Canadian sub forum?

[therfman]

Hello,

Would it be possible to have a Canadian sub-forum somewhere on here? the Canadian thread is getting rather jumbled, and at over 31000 views, there's probably good enough reason to have a sub-forum where topics can be split up.

Cheers,

[solar_dave]

Hello,

Would it be possible to have a Canadian sub-forum somewhere on here? the Canadian thread is getting rather jumbled, and at over 31000 views, there's probably good enough reason to have a sub-forum where topics can be split up.

Cheers,

Why a seperate forum, just post along with the rest of us in the main headings, then create some specific Canuck threads if needed. You problems and issues will be the same for us USA folks, and soon perhaps the EU crowd.

[Rusty]

I didn't create that thread (or sticky it) but it was my impression it's original intent was for a place to discuss those issues that are particularly Canadian in the process of buying or leasing a Volt.

Once you've got one, other than L-to-G and K-to-M conversions I'd think there isn't all *that* much difference between the Canadian Volt experience and the US Volt experience (at least, if you own a Volt and you live in Fargo :- )

Hopefully the original sticky-er will add their thoughts, but I'm inclined to agree with solar_dave. You're all Volt owners now just like the rest of us!

[therfman]

That does make sense. My reasoning was to spare the Americans the threads about Canadian rebates, dealers and such things that probably aren't of interest. Local meetings are probably not that interesting either to the general readership.

[Brittt1]

Why a seperate forum, just post along with the rest of us in the main headings, then create some specific Canuck threads if needed. You problems and issues will be the same for us USA folks, and soon perhaps the EU crowd.

I would respectfully disagree, one thing from other forums I am active on and especially car forums where there are events, meetups etc is the ability to post/read the local events and other relevant local threads in a dedicated sub-forum. It's always the first place I would catch up before hitting the main forum. Northeast, southeast, mid Atlantic, Canada east, west, central, etc. For those folks that just hit 'what's new' I don't think it's an inconvenience.

[voltoronto]

That does make sense. My reasoning was to spare the Americans the threads about Canadian rebates, dealers and such things that probably aren't of interest. Local meetings are probably not that interesting either to the general readership.

There are many common issues, but as a follower the Canadian thread, it is pretty crazy jumping down some 60 pages to get to the most recent comments. Topics are all mixed together,etc.

So i agree with therfman about having sub threads...or do we have to start our site, where we can freely toss out comments like "check out this Volt, eh" and "we got 85 km on a charge, while it was -2c and the was 3 cm of snow on the ground,eh. I was gonna buy some gas at the Petrocan, but it was $1.40 a litre, eh"

[Rusty]

one thing from other forums I am active on and especially car forums where there are events, meetups etc is the ability to post/read the local events and other relevant local threads in a dedicated sub-forum.

This has been mentioned before, just amongst the US Volt folk. IMHO (and spoken as just any ol' forum member, not as a moderator) the community of Volt owners is as yet too small to benefit from fractionalization. For MY '11 there's only some 3000 of us or so (plus the demos when they hit the market). For CY '11 we'll total some 15000 if GM makes their forecast.

Sure that's a lot of Volts. But compared to the hundreds of thousands of buyers of most models, it's a pittance. So personally I think we all benefit from broad exposure to all of the Volt communities.

Next year, when they add another 100K Volts on the road? Yeah, that'll probably get too cumbersome to handle in a single set of forums if any significant percentage of them all start to hang out and contribute here. Certainly if the Volt is the massive success most all of us here hope it is (and it's lineage!) the things'll have to split up.

So while I think we want to head that way, personally I don't think that at this point we'd be solving a problem that needs solving right now.

[wainair]

So i agree with therfman about having sub threads...or do we have to start our site, where we can freely toss out comments like "check out this Volt, eh" and "we got 85 km on a charge, while it was -2c and the was 3 cm of snow on the ground,eh. I was gonna buy some gas at the Petrocan, but it was $1.40 a litre, eh"

Eh Hoser, take it easy with the metric, eh. Ya don't want to confuse the neighbours and cause a kerfuffle eh. Gotta go, zip to the LCBO and pick up a mickey of CC and stop at Tim's for some timbits and a double double.

Cheers!

[stephent]

I don't think there are enough Canadian specific issues to warrant a completely separate forum. But it's also silly to stick everything in a single thread, IMO. Why not just start separate threads per topic, and if you think the subject is of little interest to non-Canadians, just write the subject as:
Canada: [some issue title]
or
CAN: [???]

Feel free to use metric, I need practice thinking in metric terms anyway . Silly for someone with an engineering degree, but growing up in U.S. I only have a sense of traveling distances in miles. I think for U.S. natives, only those with military training have a good sense of distances in km. Perhaps also 1k-10k distance runners.

[admin]

http://www.cruzetalk.com/forum/37-chevy-cruze-regions/
I can set something like this up on the forum?

It helps members communicate with people close by, because knowing your neighbors helps