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2009-12-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Jeager Panda5130 2009-12-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Okay...I had hopes for the Volt but now I want to puke.

Posted by 3dc 2009-12-15 00:18|| 2009-12-15 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 So You Think You Can Dance. Seriously, this looks like standard car show stuff -- only with modestly clad dancing girls (and guy) instead of evening-gowned models.

Posted by trailing wife 2009-12-15 00:29|| 2009-12-15 00:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Seems to me a handful of engineers created the Tesla at an insignificant cost, and that the Tesla would hand the Volt its own a$$ hands down in almost every respect.

Posted by gorb 2009-12-15 02:13|| 2009-12-15 02:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Please file under clowns and circuses.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-12-15 04:48|| 2009-12-15 04:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Were they really serious? I've seen 4th grade dance recitals that were better than that.

Posted by Varmint Glunter7711 2009-12-15 08:25|| 2009-12-15 08:25|| Front Page Top

#6 looks like we know "who killed the electric car"

Posted by 746 2009-12-15 09:39|| 2009-12-15 09:39|| Front Page Top

#7 I half expected to see Ed Begley Jr pop in for a cameo at some point...

Posted by OldSpook 2009-12-15 09:48|| 2009-12-15 09:48|| Front Page Top

#8 I hope the VP's whose nephew he hired to do this was well compensated. On'es dignity is difficult to buy back.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-12-15 09:50|| 2009-12-15 09:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Looks like they're trying to make me NOT buy it.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-12-15 11:45|| 2009-12-15 11:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Just remember who paid for this Crap, El Floppo, Chevy, also called GM for Government Motors.
Hell I could build an Electric Vehicle, the engineering dates back before the Gasoline Car.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-12-15 13:09|| 2009-12-15 13:09|| Front Page Top

#11 The Tesla also costs $110,000. I recently bought a 35mpg Hwy Chevy compact for less than $12K. So no sale. I rather have that and $105K left in the bank (w/ tax).

As for the dancing girls, marketers study who their target audience is. Half of them have an IQ less than 100.

Posted by ed 2009-12-15 13:54|| 2009-12-15 13:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Cheesy commercial. Not exactly an advertising triumph.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-12-15 14:04|| 2009-12-15 14:04|| Front Page Top

#13 BTW, while I think the Volt is a good effort, I believe the battery economics is not here yet to support 40mile electric range. Instead a 4-5Kwh battery (w/ option to double it) would give a range of 10-15 miles (20-30 miles) and would cost around half the Volt's price and would benefit even when the gas engine is running (acting as a hybrid car) and get another 30% mpg boost (50% city). Toyota's Prius PHEV is going to own this market.

Posted by ed 2009-12-15 14:42|| 2009-12-15 14:42|| Front Page Top

#14 As for the dancing girls, marketers study who their target audience is. Half of them have an IQ less than 100

Then I must be in the 90% whose IQ is over 100. ;-)

Posted by gorb 2009-12-15 15:52|| 2009-12-15 15:52|| Front Page Top

#15 Well, at least we have some tangible proof of a few jobs "saved or created" by the Porkulus...I counted 23 right there.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-12-15 16:12|| 2009-12-15 16:12|| Front Page Top

#16 Don't be distracted by the dancing girls. Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Chrysler LLC, now known as Old Carco LLC, filed a reorganization plan, giving nothing back to the U.S. for its loans under the Troubled Asset Relief Program while repaying some secured lenders in full.

The rough outline of a Chapter 11 plan, filed in Manhattan bankruptcy court today, says the U.S. wont recover anything from its $4 billion TARP loan.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-12-15 16:18|| 2009-12-15 16:18|| Front Page Top

#17 says the U.S. wont recover anything from its $4 billion TARP loan.
So Anguper are you saying that the taxpayers had done to them what this commercial is implying.

Posted by tipper 2009-12-15 21:13|| 2009-12-15 21:13|| Front Page Top

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