You’ve got the technology worked out and there is no reason to not have some data out, here it is the 2nd and we want you on top of this issue. We think a lot of GM but we want to be able to think a lot more by the actions we see.

Get off the pot. Let’s due it and by the way, on your “Want List” there is 48,000 + sign-ups. To limit that down, could there be a GM list of fills by a down payment. Back many years ago that was pretty common to put some money up and have your vehicle made for you at the factory. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to have a special attached plate for less say the first 10,000 buyers. Kinda of like ford did on the Mustang.

I hope to see something to the affect next Tuesday the 2nd as I am really pulling for the team. However, there is that ole nagging feeling of my hometown losers are banking on another win that, they never get.

I hope that Detroit-Hamtramck Plant is full of hope and energy as my 110 AC Volt outlet is just awaiting a Volt to plug in.

Keep us up to snuf on the action. A Volt believer!

Come on, we don’t need something with GM/Chevy logo on it that looks like a toy. If you can spend money on your big honkin vehicles, put together something like you showed in the previous pictures.

Tells us the Chevy Volt fans about this new Chevy Volt Integration Vehicle!! And NO crapola. Gives us the skinny on how you have changed ideas from the original concept. Be up front with us for a change. We already know how the space age plastic did such wonders for the world.

No, Eco, you probably wouldn’t, based on historical full hybrid actual driving behaviors. Visual cues are what matter most in driving (that’s what lets you know that a silent brick wall may not be what you want to run into), Harley loud pipes nonsense notwithstanding. Also, you still have the sound of the tires on the road, although the Volt mule test drive journalist reports have been inconsistent on that topic. Existing full hybrids already do the behavior you describe some of the time (say, on a cold morning). More than a million people got used to it easily without doing weird driving behaviors (in fact, most never noticed the difference in the first place – give retail consumer cluelessness a little credit), so I suppose GM fans could also manage to deal with this non-issue.

Prius quiet on the generator turn on tells me that the Volt is more than ready for prime time this very second. We already have some folks complaining that Priuses are too quiet, so the Volt is obviously already quiet enough with the generator turn on. Tagamet, Pruises don’t come on with a BANG. Have you ever been near one?

For all those fearful of the danger of electric drive quietness, manufacturers now provide vehicles with newfangled automatic special safety sound makers that they call “horns.” Drivers can control these automated sound makers through fine motor coordination of their hands about the steering wheel, to accompany useful hand gestures and gutteral utterances towards other road users.

It would take a worldwide depression to get back down to $2 a gallon gas, Eco. Why do you want a worldwide depression?

Schmeltz, don’t make the perfect be the enemy of the good. GM needs to get these things on the road and there’s no such thing as a perfect vehicle. Why do you think there are hundreds of makes/models, some with more than 55 variations? Consumer preference is all over the map and one vehicle make/model can’t give everyone everything they want (or else we’d still all be driving 40 mpg model As).

@ LauraM 78

Not two years. Just slap a GM badge on Priuses and/or Camry hybrids and Bob’s your uncle. It’s called badge engineering. Perhaps GM could do that with the Toyota Matrix and call it a Pontiac Vibe. I know, crazy thinking on my part.

@ k-dawg 79

Sure you can defend the Volt on pure economics. It’s called consumer preference and consumer demand. Especially for genuinely new product at a middle of the pack price.

Tex-Arl 81
That result never happen with existing full hybrid drivers when that exact situation/noise already happens with them. But I guess you better not ever rent a full hybrid if you think you’ll drive it into tree.

“Golly, I was just driving along and a noise (engine starting) startled me and the car drove into the tree.”

24 Schmeltz
“it sounds like they (GM) wants this car to be flawless , and I welcome that!”

30 Eco
“Given our conditioning, having the engine start up at seemingly random times would be a bit disconcerting. Imagine coasting up to stop sign and applying the brakes, and then the engine comes on…that would feel weird…until I got used to it. I’d probably apply the brakes harder just from instinct.”
“I want to start my own countdown clock…for when gasoline hits 2.00 a gallon again. Won’t be long now.”

75 k-dawg
“You cant justify a Volt purchase based on economic factors “