Comments on: Should GM Skip the Volt and Just Make More Efficient Gas Cars?

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:36:13 +0000

GM Should move towards the electric car, Hydrogen fuel cell etc.Help dev. the infra structure for fuel cell fill up. Develop solar power sources to produce H2 and phase out of gasoline operated vehicles in time.GM produes some outstanding automobiles, and that’s their direction. And don’t build cars that look like sciion, or prius, style them with the more rally look of a vett, or saturn sky type look. And find ways to give the electrics the power of a V8, like the Tesla car.

By: Stabe

Stabe — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:54:16 +0000

GM should pursue both.. But first decapitate the “skunk works resistant” upper management. The market screams for specific types of vehciles yet GM’s “safe” rule by committee keeps getting it wrong and LATE! I am actually somewhat amazed that the Volt concept got as far as it did before the fuddy duddies at the top (who would be better off being tied to the Buick Division – caterers of ole fartz, and cast off!) did not kill it. I bought my last GM with the 98 Pontiac Grand Prix. It is a piece of plastic schitte and I was reminded of its “luxuriousness” everytime I got into it compared to import interiors at the same price point! It’s value in price retention? Don’t even go there!!! GM can’t even market a decent small vehicle, just look at the Aveo – more garbage!

By: Jonathon Corbridge

Jonathon Corbridge — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:02:08 +0000

I’d love to buy a GM car. Do the followign and I will:
Make them as reliable as a Ford or a Toyota
Stop designing cars for NASCAR wannabes.
Build an interior that’s more like a BMW and less like a Chevy Cobolt.

In short – take what you did in the Malibu, and trasnlate it across your platforms.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:13:54 +0000

Yes, you are correct; I was a bit hyper when I wrote that comment. Sometimes this happens, when I a bit too hyper….

I did read it, but it was after the fact, i.e. a bit too late.

However, what I was trying to express, is simply this; the old control how we think and want we buy, they tell us, we don’t need it, because they don’t want it.

Think about it. Has this not happen to any of you? You go to work, and you have a better way to get some process done. But Mr. or Mrs. Oldie refuses to change or even look at a proposed new idea. Oh let me point out these individuals don’t have to be old in age, but he or she acts old and thinks old.

You know the type. They start a sentence with “I’ve been doing this for the last xx years”, and simply blow you off with “That won’t work, just keep doing it this way”.

Well, I’m 50 and I’m just tired of hearing “It can’t be done” because some old stuck in the past can’t accept new ways of doing and thinking.

This is what this Mr. White guy sounds like to me.

By: davea0511

davea0511 — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:47:23 +0000

“let the young mine (or young thinging mines) take control.”

he he he.

By: kevin R

kevin R — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:56:19 +0000

I too don’t usually correct one’s spelling and grammar but your post #169 was so ill written that it makes you sound like you have a 3rd grade education.

Write, re-read, spell check, re-read and then post. Your credibility goes down the tube when you don’t sound intelligent…writing well is all about that!

By: Jim I

Jim I — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:52:24 +0000

Ken:

I normally do not make posts like this, but I have to tell you that your spellling and syntax are so horrible as to make your post almost impossible to read and understand.

I would be a bit worried if “young thinging mines” are what is going to take control………….

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:35:09 +0000

Mr. While, like all the Dinosoars in this country, always beleive in doing something quick and fast, never the long thought out plan. This is why we are in the mess we are in now. Let’s take a step back when the 1st VCR was created, so dinosoar said it was dumb and Japan made it we brough it. When hybirs were created some dumb dinosoar said nope and Japan once again created it, we brought it. We the we said we wanted a better cellphone the other countries tried, but finally APPLE, gave us what we wanted and we brought it. Let look at Apple, and for once give use what we want an electric car, not just another fuel saving vehicle be a change of life vehicle. Tell White and he old dinosars to stay home with there old ideas. We want new ideas, get those old people out of control in the U S of A and let the young mine (or young thinging mines) take control.

By: Catherine O'Connor

Catherine O'Connor — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:28:30 +0000

We have one 16 yr. old car and we were going to buy a new one this year, ,however, with fuel prices and the oil speculation continually raising prices, we are now going to wait until we can buy an electric car and let the Arabs drown in their own oil and greed. We need to drill and use our own oil, coal and develop new more eco-friendly solutions too. Smaller cars..America.. now is the time!

By: realtorron

realtorron — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:31:57 +0000

I am afraid I will not be buying another car until I can buy an all electric. I am sick of the oil companies monopoly in the market place, and Tesla has shown the world that the electric can be produced. GM, if they want to get out of the tank will get the VOLT into production, everyone will buy it. The battery technology is matured. Then make a great sedan, and then trucks and suv’s. Electric is green, not hybrid. They need to beat toyota and honda to their own game.