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theunchosen: To use your choose of words (closely) I can most certainly say that The Volt WILL see mass Production in greater numbers than a few hundred. How many more? Hard to guess for me.. Please keep in mind I am the original skeptic about The Volt. I am the one that started this thread saying the Volt would not be produced, for the most part. I had my reasons then, as I do now.

I am only 44 years old, but I have spent my entire life time since as far back as I can remember hearing from General Motors workers and retirees talking about what is going on inside GM. Also I read the UAW paper every month, for what it's worth. Not once, not a single time has GM EVER been able to keep a secret from anyone longer than 5 minutes. Yes I would like to see The Volt be the dream car that brings Americans back to buying their own products, let alone customer's in other countries. (BTW: Rumor has it that people in China LOVE Buicks!)- But they may still pull a rabbit out giving how much is at stake now.

GM is starting plans as we converse right now to build The Volt. And based on the job transfers they are planing on building more than a couple hundred; that would not even be enough to transfer the workers. So despite what most of us think and say here, unless GM/Chevy is engaged in a giant stunt, they ARE starting to draw up plans and sending out letters to workers telling them where to get ready to be transferred too in order to to start re-tooling and building The Volt. These things are very hard to keep secret. When I lived in Flint we sometimes knew what car parts to what cars were being designated to certain plants well over a year before the re-tooling. But, one never knows, maybe with all of the bad stuff GM has gone through just maybe they learned something.... maybe.

My point is, GM/Chevy does not seem to be acting as the good members in this thread have. They seem to really believe they can sell some of these cars. However, based on earlier statements it would seem they are also trying to but the damper on too much speculation, which is exactly what myself and many of us are doing here. Only time will really tell.

To play the other side: I have had some serious doubts about this car myself. However, this is based on what we are presently being told about it (and the mules they show). If there is any chance they can keep a secret from the masses, maybe The Volt wont cost so much. Maybe the mules on video will not be as much like the production car. We just will not know for sure until they start up the production line, and that is not due until next summer 2010. We should have a good idea after a couple months of sales as too if GM laid another egg or not. What the competition has to show will matter as well.

So, I am on the fence. If they present The Volt as being another one of the ten mules a month they have been building, and it has a price above $40,000 and seats 4 as a compact with the specs as we now understand them, then I might just agree with you- Yeah, it may not sell very well if they go that way. But until they start producing these cars we can be sure of nothing. With any luck just maybe GM can keep a secret or two for the first time in their history. Only time will tell.

I think this is one car that will either SINK or SWIM. I have my own personal doubts it can fly as a car with low sales. They really need a winner, that's for sure.