Why don't cons ever point out the Chevy Volt was Car of the Year?

Question

By that socialist bastion, Motor Trend?

http://www.motortrend.com/oftheyear/car/1101_2011_motor_trend_car_of_the_year_chevrolet_volt/viewall.html

Answer 1

The goal is to discredit alternative energy.



They will fail, of course. Alternatives to fossil fuels have too many advantages over and above environmental ones. As the technical problems are resolved, electric cars and other alternatives to gas and coal will capture a bigger and bigger share of the market.



Conservatives cling to the status quo -- in this case the existing technologies. They don't understand or want change. The oil and coal companies use that feeling to manipulate cons into ridiculing alternative energy of any kind, no matter how effective and cost-efficient.



But obsolete tech is obsolete tech - in th along run modern alternatives win out in the marketplace. The cons efforts might delay the inevitalbe -- but they are doomed to fail.

Answer 2

Europeans are not fooled with the help of the anti-Volt incorrect information we see in our media right here interior the U. S.. * bear in strategies, gas is $7 - $10 in keeping with gallon in Europe. A vehicle that burns very almost no gas ought to save near to $a thousand in keeping with month with gas at that time. So an superior month-to-month vehicle charge - even one numerous hundreds of greenbacks bigger - continues to be a solid purchase once you're saving that lots $$ on gas. * Europe and Asia has continually been the objective markets for the Volt. in basic terms wait till eu sales numbers on Volt start to return in.

Answer 3

Volt has won many awards, Car of the Year in Europe, Best Engineered car from SAE (professional auto engineers), and topped Consumer Reports' customer satisfaction survey - beating EVERY other car they track for satisfying drivers. It also beat every other GM car in Consumer Reports reliability category. See link:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-57334967-48/chevy-volt-scores-highest-satisfaction-rating-in-consumer-reports-survey/

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It also earns top 5-star safety rankings from every safety testing agency - NHTSA, IIHS, Euro NCAP, and Consumer Reports. Here at this link is Volt winning "Top Safety Pick" from the insurance industry's own testing group:

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http://www.iihs.org/ratings/tsp_archive.html

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All the criticisms of the Volt are in fact trumped-up nonsense. The one fire reported in the media happened after the car was stored UPSIDE DOWN for THREE WEEKS after a crash test, with coolant dripping into a damaged battery the whole time. What this really shows is how incredibly difficult it is to make an EV battery burn. A damaged gas tank wouldn't take so long to ignite.

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No "real-world" Volts have ever burned, and none ever will. Contrast this imagined safety fault to a "real-world" safety fault - exploding and burning Jeeps. See article below:

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http://www.wcnc.com/video/yahoo-video/Jeep-Investigation-Your-reports-are-simply-terrible-149237715.html

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Quote from above article about gas-powered Jeeps:

"...Monauni said the fire was fast and furious. “It blew up, became totally engulfed in flames and there was an explosion.” The fire quickly spread to the house."

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Where is the outraged right over dangerous gas-powered vehicles? On average - statistically, there's a flaming gas-fueled fiery accident about every two minutes, somewhere. Here's another one, with pictures - an exploding gas-fueled Volkswagen:

http://www.wvec.com/news/slideshows/Car-fire-at-Trader-Joes-in-Virginia-Beach-144673535.html

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I'll end with a news article from 2008 showing it was in fact GW Bush - not Obama - that enacted Volt's tax subsidies into law:

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http://www.dailytech.com/Chevrolet+Volt+to+Receive+7500+Tax+Credit/article13125.htm

Answer 4

Volt owners are getting another lesson in what it means to be on the cutting edge of auto mobility — many will need to bring their cars in for a beefier extension cord.



General Motors has announced it is replacing the cord and charging device that lets owners charge the car from a 120-volt household outlet, according to a report by Reuters. According to Consumer Reports, some Volt owners have complained that their 120-volt charger “overheats during use and have even documented online videos of melted 120-volt chargers.” CR said it has not had the problem in its testing of the car, which is on its “recommended” list.







Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/chevy-volt/2012/03/25/more-problems-chevy-volt#ixzz1w7h2BBic



NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Despite winning a trophy case worth of awards -- including Motor Trend Car of the Year and North American Car of the Year -- the Chevrolet Volt plug-in car has failed to meet GM's sales expectations.

The problem is simple: The car's price is simply too high for most customers to swallow, according to analysts.



GM (GM, Fortune 500) had expected to sell 10,000 Volts by the end of last year, the car's first full year on the market. Actual sales tallied up to only about 7,600.

For 2012, GM had set a goal of about 45,000 Volt sales in the United States alone. That already seems out of reach. GM sold about 600 Volts in January and just over 1,000 in February.

"We had thought they'd sell closer to 30,000," said Mike Omotoso, an industry analyst with LMC Automotive. "Now even that seems optimistic."





http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/05/autos/volt_sales_analysis/index.htm







The Problem with the Chevy Volt in One Paragraph

By Greg Pollowitz

March 5, 2012 10:13 A.M. Comments11

CBS News:



“The oversupply of Volts suggests that consumer demand is just not that strong for these vehicles,” says Lacey Plache, Edmunds chief economist. Plache notes that high price is a drawback. “The price premium on the Volt just doesn’t make economic sense for the average consumer when there are so many fuel-efficient gasoline cars available, typically for thousands of dollars less.”



It’s the economics of the car, stupid. Yes Secretary Chu and Team Obama: I mean you.



http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/292585/problem-chevy-volt-one-paragraph-greg-pollowitz#

Answer 5

Obama did not save GM -- he saved the United Auto Workers union.



• First President to Abrogate Bankruptcy Law to Turn Over Control of Companies to His Union Supporters



http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=awCyiNlvcfUA

Answer 6

LOL



Car Of The Year?



And how much did they pay for that article?

Answer 7

Because they're a bunch of lying crooks. John Kerry said that.

Answer 8

Simple.



They hate anything associated with the USA.



You might also mention that it's rated as the MOST SATISFACTORY car of 2012 - as reported in Consumer Reports.



But of course, Red State Righties are always desperate to encourage hatred towards the USA .... and the American worker.



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Answer 9

Because facts seem to destroy the libs ability to ignore the TRUTH!!!!

http://nlpc.org/stories/2012/03/05/gm-chevy-volt-halt-confirms-green-energy-policy-failure

http://www.policymic.com/articles/5308/chevy-volt-failure-shows-why-government-subsidies-are-bad

Answer 10

Because that is from 2011 before performance and the fires.



PERFORMANCE OF INTENDED FUNCTION should have clued you in.