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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
All well and good, but then why did chevy sell so few volts? Including discounts and rebates.
I believe they made more VW safari's in 3 years than total volts.
Cant wait for $5.00 a gallon fuel.
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Because they were at least 15 if not 20k more than a similar normal car. Even with $5 gas that buys a lot of mile. The Prius is also about 10k more than a normal car that size but proved to be very reliable and pretty normal.
More and more I am starting to long for the essence of simplicity in a car. All of this expense and complexity for what seems like minimal returns. I wonder where the sweet spot was. Cars from the 70s and 80s had complex emissions and fuel systems prone to fail but today's cars put the first space shuttle to shame with wiring and computers also glitchy as could be when old. Maybe late 90s early 2000s.