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Old 04-06-2012, 05:32 PM   #54 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
It does now, presumably. (I'll take your word on it.) But did it have a high profit margin in the first few years of production, when GM was selling just a few hundred a year? Or was GM deliberately taking a loss for the first few years on a product that they believed would eventually become profitable? (And which was presumably good marketing, etc.)

That's part of the problem, not just with GM but with a lot of the US economy today: too many people who're convinced that anything which isn't an immediate success must be a dismal failure.
That and reactionary emotions that have nothing to do with the car, price or tech.

Some people seem to believe each volt on the road is like killing their first born.

Although I had no real love for the volt, it was people like that, that have made me a somewhat volt fan, even though it voliolates the KISS principle and I will probably never own one. (at least not soon)
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