Chevy Volt takes 27 years before owners save money

377OHMS · Apr 27, 2012

Quote from Lucrum:

As long as they're in business I won't buy a GM.

Me neither. I wouldn't drive a General Motors vehicle if they gave them away for free.

The engineering that went into the Volt is truly mediocre. Then seeing the Obama regime pushing the product turned me off even further. The company and the car are too closely associated with Barrack Obama for me to ever utilize either. The grotesque implementation of the Volt drivetrain just confirms every doubt about GM and liberalized union labor. They might at well have named it the Obamamobile.

Tsing Tao · Apr 27, 2012

Quote from Sandybestdog:

Then why do they catch on fire?

The same reason houses catch fire, I would imagine. User initiated accidents.

The last car I remember that caught fire or exploded because of design was the Pinto. But I'm not an expert in the field like you "are".

Tsing Tao · Apr 27, 2012

Quote from Tsing Tao:

I need you to translate it from Primate to English (the Queen's or otherwise) first, please. I already asked you to do so. What the fuck are you exactly asking me? Are you curious to which other products I boycott because of political or moral issues?

BigMouthArrow, did you go away and hide?

RCG Trader · Apr 27, 2012

Quote from Tsing Tao:

The same reason houses catch fire, I would imagine. User initiated accidents.

The last car I remember that caught fire or exploded because of design was the Pinto. But I'm not an expert in the field like you "are".

Im not sure if the Pinto and Volt can compared Tsing. The Pinto was a bomb on wheels.

377OHMS · Apr 27, 2012

Quote from Tsing Tao:

BigMouthArrow, did you go away and hide?

He has an oversized ego to go with that overstated IQ and big mouth. He is away nursing that ego.

Sandybestdog · Apr 27, 2012

Quote from Tsing Tao:

The same reason houses catch fire, I would imagine. User initiated accidents.

The last car I remember that caught fire or exploded because of design was the Pinto. But I'm not an expert in the field like you "are".

So 250,000 gas cars catch fire every year and that's OK because you say it's user generated. Meanwhile three Volt's catch fire weeks after they are crash tested and it's because of faulty design?

bigarrow · Apr 27, 2012

Quote from 377OHMS:

He has an oversized ego to go with that overstated IQ and big mouth. He is away nursing that ego.

Hey donut boy, I see you're still trolling behind me.

377OHMS · Apr 28, 2012

Quote from bigarrow:

Hey donut boy, I see you're still trolling behind me.

Nobody could troll you with that tremendous IQ and charismatic personality of yours LOL.

Tsing Tao · Apr 28, 2012

Quote from RCG Trader:

Im not sure if the Pinto and Volt can compared Tsing. The Pinto was a bomb on wheels.

I'm not comparing the two. He asked me why cars NOW catch on fire. I said it was NOT due to design and more due to accidents (structural damage, etc)...like the way houses catch on fire not being a design issue.

Why do I have to repeat everything? Don't you guys read my comments before going after them?

Tsing Tao · Apr 28, 2012

Quote from Sandybestdog:

So 250,000 gas cars catch fire every year and that's OK because you say it's user generated. Meanwhile three Volt's catch fire weeks after they are crash tested and it's because of faulty design?

Yes, the articles I posted EXPLAIN that it was because of faulty design. I'm not making this shit up. I'm not a mechanic.

Once again, what we have here is failure to communicate. I will post the relevant commentary to this discussion. It's going to be hard to do, because the text all seems to blend together, but I'll try to help a little bit. When you are finally able to piece it together, feel free to have an "aha" moment.

Ready? Here we go...

Quote from Tsing Tao:

I just don't want to catch on fire.

Quote from Sandybestdog:

Do you drive a normal gas car and worry about that? If the answer is no, why worry about it with the Volt? There have been no real world fires yet for some reason people spread false propaganda about it.

Quote from Tsing Tao:

Ah yes, government data to support your claim. I always believe the government. Good play.

Quote from Sandybestdog:

OK, so a couple of Volt's caught on fire in crash tests. The government began investigating. What was their conclusion?

Quote from Tsing Tao:

You asked me to provide evidence that they caught fire. Now I have to do the conclusions of the test for you, too?

Look, I stated that I don't want to buy a Volt. I said why - I don't want to catch on fire. I also don't want to shell out a single dollar to any car company that took tax dollars in a bailout. I'm not alone - a lot of folks feel the same way.

Quote from Sandybestdog:

Sure it's funny, and hugely innaccurate. Sort of like propanganda used by governments. Doesn't really matter if it's true, just as long as it instills fear into people.

OK that's fine. You have the right to not buy one. But why the hatred. You want to get your panties in a wad over a few test vehicles catching on fire when a 250,000 gas powered cars catch fire every year in the real world.

Quote from Tsing Tao:

250,000 gas powered cars don't catch fire because of poor design.

And as for "propanganda" [sic] that the government spits out (we agree on that one), you can't use one government statistic to back up your argument and then call government propaganda hugely inaccurate.

As for "why the hatred", I already explained why. I won't buy a car from a company that took a bailout. That's the true motive behind my decisions.

I then go on to emphasize the bailouts being the primary reason, not the fires. The fires were more laughing about this thread in the beginning.