Thread: Volt Revealed!
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Old 09-16-2008, 02:23 PM   #149 (permalink)
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Re: Volt Revealed!

They apparently had to get rid of the cool long hood look - I guess for aerodynamics. Yet the craggy mag wheels can stay?

This demonstrates an old virtue of GM going back at least to the '32 Chevy - the ability to use lots of trim to make something look more expensive than it is.

But the basic body shape is Prius, not the 'dreamcar' psuedo-Camaro Volt we all drooled over.

Apparently noboby at GM is worried that people will delay buying a current GM to wait for this one. (In the sixties GM never would have made these big pronouncements of super-neat cars coming a few years.

Ironically (tragically?) the first time GM really bragged about something that was no more than some equations on pieces of paper? The "XP887" which was heralded in 1968. The car we ended up with? The VEGA.
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