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Title: GM Expands Chevrolet Volt Orders To All 50 States, Lowers Price
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DETROIT FREE PRESS
URL Source: http://www.freep.com/article/201106 ... tates-lowers-price?odyssey=tab
Published: Jun 10, 2011
Author: CHRISSIE THOMPSON
Post Date: 2011-06-10 13:00:24 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 52928
Comments: 110
General Motors opened up orders for the Chevrolet Volt to all 50 states today, lowering the base price for the 2012 model by about $1,000 and adding four option packages. The 2012 Volt will start at $39,995, including delivery, and customers may be eligible for a $7,500 federal tax credit. GM was able to lower the base price because the car has more optional content now that it's available nationally, the automaker said today in a statement. The 2011 Volt had been available in eight states and Washington, D.C., and only had three option packages. GM is expanding Volt ordering as it prepares to add two shifts worth 2,500 jobs to the Detroit-Hamtramck plant that builds the car. Volt engineers are seeking to cut the car's cost through powertrain and production improvements, which will mostly be used to make the car profitable, rather than slash the price for consumers. GM plans this year to build 16,000 of the Volt and its European version, the Opel Ampera. That includes about 3,500 for overseas delivery and 2,500 as demos at dealerships. Next year, GM plans to build 60,000 Volts at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant, with 45,000 designated for the U.S. Detroit-Hamtramck this spring discontinued its other two cars, the Cadillac DTS and Buick Lucerne, leaving it free to build just Volts until the 2013 Malibu starts production next year. The factory will also assemble the next-generation Chevrolet Impala, expected to start production by 2013. The plant is in a four-week shutdown to update for Volt and Malibu production. After it restarts, the factory will start adding the second shift of workers, with the third to start at an undisclosed future date.
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#10. To: Brian S (#0)
LMAO!!! Translation: nobody's buying this turd, so we have to lower the price to bring in the suckers. These government idiots think that Americans will willingly buy a shit- sandwich, if they lower the price by $1000. They could lower it by $30,000, and it'll STILL be a shit-sandwich, no matter HOW much you try to dress it up.
That must be why dealers are marking them up an additional $10,000 or so. http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=20920&Disp=0
They're dropping the price and now they are raising the price. Do you know anything at all, princess?
General Motors Confirms 2,500 New Jobs Coming at Chevrolet Volt Plant Detroit assembly line will quadruple plug-in production, add Chevy Malibu and Impala models. by Paul A. Eisenstein on May.25, 2011 ollowing up on an earlier announcement that it would invest $2 billion in 17 U.S. plants, General Motors today provided additional details confirming it will add 2,500 jobs at the Detroit plant producing the well-publicized Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid. Known as the “Poletown” plant, the factory will add a second shift later this year and is expected to introduce a third shift later on as it takes on several additional product lines. Among other things, the factory is beginning to roll out a European version of the Volt, called Opel Ampera, which GM believes will increase demand enough to support the production of 60,000 plug-ins next year – about four times more than it expects to produce in 2011. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yep...they are hiring people and expanding the model line from 16K to 60K because no one is buying the car.
Wow. A 3:1 ratio. I must have struck a nerve or you hate to be ignored. I'm guessing both.
Huh? Babble on your own time, Rudy and save the bandwidth.
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Whats amusing is the carbon footprint left behind the manufacturing of these pieces of shit.
These are nice cars that fill a niche. Eugene uses these for parking control duties and this saves them money. They are a lot cheaper and easier to use compared to their conventional small gasoline powered vehicles. In a congested metropolitan area small efficient vehicles make a great deal of sense. As does the use of every range of bicycle from three speed antique to a truck bike that can deliver many things faster and more efficiently than a motorized vehicle.
False. Over the expected lifetime of these toys, the costs exceed a normal vehicle. And again, the CARBON FOOTPRINT left behind during the manufacturing process is GIGANTIC. And totally undermines the alleged reason for building them in the first place.
Your fantasies about manufacturing are your problem.
Boofer has a lot of "fantasies"..."the costs exceed a normal vehicle" being yet another one. IN fact, the projected cost is that a Volt will be cheaper to operate and maintain than a "normal vehicle"...
Exactly. And I am familiar with the facility currently being used to manufacture this Eugene, OR made vehicle. It too is very economical to build, and the people who designed it are incredibly ecologically savvy on ow to keep it's cost down and it's production footprint small and shallow.
The only daily fantasy on this website is wee willie's homosexual one's.
#52. To: Badeye (#49)
Saw this after posting. End of discussion if this is your focus.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestGeneral Motors opened up orders for the Chevrolet Volt to all 50 states today, lowering the base price for the 2012 model by about $1,000 and adding four option packages.
#15. To: Capitalist Eric (#10)
Translation: nobody's buying this turd, so we have to lower the price to bring in the suckers.
#17. To: war (#15)
That must be why dealers are marking them up an additional $10,000 or so.
#20. To: Rudgear (#17)
#21. To: war (#20)
#22. To: Rudgear (#21)
#24. To: war (#22)
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#25. To: Ferret Mike (#24)
#28. To: Badeye (#25)
#40. To: Ferret Mike (#28)
They are a lot cheaper and easier to use compared to their conventional small gasoline powered vehicles.
#41. To: Badeye (#40)
#42. To: Ferret Mike (#41)
#43. To: war (#42)
"Boofer has a lot of "fantasies"..."the costs exceed a normal vehicle" being yet another one. IN fact, the projected cost is that a Volt will be cheaper to operate and maintain than a "normal vehicle"... "
#49. To: Ferret Mike (#43)
Replies to Comment # 49. "The only daily fantasy on this website is wee willie's homosexual one's."
#53. To: Badeye (#49)
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The only daily fantasy on this website is wee willie's homosexual one's [sic].
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