Inside the 2011 Chevrolet Volt
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The car I sat inside yesterday was not a final production model, so I won’t be commenting on the quality of the plastics, and the fit and finish of the car.
It looks fine inside, maybe trying a bit too hard to appeal to the iPod crowd.
The pattern on the door panels are a bit much. Again, trying a bit too hard to be cool. Like some old guy’s view of what young people might like…
The 4 seater arrangement is fine, except that the rear seats are directly under the glass from the hatch. Which might get hot.
The car looks fine in person, but I really think GM should start showing other colors. I saw pictures of the black one and it looks much better. We’ve all seen this light blue green on the car for too long….
Basically, I can’t wait to drive one….
GM lost me. They shows this thing for so many months, years and now telling me only californians can buy them next year. vince, did you open the hood? does it even have an propulsion system? lol.
Gee, they couldn't have created a better blind spot with their huge A-pillars…
"Anonymous said…
GM lost me. They shows this thing for so many months, years and now telling me only californians can buy them next year. vince, did you open the hood? does it even have an propulsion system? lol.
December 2, 2009 9:07 AM"
x2.
GM can go under as well for all I care, take Chrysler with you when you turn off the lights and lock the door.
What a joke…$40K for a enviro stupidity car when even idiots know that CO2 makes plants green.
Like an iPod Touch, it looks like it'll scratch easily and the lightest of use. My iPod looks like crap after two months.
The Volt should have been at dealerships last year. I'm tired of it already. Still, I hope it is a huge success.
The designs on the door panels look stupid. I really hope you can get an interior without them. It reminds me of 1970's lounge chairs.
@ Eric………
Those A pillars are TERRIBLE! Can't wait to see the lawsuits because of an accident due to the driver "not seeing".
Why must they be so freakin' wide???
"My iPod looks like crap after two months."
You don't carry your car in your pocket with loose change.
I will agree that it's taking FOREVER to bring this to market. No other carmaker teases and drags their feet longer than GM. The Camaro, The CTS Coupe, the Cruze have all been promoted to death. Wasn't the yellow Camaro in the Transformers movie two years ago, and it was just launched practically yesterday. BOOOOOO!
so GM's idea of turning the company around is to introduce a $40k car that does not generate any profit at extremely quantity to a state where 10% of the ppl are on food stamp (keep in mind that only 60% of families that qualify for food stamp actually go and apply for it) and the government has so little money that it is raising the tuition of its state funded universities by 32%.
this is classic display american business tactic at such a high level, and it's probably working, i am pretty sure honda/toyota are panicking sh1tless due to an extremely amount of confusion right now. way to go gm, that's how you use those tax dollar, spend millions on developing an overpriced car that doesn't return any profit and sell it at low volume to tiny % of the population!
You don't carry your car in your pocket with loose change.
I don't carry my iPod there either.
Other than the scratch issue, the white gauge faces seem like they'd reflect a lot of light making them less legible. Is that a legitimate concern, or do I have to carry it in my pocket with loose change?
Whats with the crap interior.
even idiots know that CO2 makes plants green.
(Do you know the difference between CO & CO2?)
"so GM's idea of turning the company around is to introduce a $40k car…" Kinda reminds you of the Toyota & the Prius, doesn't it?
"this is classic display american business tactic"
–You have absolutely no idea of what you are talking about– on so many levels; I don't even know where to begin. Mabey you can convince a bank to give you a business loan, and then show us all how it's done.
If this is GM future. Could someone shoot me? This is a piece of SH??. I saw it at the LA AUTO SHOW and nothing good come to mind about this car. They keep saying is not a HYBRID, but it is hard to hide the 1.4 liter engine it has under the hood. I thought they said it had a generator not a whole engine. 40 miles electric is nothing in LA. Crap Crap Crap, all I can say.