many are flood cars, not worth even looking at, all mechanical and electrical are junk on those normally, heck even door hinges sometimes lock solid.

about the only use for flood cars is body...

Wait a year and you can get a 2013 demo.

Multiple small injections per stroke smooths it out nicely.

That is how they burned E85 in a diesel.

Also Carbon buildup can be blamed for a good chunk of original DI issues and Hi compression...

A non-turbo 3 banger in the 1ltr area would be an ideal fuel miser for the volt, remember folks the genset on the 3 banger can be used to electronically dampen the motors surges making it smoother...

Exactly!

Except in mud and snow higher pressures will always provide better overall handling with the exception of impact shock issues, your modern suspension should handle these without loss of...

Yes you need an additional button and the logic to control that button.

GM could offer a software only hold mode to those who want to loose the mountain mode button, it just would behave slightly...

This isn't entirely accurate, at low speeds a 5kw diesel genset is more efficient than the volts motor due to the BSFC at low speeds, 60-80mpg is possible if the genset ran while you drove 25mph or...

Yeah, try to buy one, even if you have a salvage car and valid VIN you can't buy one PERIOD. To get a volt battery you would need to bring the car to a gm dealer, it would also need to be under...

Some modern hybrids, evs and other vehicles can have certain components taken out stand alone and operate to some extent. My insight is a good example of certain components by design being able to...

I don't know, my 01 honda insight can peak 100mpg easily at 30mph during the summer (we are talking the average of a lower speed full tank)

The insight isn't even that impressive aero and weight...

This mentality has been refuted many times, the trouble is the scale of production req. and the fact that we would need to design components to have a production run longer than 5 years.

In any...

Stupid to burn an expensive cord when the 20 year old outlet fails. Needless to say outlets do fail and some are total junk to begin with, toss that outlet and get a decent one, a 20 amp model is...

The one parts place that gets linkied to here often lists a replacement volt battery as about $27XX, I wonder if that is the whole thing like the picture points to or if it is just 1 of the 3...

anyone actually try to buy a replacement volt battery yet? I am rather curious if it is even possible without a core.

Like ULSD diesel, altering gasoline requirements will have hidden and unforseen consequences.

My take is if the government wants to do this they should instead associate ths new gasoline with a...

I was going to comment to this affect, it doesn't much matter what vehicle I drive or whether I am accelerating, coasting or slowing there is always someone tailgaiting, it seems to happen most when...

The trouble is with the state of receptacles and wiring in most us households, general rule of thumb is to use it until failure.

This means Johnboy plugs his volt into his 80yr old receptacle in...

My 1981 ev has a dial by the charge plug in that allows me to select any charge rate from 0 - 20 amps out of the wall. I have both a 20 amp, 25 amp and a 30 amp 110v receptacle on the garage, seems...

I would consider the smallest battery option IFF

1. The volt with the small battery was lightened and aerostreamed significantly.
2. Had significantly higher fuel economy in its gas modes.

If...

They should offer a volt ECO, use ULSB and inexpensive composites (for interior, padding, seats and things like the hood) and narrow and airstream the body a bit more (aka lengthen it a foot or two)....