Volt Production ‘Temporarily Halted,’ Hundreds of Workers Laid Off
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General Motors told 1,300 employees at its Detroit-Hamtramck factory that they were being “temporarily laid off” for five weeks as the company halts production of the Chevrolet Volt, the Detroit Free Press reports.
“Even with sales up in February over January, we are still seeking to align our production with demand,” said GM spokesman Chris Lee.
“We needed to maintain proper inventory and make sure that we continued to meet market demand,” he told The Hill in a phone interview.
Employees were told Thursday that production would be halted from March 19 to April 23.
“The Chevrolet Volt, an extended-range electric car, is both a political lightning rod and a symbol of the company’s technological capability,” the Detroit Free Press writes.
“Technological capability” or not, the fact of the matter is Chevrolet sold only 1,023 Volts in the U.S. in February and 1,626 so far this year. Moreover, GM fell short of its initial goal of 10,000 for 2011 and only sold 7,671 Volts.
“GM had planned to expand production of its Volt plug-in hybrid to 60,000 this year, with 45,000 earmarked for the U.S.,” according to the report.
However, this may have been sidetracked when “GM and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [NHTSA] spent several weeks trying to explain why two Volts whose batteries were punctured caught on fire after sitting around for at least a week.”
In response to this obvious concern, GM said on Jan. 5 that it would “improve the [Volt's] structure and battery-coolant system” to protect it better against post-collision fires. With that, NHTSA concluded that the Volt was “as safe” as any regular, gasoline-powered vehicle.
Apparently, consumers weren’t convinced and the “exploding battery issue” became the topic of a congressional hearing in January.
“Is the commitment to the American public or is the commitment to clean energy that we are going to get there any way we can?” Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) said in a hearing in the House in January about the Volt’s reported battery fires. “When the market is ready…it won’t have to be subsidized.”
GM believes the federal investigations, repeated criticism from prominent conservatives, and “exaggerated media reports” concerning the battery fires have contributed to the Volt’s poor sales, according to Mlive.
“We did not design the Volt to become a political punching bag and that’s what it’s become,” Akerson told Congress on Jan. 25.
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Comments (244)
Vernon Black
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:22pmWTF! The UAW is laying off UAW workers!…Sweet Irony!!!
Report Post »JohnnyMidknight
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:28pmLast time I saw, the SUV never laid off a worker… or the Camaro. But those are desirable vehicles…
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:38pmSales were up in January only because GE bought them all.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:41pmBama said he want’s to buy a Volt !!! but We all know how he lies…
Report Post »I don’t see one parked in the WH garage !!
Hollywood
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:42pmProduction halted on the Volt? What a SHOCK!
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:46pmWeere they laid off with full pay?
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:55pm@sooner12
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:38pm
“Sales were up in January only because GE bought them all”
True, Immelt told all his people at GE they would not get
Report Post »reimbursed for their milage unless they drove Volts, probably
Bamas idea, be very interesting to find out how many they
did BUY ?? haven’t seen any in AZ, batteries don’t do well
in the extreme HEAT..and we are worried about that pesky
Global Warming Thing, Ya Know !!!
turkey13
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:59pmI can’t believe this also! The US Mint finally cut back on dollar coins after they reached 1.8 billion stored all over the country. The Mint is even renting storage units. They would be stolen if they didn’t weigh so much and no one wants them. They are just going to make them in proof sets so they finally had to lay off gov. workers. That is why it went on so long. Inholf in Oklahoma made a stink about the waste of money and keeping workers that wern’t needed. This is the same problem with the Volt.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 6:09pmJust another government failure…the free market will solve the problems,when and if this car is needed..Obama’s so desperate for any success he can claim,he trying to force this lemon on America..
Report Post »Melvin Spittle
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 6:17pmThere has been only one other car that has been as heavily government sponsored and that is the Trabant of former East Germany. Welcome to socialism my friends and double up on your ration of borscht as there is much to celebrate!
Report Post »Melvin Spittle
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 6:31pmWait for it….wait for it…..here we go: The Army has awarded the new Urban Pacification Vehicle contract to General Motors to provide the Volt-based power-train. The mission of this new system will be to instill a sense of non-aggression amongst insurgent infested villages. When they see how environmentally responsible our fighting forces are, their hearts and minds will be won.
