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You people in the USA might never have heard about the Renault Laguna II. The Renault Laguna II was “developed faster than any car in the history before! Just 18 months”… well, people who bought it did notice it, too…

Thus I rather wait until 2010…2011…or whenever the Volt finally turns up here in Europe. But I want a well-tested, well-built, preferably non-exploding car!

I’m sure GM will use its fleet of prototype cars in 2010 for all kinds of publicity stunts. I’m pretty sure Jay Leno will end up driving around in one. And Tom Hanks (wasn’t he the one who had an EV-1 before?). And perhaps even our own Lyle

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- HELLO, wtf are you talking.. Yes we could notice it was the ” first” car who had 5 stars in euroNcap test… 18 months development yes.
They had troubles with engine yes.. they improved that later on.

Not to get off subject, but Charles Lane article in the Washington Post was a joke. He knows nothing about the automotive industry. Look at his background. Why he was chosen to write such a terrible article is beyond me. He is part of that “eastern establishment” that hasn’t a clue how the world turns.

1966 – 607,568
1965 – 559,451
1964 – 121,538

i believe gm is much bigger now then ford was then the assembly line technology and robotics that exist today were absent back then, yet they produced these amazing numbers, imagine what half of these numbers would do for gm when the volt comes out

2013 – 300,000
2012 – 275,000
2011 – 60,000

i hope gm uses ford’s aggressive advertisement campaign and one night in November 2010 we will catch the same identical volt commercial on ABC, NBC, and CBS, heck maybe even FOX for good measure

the point is it can be done, if the desire is truely there

Meeting the Nov. date seems to be a ridiculous proposition at this time. Maybe with 1 car as stated in 138, 139.

Well before GMs fortunes made the front pages, before our economic crisis wave actually hit the shores, GM and others were claiming that the schedule was very tight and that there was no room for error. The Volt was the equivalent of the moon shot.

WIth GM essentially bankrupt now and living only on Govt. handouts, how can they continue with a moon shot schedule?

GM is affected by this financial mess. They have two choices.

1. Cut corners on the Volt to meet schedule. Deliver a car that they could have or would have done a better job on if they were not bankrupt.

2. Delay the vehicle so that all testing and development can be accomplished in the way that the engineers want it to be.

BYDDY have raise 100% start from April !!!!