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Originally Posted by srortega
I am just curious, what does any of this have to do with Volt not being produced?  |
This thread has gone off topic more times than I can count, and I'm guilty for much of that. For now I must subscribe to the belief that the Volt will be put into production because I know people on the inside that are talking about GM already starting, or planing to get ready for the first stages of tooling up next year. The real question I now have is what will The Volt Cost?? If the Engineers are right and it cost $40,000 AND it's still not viable, or at $40,000 it is still being sold at a loss, then I don't see the car selling as well as GM/Chevy is betting on. I also strongly feel that selling this car at a loss will look very bad to the American and Canadian Governments, which along with The UAW now that combined, own the bulk of GM. The taxpayer may not like the idea of such a huge "bailout"/loan if they see cars are sold at a loss. (MY POV) It may seem logical to some, but I have serious doubts that the average people with little sense of business will be happy to learn their tax money was given to a company that has it's future leveraged in a car they sell for less than it cost to build. So I for one will be very interested in the actual selling price for The Volt when it finally hits production.