We Warned You This Would Happen! Dealers Begin Refusing Volt Allocations Citing Lack Of Demand

I missed that article. Where did autospies post that?

http://autospies.com/news/So-Much-For-Salvation-All-Signs-Point-Towards-Volt-Becoming-Chevrolet-s-Next-Sales-Flop-66983/

The guy can't spell correctly or create a headline to save his life but he can pull articles out of his ass like a reference librarian.

" that hands out more WELFARE CHECKS THAN ANOTHER PREZ IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD."

- And the majority of those welfare checks are handed out to white people

Well $50K for an economy car makes you wonder about the core logic there.

It is not quite economy, and it is not $50k. Fully loaded it is $46k and you can have one for $40k. Add the controversial tax credits and it goes down to $33k. Yes it is expensive, but come on!

Have the people that love to hate this car so much ever sat in one or maybe driven it?

Funny, 009 keeps posting Volt pictures of the first production model (2008 prototype http://bit.ly/zDy8FT ) instead of the final production one for sale ( http://bit.ly/wI7LEY side mirrors giving it away among spoilers and headlight design).

I think 009 is a secret Volt admirer and needs to come out of the garage and admit it. Why would he otherwise be so preoccupied and post Volt articles one after the other? I mean if the Volt is not selling so well, it is such a bad idea, and a product of the "corrupt" gov't, the "evil" GM, and the "criminal" UAW cartel, why should we care?

Where did you pull this new $8000 tax credit number from? Weren't you advocated a $50k tax credit earlier today? Still, it's no $73.76 tax credit that would match what they spent on the auto bailout lol.

advocating*

Didn't GM have another car back in the 80's that was also a fire box - Pontiac Fiero or something like that. I knew this car would be a BUST!!!. From the beginning when the MPGs didn't match up to the battery fire problems.

It's unfortunate the car isn't selling, frankly the Volt is the only vehicle of its type I'd actually consider owning. I live in the suburbs and don't have charging stations at both ends of my daily commute, and crazy me, I use my car as an actual car (meaning I sometimes take trips with it of more than 80 miles, and can't be sidelined for 18 hours charging the car every 90 minutes of drive time). A trip to Chicago or Detroit for me would take four hours in a Volt, or a regular car. It would take four DAYS in a Leaf, each way. As such, the Leaf has zero viability to me personally. And yet it is selling apparently, and the Volt isn't.

I agree. the old GM ev1 could get 100 miles, you'd think with all the advancements in technology you could make an electric car go more than 100 miles by now. Not a big volt fan but it is the better choice of the two by far. In fact given the range and outside looks I'd take it over a prius anyday, and this is coming from someone who doesn't like American cars. But I am not a fanboy blindly worshiping a car maker and then deeming everyone else inferior. I can separate truth from my own personal feelings.

It's funny that dealers are refusing their allocation of Volts when their "market adjustment" chased more than a few potential customers to another marque.

Not exactly rocket science to predict that the Volt would be a flop - didn't 90% of the posters here predict it would be a flop before Autospies? Autospies waited until September (when the sales numbers for the year were mostly in, duh!) while its posters called "flop" when the original specs came out.

Posters also correctly predicted the BMW 5GT would be a flop.

Autospies, if you're going to go out on a limb and predict, do so in the first quarter, don't wait until the 4th quarter.