Report Post »AM-Saves
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 6:36pmThe article states 1,300 employees are “temporarily laid off”, I can only assume they will be re-hired when our government has “necessarily” raised gas prices to the point where an overpriced scooter/golf-cart hybrid like the Volt will be the only car that‘s affordable or doesn’t break some EPA rule.
Chevy Volt is the U.S. version of east Germany’s Trabant !
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 7:02pm@vernon–Don’t forget President Obama says Unemployment checks will stimulate the economy! That’s his goal,The more laid off people on unemployment the better he thinks he looks in bringing back The economy.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 7:03pmChina Cannot Make Batteries For The VOLT that don’t burst into flame while being charged in you garage or in your enclosed parking garage at work.
Report Post »lovenfl3
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 7:09pmOf course, it’s the Republicans fault. It has nothing to do with the fact that nobody wants to drive a battery powered car that can hardly get across town and back. Who wouldn’t also want to drive a car that starts on fire? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o35_9qcK0U0
Report Post »Freedom from liberals
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:28pmOur visionary in chief nailed this one right on the head. 1 million Volts by 2015. Have they even made 10 thousand yet.
Report Post »I can see the Obama green car aftermarket. You have a Volt with a sun roof from a closed solar panel company and the fan for the radiator comes a closed windmill factory. It’s genius..
Freedom from liberals
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:38pmHey Spittle;;
Report Post »Had some good laughs from your posts. Any good ideas where I can double up on my borscht? LOL
RepubliCorp
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:01pmcan we put one in the white house garage?
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:41pmWow those sales figures are out of the roof I bet the salesman are getting a good commission and getting rich.
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:51amHey here’s an ideal…have a big promotion where if you buy a loaded Suburban you get a free Volt…although the suburban gets better overall mileage and doesn’t catch fire.
Report Post »B_rad
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 4:39pmPlease, people, stop with the knee-jerk reactions that are no better than what the left does. The Volt was shown as a concept car in 2007. You may recognize that as the year before Obama was elected, and two years before he was president. The Volt was in the works for years before Obama was even heard of. It was not mandated by the federal government in the bailout. While buyers receive large subsidies from the government, any vehicle meeting the criteria get the same subsidy, and there are many more out there for other “green” vehicles. It IS wrong to force us to help pay for someone to buy their car, but that is not the fault of the Volt or GM.
As to the car itself, it is brilliant technology. I’m no greenie, but I am a car guy. I’m fine with my V8 engine, but many people want what hybrids offer, and the Volt gives them that in spades. Just as with Toyota’s Prius, the Volt will lose money at first, but as the technology evolves and it amortized over more vehicles, the price will come down and get even better, just as it did with the Prius. Regardless if you buy the BS about global warming or not, there is a large market for “green” vehicles, and GM needed their own Prius to stay competitive and to continue to meet ever-stricter government regulations.
Continued —>
Report Post »B_rad
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 4:52pmAs to the fires, read the NHTSA report: http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/2012/NHTSA+Statement+on+Conclusion+of+Chevy+Volt+Investigation
They concluded the Volt is no more likely to catch fire after a crash than a gas vehicle. They failed to follow their standard procedure and drain the battery in the crash-tested Volt, as they would the gas tank in a crash-tested gas car. Further, it was GM’s over-cautious engineering of the coolant for the battery that actually caused the fire that did result. Had they left it to be air-cooled, their might not have ever been a fire, but they took it a step further and battery’s liquid cooling caused the incident.
Look, I’m for the free market, and am dead set against bailouts (government takeovers) like what they did to GM and Chrysler. I will NOT buy a new GM until the govt is out of their business (I hope that happens). But when we (as the right) collectively bash something without all the facts, we are playing into the hands of the left, and we have lowered ourselves to their level.
I’m a huge fan of Glenn and appreciate all he does, but there are a few issues that he uses to knock the left over the head where he just scratches the surface and does us all a disservice. The Volt is one of them. I know Glenn is too busy to really delve into the facts surrounding the Volt, but we shouldn’t be using talking points unless we are clear on all the facts surrounding them. It only makes us, and our cause, look bad.
