Don Diego's Dream Car

The all new 2016 Volt
DonDiego is a mite more old-school:




And for serious driving, DonDiego prefers the Detroit Electric Convertible, which had a range of up to 80 miles, . . . 30 miles further than the Volt:

Even with $20,000 of subsidies, Boilerman is not excited enough to buy a Government Motors Volt.
542 of these turkeys were sold in January, it's worst month in 4 years.

I remember when PJ said there was a backlog of 50,000 orders for this car


Imagine sales if the price wasn't artificially lowered by $20,000.

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Originally posted by: hoops2
542 of these turkeys were sold in January, it's worst month in 4 years.

I remember when PJ said there was a backlog of 50,000 orders for this car


GM gives $9000 bonus checks to workers

Turns out "government motors" didn't go bankrupt again like Boilerman promised it would. Instead it continues to provide lots of permanent jobs for US workers....high paying jobs....$9k bonus check jobs.
I'm glad our automobile sector was not outsourced to Japan in 2009 like both Boilerman and Hoops advocated. I'm willing to bet all those high paid workers agree - and so do the small businesses where those workers spend their paychecks.

And as for the highly controversial move into the electric car market....well, what car company isn't making electric cars now? Or plans to in the very near future? All those anti-advancement arguments against GM a few years ago seem rather silly now. Oh wait - Hoops and Boilerman are still making them now. Readers should consider their history on this topic. I give them credit for still trying to make the hilarious arguments that even Mitt Romney was forced to abandon when he saw the facts. Good times, good times.
Boiler will support any of these technologies once they become economically competitive...........and some will. Spending money on R&D for new technologies makes great sense, yet putting those now inefficient technologies into production is a waste of money which could be better spent elsewhere.


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Originally posted by: pjstroh
GM gives $9000 bonus checks to workers

Turns out "government motors" didn't go bankrupt again like Boilerman promised it would. Instead it continues to provide lots of permanent jobs for US workers....high paying jobs....$9k bonus check jobs.
I'm glad our automobile sector was not outsourced to Japan in 2009 like both Boilerman and Hoops advocated. I'm willing to bet all those high paid workers agree - and so do the small businesses where those workers spend their paychecks.

And as for the highly controversial move into the electric car market....well, what car company isn't making electric cars now? Or plans to in the very near future? All those anti-advancement arguments against GM a few years ago seem rather silly now. Oh wait - Hoops and Boilerman are still making them now. Readers should consider their history on this topic. I give them credit for still trying to make the hilarious arguments that even Mitt Romney was forced to abandon when he saw the facts. Good times, good times.


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Originally posted by: hoops2
I remember when PJ said there was a backlog of 50,000 orders for this car


I remember that too! I got my number from a reported source that I provided a link to. And then someone else posted a source that refuted mine....so I conceded the point and admitted my error. Thats what people with integrity do (on both sides of that scenario).

People with no integrity debate without facts or sources ...or limit their contributions to sentences that end with question marks. You might be familiar with one or two people like that around here.
As I have said many times before those auto jobs would never have gone away if GM/Chrysler had been allowed to go thru the normal bankruptcy process.

Due to demand for cars in the US those facilities would have been bought up by other companies and they would have made those cars to fill demand
What Hoops said.


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Originally posted by: hoops2
As I have said many times before those auto jobs would never have gone away if GM/Chrysler had been allowed to go thru the normal bankruptcy process.

Due to demand for cars in the US those facilities would have been bought up by other companies and they would have made those cars to fill demand


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