Me neither. I wouldn't drive a General Motors vehicle if they gave them away for free. The engineering that went into the Volt is truly mediocre. Then seeing the Obama regime pushing the product turned me off even further. The company and the car are too closely associated with Barrack Obama for me to ever utilize either. The grotesque implementation of the Volt drivetrain just confirms every doubt about GM and liberalized union labor. They might at well have named it the Obamamobile.
The same reason houses catch fire, I would imagine. User initiated accidents. The last car I remember that caught fire or exploded because of design was the Pinto. But I'm not an expert in the field like you "are".
So 250,000 gas cars catch fire every year and that's OK because you say it's user generated. Meanwhile three Volt's catch fire weeks after they are crash tested and it's because of faulty design?
I'm not comparing the two. He asked me why cars NOW catch on fire. I said it was NOT due to design and more due to accidents (structural damage, etc)...like the way houses catch on fire not being a design issue. Why do I have to repeat everything? Don't you guys read my comments before going after them?
Yes, the articles I posted EXPLAIN that it was because of faulty design. I'm not making this shit up. I'm not a mechanic. Once again, what we have here is failure to communicate. I will post the relevant commentary to this discussion. It's going to be hard to do, because the text all seems to blend together, but I'll try to help a little bit. When you are finally able to piece it together, feel free to have an "aha" moment. Ready? Here we go... I then go on to emphasize the bailouts being the primary reason, not the fires. The fires were more laughing about this thread in the beginning.