Report Post »B_rad
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 5:22pmSome other odds and ends from the mess I’ve seen in this thread…
The Volt is a plug-in hybrid. That means when you run out of juice after 40 miles or so, a gas motor turns on to charge the batteries. It can also help power the wheels in extreme stress situations. In other words, the Volt has as much or more of a range as any car you’re likely to have in your garage. This solves one of the massive problems with EVs, the terrible range. The Nissan Leaf is pure electric, so when you’re out of juice, you’re walking. So stop saying “a car that can’t get across town and back” or stuff to that effect.
GE is not forcing their employees to buy Volts. The company is buying them and and their employees get to use them. Do you get to choose the car you drive for your company? It IS another example of crony capitalism/socialism, but they are not forcing employees to buy any car.
And I want to repeat one thing so you really get it: The Volt was not mandated or funded by the government. The “bailout” gave the govt extraordinary power over GM, but the Volt was already in place, as were subsidies. Stop blaming the car or GM for the crap our govt does.
Report Post »MarsBarsTru7
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 7:52pm“We did not design the Volt to become a political punching bag and that’s what it’s become.” – GM
Aww. Then perhaps… YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE ACCEPTED GOVERNMENT MONEY!!!!!!!!
Jackasses… Make that, donkeys.
Report Post »MS-GlenNBC
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 1:01amThis is a Job for Romney….
If he can turn around GM and Chrysler I will vote for him in 2020.
He has 8 years to fix these two companies….. NO Bail outs like the Olympics!!!!
He has to fix the companies and restore the stock to those who had it and repay the tax payers.
Good Luck Mitt.
Report Post »rancorkeeper240
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 8:18pmLast week news said they were doing great. I guess their profits were BS, they must be counting global $
Report Post »markthespark
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:22pm“We did not design the Volt to become a political punching bag and that’s what it’s become,”
Too bad, when the government gangsters screwed the bond holders and rewarded unions GM itself became a political punching bag. It is now a state-controlled company akin to Mussolini’s fascist Italy.
Report Post »nolefan2
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:52pmWell said!! They want to blame the mean ol’ conservatives. I wish I could take a punch at them.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 6:12pmLet the Liberal elitist Jerks buy these POS….instead of driving
Report Post »their Escalades and Continental Excursions…HUH ????
MCDAVE
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 6:18pmDon’t support them…this government owned company is free from the burden of working in a free market and will continue to loose money at the tax payers expense.plus place an unfair competition on their competitors …
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 6:27pmJust like the EV1 in the 80′s, during this 5 week period they will look into building them in China.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 7:03pmAnyone want to play a game of bumper cars???????????
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 7:49pmHey, lost all the old stock when they went bankrupt, but they gave me a couple new ones, so I would laugh, except I feel more like crying about the money invested. Shows what great business people democrats in office are. They really do not understand the American people, and I think it is what will cost Obama his job. Do whatever you want to most Americans but do not, I repeat, do not, screw with our love affairs with our cars. And we do not want some wimpy piece of crap run on electricity. Geeez what are they thinking. But anything to get rid of the dork and crew. Socialism doesn’t allow our cars, so bye!
Report Post »IntheDirt
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:40pmGM execs are really stupid. The whole company became a political punching bag as the moment they took my tax dollars to slow down their inevitable failure. The Company is defunct. The Volt is the flagship of their failure.
I wish I could actually punch the guy when he said “We did not design the Volt to become a political punching bag and that’s what it’s become” for being stupid.
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 5:45pmWhat happened to their retiree’s who had stock in GM what did the unions do for them ?
Report Post »Freedom from liberals
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 5:56pmBHO is the pied piper and we’re following him off a cliff. If you don’t believe me watch this You Tube video. It is so hilarious but yet so true.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrXTQROViec
osgeek
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:21pmThe extremely successful Prius only sold 5800 in it’s first year, it is now selling 105,000 units… Maybe the Volt should be given a chance since it still beat Toyota’s first year numbers..
Report Post »Melvin Spittle
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:28pmI don’t care. I will never buy one no matter how good it is even if it only cost a buck.
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:29pmI do not regard that as good news. The poorest taxpayers (i.e., those who can not afford a new car) were forced to subsidize the better-off folks who *could* afford a Prius, to the tune of $7,500 each. It is morally obscene.
Report Post »Melvin Spittle
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:33pmGood point Rightthinking!
