Wagoner will drive Volt to tomorrows Senate hearings!!

Just received this e-mail alert regarding Volt news. I remember a few posts here in the last few days about the big three making a physical showing of the potential product lineup that will make a difference in the coming years. Looks like GM may have been thinking the same thing.

http://gm-volt.com/2008/12/03/breaking-gm-ceo-will-drive-volt-mule-into-washington-dc-tomorrow/

Do you know how much it cost to build that volt! If they can spend that kind of money on a car just to drive him to DC, then they don't need taxpayer money.



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Do you know how much it cost to build that volt! If they can spend that kind of money on a car just to drive him to DC, then they don't need taxpayer money.

I'm sure he'll drive one of the development prototypes that's already built and in testing. This seems like it will be a good test for it, and at $1/year, it costs less to have Wagoner do it than one of the engineers. :)

GMs CEO Rick Wagoner will be driving one of the Chevy Volt mules in Cruze bodies through Washington DC tomorrow on his way to give testimony to the Senate Finance committee in support of government loans. He wont actually be driving it all the way from Detroit.


What are they going to do, then? Are they going to transport it most of the way there and then have him drive it the last few miles to DC? If that's the case, I can already see the articles being written to criticise that move.

If you read some of the web discussions regarding GM on some of the finance boards, the majority of folks out there keep suggesting that the Volt will save GM and we need it now. I am not convinced. I believe the Chevy Cruze will make a bigger sales impact with the small turbo Ecotec. Additionally its more than half the price of the Volt and is projected to get 45mpg.

Why aren't folks pressing GM to bring the Cruze to North America ASAP? :rolleyes:

Do you know how much it cost to build that volt! If they can spend that kind of money on a car just to drive him to DC, then they don't need taxpayer money.



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It would probably be cheaper to fly on a private jet! :D

Why aren't folks pressing GM to bring the Cruze to North America ASAP? :rolleyes:

I don't know, maybe because GM is already doing just that?

Cruze gets 45mpg... Volt gets 50+ (or significantly better, if you drive close to 40 miles per day).

What are they going to do, then? Are they going to transport it most of the way there and then have him drive it the last few miles to DC? If that's the case, I can already see the articles being written to criticise that move.

Yes, but lets not get into the facts of how much the PR stunt is going to cost versus what it would have cost to use a jet they already had, because facts don't matter.

What are they going to do, then? Are they going to transport it most of the way there and then have him drive it the last few miles to DC? If that's the case, I can already see the articles being written to criticise that move.While I had a similar initial response, all it says is "he won't be driving it all the way from Detroit". That doesn't mean it isn't being driven to DC by someone else; however it does suggest it may be transported to DC. :p

Hope it don't break down...

hope they check the optispark. :)

I think the company jet would've been cheaper! :D

Driving the Volt is probably the best PR thing they could do. Although, i do agree the Cruze has more potential to save the company.


Proving the Volt is a big hurdle. It shows they can move fast, adapt to current market conditions, and not get totally blown away by Honda and Toyota.

There is a problem with this.

You forget, they're doing this for politicians. One of these politicians, when driving her big Buick, noticed it said the mpg was like 33mpg. They then commented that hitting the 35mpg cafe standard should be easy because the auto manufacturers are clearly "so close already"... :rolleyes:

I wonder the likelyhood of them saying "you drove one here, so clearly its on the road so clearly its in production. Why arent you selling them already?"

This could backfire even if Wagoner drove it from detroit. Actually, that'd make the politicians feel it was even more production ready - and less likely to give money for it. :think:

This seems like it will be a good test for it, and at $1/year, it costs less to have Wagoner do it than one of the engineers. :)

:lol: that is true. It also shows congress that they have the technology all they need is the money to start building them.

:lol: that is true. It also shows congress that they have the technology all they need is the money to start building them.

Great now all they need is to brainwash people into thinking we need to be driving electric ****boxes....Wait scratch that, it's already been done!!

I wonder the likelyhood of them saying "you drove one here, so clearly its on the road so clearly its in production. Why arent you selling them already?"

Read the story again. It is a Volt propulsion mule within a Cruze skin.

GM can easily say, "We're close, but not quite production ready. The body/chassis isn't finalized, the plant where we will build the Volt's generator motor isn't ready, and we are also still fine tuning the performance of the E-flex drivetrain."

The private jets are already paid for, even if they don't fly they still pay for upkeep on them and the pilots still get paid.
But everybody bitched last time.
So to make everyone happy.
Instead of taking all the people that will accompany wagnor on the plane which per person is not that much in the scheme of things, here's the new plan.

We'll waste 15 hours of the CEO's time driving 500 miles at the same time complaining he's not doing enough to run the company.
Meanwhile we still have to get all the rest of the people her, so they're still going to take a plane or maybe we'll just have them all drive 20 cars. I mean the lawyers don't care, they charge $400/hr no matter what so I am sure this is a good use of their time and our money.
Next we'll either fly in our volt prototype, or maybe we'll throw it on a semi that gets 6mpg since flying is so taboo.
Now were going to drive the volt in to DC and all you Fing sheep including congress are going to praise us for saving money this time with no Fing idea that the actual amount of time and money doing it this way was much higher then flying everyone in on the damn plane that only took an hour.

This is why congress and society is such a Fing joke. No one is smart enough to look at the real problem instead we focus our decision on a, meaningless in the scheme of things, corporate plane ride.

If people should be fired for taking planes at others expense while running stuff in to the ground, then all the people in congress that fly to their home state on tax payer money every week would be gone.