Volt owners reporting MPG....
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are you really buying it or?
i am being obtuse, but it is one thing to say that you like the car, and another to pay 40k for it, for which you can buy a dozen of assorted luxury cars.
not to mention that 13mile prius will be at least 10k cheaper, and get 30% better mpg outside the range.
i am being obtuse, but it is one thing to say that you like the car, and another to pay 40k for it, for which you can buy a dozen of assorted luxury cars.
not to mention that 13mile prius will be at least 10k cheaper, and get 30% better mpg outside the range.
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and as has been said, in cities it might make sense but then few have garages and i can see 'public' charging points getting vandalized. outside of cities the range and cramped quarters make it pretty worthless and enormously expensive.
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fixed.
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i'm still awaiting tesla to declare bankruptcy, but perhaps that's unlikely with google and toyota backing.
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Even over and above the great gas-mileage and any questions of its gas-engine life-expectancy, I still think the Volt, price-wise, is rip-off (I stated that in the Volt review I did a few months ago). For a car the size of its compact-sized/priced Cruze brother, It starts at a whopping 41K, then usually adds several-thousand more in options and an almost-inevitable dealer 4-5K retail mark-up. So, even with the Federal $7500 tax-credit (and whatever credit the state may or may not give you), you still are looking at a likely 40K or more for a purchase.......an absurd price, IMO, even for a compact car with this level of technology. In addition, the low-contrast dash-ergonomics, IMO, are horrendous, with white buttons on a white center-dash section that is almost impossible to read quickly, and big hole that you have to reach your hand down into to pull the shift-lever out. No thanks.
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That interior looks like it was designed by a Board of Directors with the intention of making it "hip and cool"...except that none of the board members are now...or ever have been...hip or cool.
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GM says that they selected the 30-mile electric range because many American commuters drive less than that per day. It could be a nice suburban car to commute to/from work or the commuter transit station. And if you never use the extended range gas engine, it will automatically switch itself on every once in a while to keep fluids free-flowing and the engine from seizing.
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The dash in the one that I drove was silver. I have no complaints about it. And yes, the Volt is an expensive car, just as the LS600hL is, and the 335d. The first Prius was $20k at a time when the Corolla cost $12,000.
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