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:55pmHa! Ha1 Ha1 Hee! Ha! Ho! Ha!
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 6:23pmOsGeek
Report Post »If your Priuspism last more then four hours seek medical attention. Actually I have seen studies that after 10 years of owning a prius or suburban the prius cost more, is less efficient and less green then the suburban. You have the original batteries and you get new ones every 5 years for 4 to 5k. Also my boss owns one and tires go about every 20k due to the weight of the batts. It is really a piece of electrical snot. Your numbers show how Americans are getting dumber each year.
Beckofile
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 6:34pmrightthinker
The problem is the bottom 50% of citizens are net tax recievers. It is actually the upper middle class who fund the Hollywood jackasses when they purchase the sheepeoples car.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:22pmAll GM and Prezero have to do is MANDATE Volt ownership! Just amend the healthcare bill! Nuthin’ toit!
Report Post »Zipit
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:01pmYah, great! Maybe we can bring down the cost to the taxpayer to around say,,,,,,, $210.000
Report Post »Better Dead Than Red
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:38pmOSGEEK,
We already HAVE bought Chevy Volts!!
Report Post »Every American has with their taxpayer dollars!
Tri-ox
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:21pmThe Chevy Voltobamamobile is obama’s greatest achievement – LOL.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:51pmIt’s the peoples car “Voltswagon” Although I think Hitler new how to build something that would meet demand, and I do mean the demand that is rising not falling. These commies today are so ignorant they can’t even push their crap into society with heavy tax subsidies in da boot.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:53pmJeffrey Immelt calls it the VotesForBoMobile.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 6:15pmSorry the White House just called and told me that it is called “sheepeoples car”
Report Post »Freedom from liberals
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:25pmBeckofile
Report Post »The Voltswagon, now that’s effing hilarious
KINGRUDDY
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:20pmDidnt Curious George just leave the motor city?
Report Post »Telling us how strong the economy is doing?
BAMBOOZELED!!!
HOOD WINKED!!!
RUN A MUCK!!!
Curious George is a LIAR!!
Wake up America!!!!
Female
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 10:55pm“O’bamaboozeled”
I think I see a death panel at work in industry?
Obama speaks jobs die!
Report Post »Vernon Black
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:18pmWTF!!!….The UAW is laying off UAW workers….Sweet Irony!!!!
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:17pmIt will take that much time for obama to come up with a plan to pay people to drive them with tax payers money
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:22pmYes … that is what it will be … I guess GE couldn’t buy enough .. so now the taxpayer will HAVE to buy them … is it NOVEMBER YET?!!!
Report Post »Melvin Spittle
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:14pmI still can’t believe that the Obama administration along with the unions, think that we are so stupid. Get ready for the next blatant attack on liberty: We will be forced to buy them. If they can make us buy insurance, what end is there to their power?
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:26pmRally, they don‘tthink you’re stupid. Tolerant, gullible, easily decieved- but NOT stupid!
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:30pmReminds you of the old question “What’s the difference between a ****** and a lawyer? The ****** quits screwin’ you when you die!
Report Post »Female
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:00pmDid you see the John Stossel special that because of government rebates he purchased an electric car for $0?
“I just got a free golf cart.
Actually, it cost me $6,490 — but the dealer, Colin Riley of Tucson, Ariz., points out that there’s a $6,480 federal tax credit on such vehicles. Riley runs ads that say: “FREE ELECTRIC CAR … !”
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:12pmSaid in the voice of the bully on the Simpsons….”HA-ha!”
Report Post »Melvin Spittle
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:11pmWow! That is amazing! Your tinfoil hat is way too tight pal!
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:18pmWell, well, well … a piece of crap does smell like a VOLT. Way to go, OBAMMY!
Report Post »Melvin Spittle
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:27pmthis was in response to a deleted comment.
Report Post »Melvin Spittle
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:32pmObama will go down in history as the biggest joke ever. Too bad the joke is on us though. We will suffer from his utter contempt for our national identity as a free people through his socialist policies.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:10pmLooks like Obama is as bad at designing cars as he is governing. LMFAO
Report Post »DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:09pmNetanyahu’s quote is taken totally out of context. Good try Paulbot. David Icke and Alex Jones=Communist moles. Russia Today was started by a KGB agent and Vlad Putin runs it. Take your anti-American and anti-semitic crap elsewhere.
