If you went to the LA Auto Show this year, you find only one Prius on the floor. No model 2010 Prius or any information on the new design. Two Yaris, Two Matrix, two Ven-somethings....and so on. The Prius quietly sits by itself. I guess with sales so good.... why bother encouraging people to consider the Prius? Perhaps the Auto Shows are not the place to really show off a practical, dependable and efficient car. (Just a rant... please don't write me hate mail) P.S. The Chevy Volt was on a turntable display... Still looks like a concept car and quite frankly... I have a gut feeling the Volt will never actually be produced. I'll refer to it as EV1.1 until I actually seen one on the road.<_<
I agree. The Chevy Volt is likely never going to make it to market. Even if it does make it to production, GM is estimating that they will lose money on every single one of them. So don't expect them to ever make them in significant volumes. I think bankruptcy is much more likely.
Re: Volt. Rick Wagoner should drive it (the only one that's in existence?) to DC when he goes to present their plan to Congress, and promptly gift it to the newly re-opened Smithsonian Museum of American History.
The problem is there actually still isn't even 1 in existence. They have 2 separate cars right now that together would be a Volt - they have the body, which they've been showing off all over the country lately, but it just has a standard ICE in it, no plug-in functionality, and then there's the plug-in concept that Lutz drove the other day, but it's inside of a car that is NOT a Volt. I said it like 2 years ago, and I'll say it again now. There will never be a mass production Volt.
