Chevrolet Sky-Volt

[aimee]

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One of the many unfortunate casualties of General Motors' financial apocalypse is the loss of the Kappa platform, the small, rear-wheel drive architecture underpinning the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky. With both of those brands being discontinued and no plans to migrate any models over to GM's surviving brands, the slow-selling roadsters will simply disappear within the next year.

Another disappointment to GM fans was the transformation of the Chevy Volt from concept to production form. The sporty, aggressive concept was, to many, a generic interpretation of an otherwise revolutionary design.

One of our readers came up with a novel solution to both problems. Just graft the Volt concept nose onto the Sky and install an adaptation of the Voltec powertrain and voila! you have a rival to the Dodge Circuit and Tesla Roadster. From a technical standpoint, the Volt Roadster is theoretically possible. A battery pack could easily fit into the center tunnel, with the drive motor mounted at the rear, but don't get your hopes up -- it's highly-doubtful that it could ever come to production. GM is struggling to finance the development of volume models and a niche product like this just couldn't happen in the foreseeable future.
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VOLCANO CLASSIC

[misslexi]

Can't throw COD under the bus at this stage, nice looking though it may be.

[kingofl337]

Holly crap! That's a hot looking ride, I'd buy one with a 4 banger turbo. I think the Pontiac Solstice was an ugly car, the sky was nice though.

[DaV8or]

Nice idea to use the face lift and migrate the Kappa platform to Chevy. Believe me, us Kappa fans would be thrilled. To build it as a pure EV is possible, but as an E-REV, IMO, is not. As an owner of a Kappa car, I can tell you that there just isn't room. Those that are fans of the Solstice and Sky have been hoping that the planned Kappa II platform (now canceled) would live on at Chevy and maybe Buick. However, it seems that the president and his supporters simply want GM to strip back to just the core of car building and to do what ever Toyota does. ie: no more exciting product. To bad. It was one of the few advantages that Detroit had over Japan. How to make exciting and interesting product.

[yyww2008]

“Another disappointment to GM fans was the transformation of the Chevy Volt from concept to production form. The sporty, aggressive concept was, to many, a generic interpretation of an otherwise revolutionary design. ”