Report Post »DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:20pmMy above comment was in response to RAZORHUNTERS and the blaze deleted it. Good, it was false anyway. I went straight to the source and could not find that interview nor the quote anywhere. Stop listening to Alex Jones and David Icke jew(zionist) conspiracy lies. AJ and DI are communist infiltrators and your a useful idiot.
Report Post »Razorhunters
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 6:37pmyou have a problem talk to me …you pos.
whining toad sucker.
Report Post »prove what i posted was wrong.
Living In NYC
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:08pmPoor GM…Covair, Vega and Volt…way to go Barry setting the world on fire with Green Energy!
Barry, I don‘t want ’free stuff” like Sandra the Georgetown Univerity Student, as a taxpayer I just want you to bring Pontiac back…in 2008 I had four Pontiacs, now I only have one…I want a new V-8 Grand Prix! Guess I will stick with my three new Ford..they have V-10 too!
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:17pmThink I’ll keep my 1990 Pontiac awhile longer. It has over 200,000 miles on it, still runs good, gets 25 MPG, and you don’t have to plug it in at night.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 6:20pmPlug it in ALL NIGHT…lose sleep, worrying about if it will catch FIRE …
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:36amto: LIVING IN NYC: The unfortunit [edsel] was an “inbetween” car… inbetween the [ford] and [mercury]. The mercury customer would say it is almost like a mercury, and the ford customer would say it is not enough difference to be worth the extra price. There was nothing at all wrong with the edsel, except fords and merc’s wer not spaced far enough appart to fit it inbetween. Edsel’s price was exactly between the two, also. This is why Chrysler dumped the plymoth…almost exactly the same as a dodge., plus they had no truck-line. The last of the plym’s the only diff was the front grille. for several years. The plym used to be the basic car, then dodge and chrysler.
Report Post »LOJ
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:08pmSorry, but the Volt just was not a good seller. They are sitting on lots all over the US without owners. Nobody wants to mess with them. People are used to comfortable, roomy, and safe SUVS, and Mid-Sized Family Cars.
Report Post »osgeek
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:15pmReally, I can’t find one, I called 10 dealerships… hmm, looks like sheeple response to me…
Report Post »SignPainterGuy
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:56pmOzgeek,
If you really want one, there`s a white one in the showroom at Waynesville Automotive, NC. Lists for $46,000+. Give `em a call at 828-452-2842; ask for Jean Fahey. Nice lady !
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 6:01pmOsgeek..try your local wrecking yard .. I am sure you can find an extra crispy one there!
Report Post »michael48
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:58pmgeek…dealers are selling them to each other…over and over…call comrade-autos and they’ll set you right up…BTW, they’ve already redeemed the rebate ..ocommies campaign fund called…
Report Post »Freedom from liberals
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:43pmHey Osgeek
Report Post »Did you ever consider the dealers don’t want them or is your economic vision about as good as Ray Charles. What a Dope, what dealer would want to put a $45k unproven POS on their lot.
Well I guess your about as smart as our visionary in chief who predicted 1 million volts sold by 2015. We have now reached 9 thousand I believe. Hey, but your saving the enviroment and reducing CO 2. Oh crap, I got to plug it in and get electricity from our coal burning energy plant.
Freedom from liberals
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:52pmOsgood
Report Post »At 5:08 LOJ posts his case about Volts sitting on dealer lots and not selling. At 5:15 you post, oh really I just called 10 lots and nobody has any in stock. Now that’s some serious speed dialing. You‘re so effing stupid you can’t even mask your lies.
GaryInTheMiddle
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:08pmThe Obutthead failures just keep on stacking up.
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:06pmI love General Motors for many reasons.My employment in many ways depends on their success.But the Obamacar(VOLT) isn’t one of them.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:12pmIf they can’t sell this thing with 5 dollar gas around, it must be a real big dog.
Report Post »osgeek
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:19pmReally, the extremely successful Prius only sold 5800 in it’s first year, it is now selling 105,000 units… Maybe the Volt should be given a chance since it still beat Toyota’s first year numbers…
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 7:16pmI just bought a new Toyota pickup and if I hit a Prius, they will replace the bent rim.
