One tidbit I got was from Tim (don’t remember last name) words directly for Bob Boniface.  He said that the inside and outside design were almost frozen.  He also said the size will be  larger than the current Cobalt and that the car sits higher than the show car, and the trunk is larger.

Tagamet #64, thanks for the photos  Thats me # 27 and 28 asking the question about the volt roll out.
I’m on a library computer and about to get kicked off. 

As I have said I am no tree hugger in the traditional sense of the word but that doesn’t mean I WANT to destroy the enviroment… nobody WANTS to destroy the enviroment.

Cost effiecient technology is the only technology that is going to be used enough to "Save the Plantet".  And I see this is the way to go!  Wind and solar are getting closer to powering this country AS THE COST comes down.

I have to laugh when I see articles stating that wind OR solar could power 20% of our power needs ultimately.  What a joke.  If solar covering a roof can power an entire of grid home that means potentially all homes could go off grid.

But I digress… the point is that anyone that thing the groundswell of support and interest in the Volt is by a small group of tree huggers they are just plain wrong.  This die hard hunting and fishing, boat towing, conservative is dying for this type of technology to sweep the auto industry.

The night BEFORE Volt Nation, Lyle was presented an award for breakthrough work in his "day job" at one of the hospitals he uses in his practice of Neurology. She said the thing seemed to weigh about 20 lbs!

She added, they have a 6-yr old son who’s already started his own blog (I wonder how long it’ll be before Lyle’s asking his son, as well as his wife, for help with gm-volt.com!)

I was impressed by this "inside information" …..aren’t you?

You’re right, Tagamet. I decided not to single out any of the many questions (some frankly trivial, many important) that I culled from this site to ask during the meeting, but instead to give Bob Lutz a folder (of 15 copies) directly —enough copies to pass along to key Volt team members if he so choses. I’m still debating whether to post these questions here because I don’t want to start a firestorm of discussion along the lines of "why wasn’t THIS question included instead of THAT one?" ….I’ll first send our tireless leader Lyle a copy of these questions by PM & give him time to offer his wise advise this.  

After everyone else had left Volt Nation, a couple of us (our Thom, also a "technoweenie" & myself) stayed over until much later that night to "chew the rag", visit a few other displays like Nissan’s & Saturn’s & get some pictures. Thom then graciously drove me back to my hotel (it was raining steadily) and all he got in return was the worn-out excuse of an umbrella that’s lived in my briefcase for 10 yrs, forgotten in his car! Thanks a million Thom –toss that piece of s**t umbrella out, as Lutz might say it!!! 

Then  at the last minute I decided to stay over another day (my daughter, her husband & my two precious grandkids of theirs live in Cold Spring NY & he works in NYC). Sooo, paraphasing Mark Twain, my abduction by aliens ….uhh, I meant by GM ….has been greatly exaggerated!

Arch, you may be the best engineer on the planet, but how could you know this when you CAN’T know all the variables that the GM team is juggling? The BS quotient at that meeting was remarkable low (trust me, I’m a shrink who’s fairly well atuned to BS)