General Motors has released another conceptual take on the ENV, calling it the ENV 2.0. The first time we saw the EN-V was in 2010 when GM partnered with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SAIC) and Segway (ya, the scooter people) to release this idea. At that time, I compared these to Roomba vacuums. They had [...]
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GM Roomba WTF Redux
April 25th, 2012 
Aaron Turpen 
Posted in Electrics, Featured 
Tags: chevrolet, China, general motors, Government of the People's Republic of China, Jiao, Roomba, SAIC, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation 
Comments OffChevrolet Volt named 2012 European Car of the Year
March 6th, 2012 Meme The Chevrolet Volt is has received attention from award groups around the world since being introduced late in 2011 with the latest major award coming today as it was announced on the eve of the Geneva Motor Show that the Chevrolet Volt and the Opel Ampera were jointly named the European Car(s) of the Year [...]
GM Puts Chevy Plate On WTF Pod Car
October 15th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Government Motors has shown off its version of what future “commuting” will look like in their pea pod concept. Not content with that, the company decided that in order to ramp up the marketing, they needed to re-badge the EN-V Pod Car concept with a Chevrolet bowtie and send out another press release in hopes [...]
Posted in Car Company, Featured Tags: chevrolet, electric car, general motors, government motors, WTF 1 Comment »How “Success” Gets Defined When You’re Government Motors
July 27th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Apparently, all of those people in Washington D.C. who’ve never had a real job in their lives but have always managed to make a lot of money off of everyone else have a different definition of what “success” means than do the rest of us out here in the real world. If you’re under the [...]
Posted in Bureaucrats Gone Wild, Car Company Tags: Bankruptcy, chevrolet, Chevrolet Cruze, Cruze, general motors, United Auto Workers, United States Comments OffVolt Tax Credit Scam?
June 7th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Some Republican at the National Legal and Policy Center wrote a blog about how Chevy dealers are ripping off the taxpayer by buying and selling Volts to one another to gain the tax credit. They then lie to their customers that the credit is available and pocket the money themselves. Sound like something these price [...]
AutoNation to Dealers: Sell the Volt at MSRP Or Else…
August 16th, 2010 Aaron Turpen The largest new car dealership chain in the U.S., AutoNation, has informed its dealerships that they are to sell the Chevy Volt at manufacturer’s retail ($41,000) or face immediate termination. AutoNation has 27 dealerships selling Chevrolets nationally. This comes after reports that a lot of dealerships appear to be planning to make up for huge [...]
Posted in Car Company, Hybrids Tags: AutoNation, Car dealership, chevrolet, ChevroletVolt, general motors Comments Off