Report Post »mkozicki
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:05pmI would think that if enough of them catch fire then the replacement orders should keep things going for years.
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:05pmBarry mobile…of course they are having problems, everything Barry touches is a failure…EVERYTHING
Report Post »geonj
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:04pmof course it is a political punching bag. it sits at the center of obama’s govenmental motors gree initiative.
Report Post »texanpatriot
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 4:59pmWhat is wrong with the American people? Don’t they realize this is the best auto since the Edsel? Well actually the Edsel was much better — it never caught on fire!
A $40,000 price tag with a $10,000 (proposed) discount from Barry and trouble selling? And GE is having to force its employees to use them.
There was enough money in the first stimulus to convert every 18 wheeler in this country to natural gas and set up refuel stations. Safer, $1.00 per gallon equivalent, etc.
I would not buy a Volt if a $40,000 discount was offered.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:04pmAnother great investment of tax payer money from America’s most astute business mind..Barack Obama.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:05pmI would rather just have a Muscle car for $35,000.
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:10pmMe too SMOKEY…anyday!
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:12pmFor $30,000 I can get a 2012 Camaro Convertible and not look Gay. I am due for a midlife Crisis.
Report Post »db321
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:13pmObama doesn’t care about the Volt! His numbers are going threw the roof with Birth Control Moms coming over to his side – $30 a month is enough to get even the most conservative mom to sell out!
Husbands – check with your wife – she is now a closest Obama supporter. I thought Flowers and a could of dinners did it. Never thought about filling the trunk of my car with BC Pills.
Obama is a Genius!
Report Post »db321
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:18pmI use to have two classic Muscle Cars – I drive a V8 Sport Utility – every time I see on of these Volts or Hybrids – I drop it down in to low and hit the gas – I burn more gas in 100 yards in 10 sec than they save in a year.
Report Post »Banter
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:32pm@DB321
LMAO! I have the F-150 Platinum with a 411hp 6.2l engine. Sound from the pipe is awesome under acceleration. I did the same thing a couple of weeks ago to a Prius at a red light. Cost me $10 in gas for the hundred yards, but was worth it.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:46pmThe dude in the Prius probably laughed his ass off at the foolish idiot in the truck acting like a 15 year old…
Report Post »Banter
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:52pmDarn right Trolltrainer. He laughed, I laughed, it was a rollicking good time.
Great to still live in a free (for now) country, eh, Trolltrainer? I can choose to drive a high performance vehicle that gets bad gas mileage, and laugh with someone driving a golf cart that gets great mileage.
Only in America! Enjoy while you can.
Report Post »NLN
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 7:02pmHey Banter. Great idea.I don’t know why I did not come up with it. Put all the liberal treehuggers in golf carts. They are electric, and also they don’t catch on fire either. Good thinking.
Report Post »lawrench
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 4:58pmSo what this means is that they built too many and no one is buying them. Interesting, I wonder how long before every government vehicle will be a Chevy Volt? Kind of reminds me of the ‘80’s, every government vehicle was a “K” car from Chrystler or a Dodge Pickup. We will never see our money back from the Auto bailout.
Report Post »Goldmember
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 4:58pmWould never buy from Government Motors. just bought my 6th BMW this week, X5, assembled in the Carolina’s. Non-Union. Stick it Obummer
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:17pmU got a good one
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 6:11pmGoldmember thanks for the heads-up…ready to trade my Pontiac..really like the new BMW and non-union to boot!
I moved to Ford because of no bailout funds for my kids, but want non-union too and American made..BMW might be just the ticket!
Report Post »Razorhunters
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 4:58pmdone with gm, barry and this whole freakin joke of govt…
may you all become tomorrow’s lawn fertilizer.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:06pmI had never had anything except a Chevy (have fabulous 1991 Camaro) in my whole 30 year driving career until they became Gov’t Motors – will never own another one
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 4:55pmim surprised they sold 7600 of those things.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:00pmGE bought a lot of them. I forget the exact number.
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 5:34pmSeeker:
Report Post »GE? Wow imagine that. I would like to know how many were either purchased by the federal government, or by local governments via grants? I am guessing LOTS, well ‘lots’ relative to the number sold.
TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 4:53pmI doubt these people will return to their jobs manufacturing the Dolt-uh, Volt.
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