It’s because our lefties are anti-american, so GM, please stop trying to satisfy this trash and think about mainstream real america and the fact that we need oil independence. I’d say put the importance of environmental protection and being pro-american and for oil independence at the same level because all of those ideals are probably equal in importance. No one likes smog, real americans love their country and most americans agree that oil independence is important. Don’t put anything that sounds anti-oil company or anti-free market, or anti-american which is what you would have to do to get the far left trash to like you, it’s not worth it.

“Remember the discussions of how recharge time is limited by the charging circuit and not be the battery. If the race depended on it, we would find out “experimentally” if that was so.”

That’s a great point, and enough to get me off the fence concerning electric racing.

And no, I wasn’t suggesting that the Southeast isn’t covered over with V8 yahoos. Show them something faster, though, and you won’t keep them away. A race might be just the sort of thing to demonstrate the reality of the situation.

How’d ya’ll like my video? I was actually looking for another clip I’d seen where that same electric X1 beat the pants off a NASCAR racer (was it on Mythbusters?), but that one was good enough.

“Thinking that PR about a car that won’t exist for two years would influence sales of unrelated cars today seems far fetched.”

So much about the car business is far-fetched PR. How else to explain the adage which ruled racing and car sales for years:

“Win on Sunday, buy on Monday.”

The race fans in the showroom on Monday can’t buy the stock-shell overly hyped-up racecar that won the previous day’s race, but dealers used to swear by that principle.

Consider also the PR effect of a film based on a car that hadn’t existed in years, at the time of it’s release, on GM: “Who Killed the Electric Car.”

Public opinion (it pains me to admit) has more to say about an auto brand than actual nuts and bolts.

Of course, Statik has shot down my Volt-bump premise with his explanation of accounting ledgerdemain (sigh). Though if I’m right, the effect will last past the next month or two. It is another two years before the car appears.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqqtJpfZElQ