Laugh or cry?

[Dr. Jones]

https://www.examiner.com/article/anylysts-gm-losing-49-000-on-each-chevy-volt-built

 

[Dr. Jones]

Dang phone..

. General Motors Co sold a record number of Chevrolet Volt sedans in August — but that probably isn't a good thing for the automaker's bottom line since each rolled off the production line posting up to of a $49,000 loss.

GM’s “path-breaking plug-in hybrid” touted by GM and President Obama during the auto-bailout, after two years in production, costs the company about that much for every Volt it manufactures, according to experts.

The enormous losses might explain why the Volt plant was recently retooled to build other GM products, according to a Reuters report.

 

[Deleted member 848]

Definitely laughed out loud. Ohhhh General Motors

 

[candrew]

Gotta love it - GM had been behind the curve on every major car innovation over the last 40 years. They're finally investing with long term vision and people are killing them over short term losses.

Dumbasses.

 

[Dr. Jones]

Gotta love it - GM had been behind the curve on every major car innovation over the last 40 years. They're finally investing with long term vision and people are killing them over short term losses.

Dumbasses.

You might have missed where they're retrofitting to manufacture alternative vehicles .. because the Volt is losing so much money.
I really was just making a joke about the irony.

 

[One Brow]

Hybrids have been around for a while. Why is GM, specifically, losing so much monehy on them?

 

[PearlWatson]

Hybrids have been around for a while. Why is GM, specifically, losing so much monehy on them?

It costs 89k to produce and the base price is 40k.
Also you can lease one for 2 years @ 5k.

 

[Scat]

Did you also know that 7 out of every 10 Chevys are made outside the US? And that Chevy is moving thousands of jobs to China?

 

[larryselbows]

BluesRocker drives a Chevy Volt!

 

[franklin]

2,831 sales in August = $17,000,000 subsidy for rich folks who can afford $40,000.00 vehicles. Thanks Obama!

 

[One Brow]

It costs 89k to produce and the base price is 40k.
Also you can lease one for 2 years @ 5k.

What a remarkable ability to miss the point of the question.

 

[PearlWatson]

What a remarkable ability to miss the point of the question.

Lolz
Learn to make statements if you have a point to make.

 

[TheSilencer1313]

Did you also know that 7 out of every 10 Chevys are made outside the US? And that Chevy is moving thousands of jobs to China?

Thanks to the Clinton administrations free trade agreements with the U.N., that are still in place to this day.

 

[TheSilencer1313]

What a remarkable ability to miss the point of the question.

Do not cross the almighty One Brow.

 

[One Brow]

Lolz
Learn to make statements if you have a point to make.

My rhetorical question was sufficient for those that have the wit to understand the issue, and for those without, no statement would ever suffice.

 

[One Brow]

Do not cross the almighty One Brow.

It thickens with age.

 

[PearlWatson]

My rhetorical question was sufficient for those that have the wit to understand the issue, and for those without, no statement would ever suffice.

I don't think framing "all envirowaco inspired hybrids are dismal failures like Solyndra" as a rhetorical question is as witty as you think.

 

[Scorpjazz]

But, but, Bin laden is dead and GM is alive.....yay?

 

[One Brow]

I don't think framing "all envirowaco inspired hybrids are dismal failures like Solyndra" as a rhetorical question is as witty as you think.

Because there are no successful hybrid cars in the US market, nor any successful solar panel companies?