Scared of Your Volt? GM will Loan You a Camaro or Corvette

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With another instance of the Chevy Volt battery erupting into flames over the holiday weekend, owners of the groundbreaking hybrid might be getting a little gun-shy about their high-tech rides. To appease worried Volt owners, GM is now offering a free lease on any GM vehicle while the company works to fix the issue, according to Jalopnik. Yes, that means Volt owners can even lease a Camaro or Corvette for free.

www.chevyhardcore.com

[vett boy]

EDSEL

And how much has GM (and tax payers) invested in a white elephant ?

[6 Shooter]

Detroit - General Motors today(December 1, 2011) raised the white flag on its goal of selling 10,000 Chevy Volts this year.

GM said it tallied 1,139 Volt sales in November. That brings the year-to-date total to 6,142. There’s no chance of a 4,000-unit sales boom this month, so GM cried uncle.

Automotive News: GM to miss Volt sales goal. Should we care?

[Yoda]

Another slant to the Volt debacle:

"There are a couple of mistakes that have been made, but we all trying to do the right things," he said. "We are moving fast." He said GM's policy on returns is clear: "If someone wants us to buy back the car we're going to buy back the car." Wall Street Journal Article

Bud

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With another instance of the Chevy Volt battery erupting into flames over the holiday weekend, owners of the groundbreaking hybrid might be getting a little gun-shy about their high-tech rides. To appease worried Volt owners, GM is now offering a free lease on any GM vehicle while the company works to fix the issue, according to Jalopnik. Yes, that means Volt owners can even lease a Camaro or Corvette for free.

www.chevyhardcore.com

That is still a pretty expensive camaro, but a fair deal on a vette.

Wonder how long the vehicle owners are allowed to keep them?

[killain]

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And how much has GM (and tax payers) invested in a white elephant ?

Ya know the Chevrolet Volt isn't a white elephant despite it's numerous drawbacks in it's operation. And I respect your opinion, I think all of us here who are truly enthusiastic automotive junkies want to see the Volt succeed. But in truly plain terms, this 'Volt' was developed for basically the urban environment, and I think you'll see in the next 8 years, in this urban environment the 'Volt' is going to fail and fail big. From the whole aspect of recharging, and almost all homes in a city are row or brownstone and that means no garage and that means somehow finding a way to reach an extension cord to your 'Volt' from your home is going to prove a true nightmare of a weekly chore or biweekly chore. However if you live just outside a city limits then you may be able to operate the Volt as it is designed. But in doing that you will see it is a very very small group who fits this criteria. And then again the whole issue of the warranty and projected life of the 700 pound battery and as we can now see, the battery itself is really subject to real well deserved doubt. In eight years would you purchase a second hand Chevy 'Volt' ? So the 'Volt' is a viable efficient, economical automobile. But that is going to be both fleeting and undeserved level of optimism. and the continued life of this hybrid is in my opinion going to have to change to the operating system as seen in the Toyota Prius. And now I read the Nissan 'Leaf' is outselling the 'Volt' 4 to 1.

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Ya know the Chevrolet Volt isn't a white elephant despite it's numerous drawbacks in it's operation. And I respect your opinion, I think all of us here who are truly enthusiastic automotive junkies want to see the Volt succeed. But in truly plain terms, this 'Volt' was developed for basically the urban environment, and I think you'll see in the next 8 years, in this urban environment the 'Volt' is going to fail and fail big. From the whole aspect of recharging, and almost all homes in a city are row or brownstone and that means no garage and that means somehow finding a way to reach an extension cord to your 'Volt' from your home is going to prove a true nightmare of a weekly chore or biweekly chore. However if you live just outside a city limits then you may be able to operate the Volt as it is designed. But in doing that you will see it is a very very small group who fits this criteria. And then again the whole issue of the warranty and projected life of the 700 pound battery and as we can now see, the battery itself is really subject to real well deserved doubt. In eight years would you purchase a second hand Chevy 'Volt' ? So the 'Volt' is a viable efficient, economical automobile. But that is going to be both fleeting and undeserved level of optimism. and the continued life of this hybrid is in my opinion going to have to change to the operating system as seen in the Toyota Prius. And now I read the Nissan 'Leaf' is outselling the 'Volt' 4 to 1.

I think you may be wrong about all of us wanting the Volt to succeed. Some here want anything that doesn't fit their view of the world to fail, no matter the consequences.