem with Unions, but the Unions have got realise by now that their greed is killing the car manufacturers.
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GM and Ford stocks have hit rock bottom. Detroit automaker did not plan ahead and where really just interest in profit margins of individual car lines. The Clinton admins gave the domestic automakers a chance to bulid a future high mileage car. The automakers executives screwed their workers with no real vision for the future and we are know at that cross road again with the automakers whining for government money. The housing, mortgage, and auto industry had the chance to plan ahead and they screwed up!!!
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The Unions are killing the automakers with greed now. I have no problem with Unions, but the Unions have got realise by now that their greed is killing the car manufacturers.
I don't think it's greed as much as clinging to a post WWII Leave it to Beaver vision of the US that has now passed.
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Woops. I tried to start a thread on the volt in the chit-chat section, but forgot we have a hybrid section.

I do have a question about the volt though. Has anyone seen it driving faster than ~15 MPH?
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I think I saw one go about 65 mph on its way to the crusher, but maybe I was just seeing things.
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I do have a question about the volt though. Has anyone seen it driving faster than ~15 MPH?
The concept is a rolling movie prop with no suspension that sounds like cinder blocks scraping on pavement when it lumbers around. Nobody's actually videotaped the mules in motion but presumably they can go freeway speed.

Chrysler's ENVI prototypes are far more impressive as far as showing stuff actually in motion. But it's since been revealed that outside parties did most of the work FOR Chrysler in getting those up and running.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRnbnlay36M
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Heres why I'm getting worried about the volt:

http://www.diyelectriccar.com/forums...olt-24159.html

I also found the original documentary that this clip was ripped from if you want to see it. (PBS frontline episode: "heat")
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