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 [...]
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GM Puts Chevy Plate On WTF Pod Car
October 15th, 2011 
Aaron Turpen 
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 [...]
Government Motors Becomes Less So, Thanks to Bush
November 18th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Well, Government Motors (GM) has gone public, opening their sorry company up for public purchase through an initial public offering (IPO). This means that private investors can now buy into the government-owned company (owned by the U.S. government to the tune of 60%). This was a big deal in the automotive media and was supposedly [...]
GM Panders to the Midwest and Big Agra – Loves Ethanol
August 19th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Image via Wikipedia General Motors, for all its hype about the Volt (which won’t run on ethanol), has announced that E85 (ethanol, up to 85%) is the “best near-term” alternative fuel solution. This comes from their FastLane blog on which it’s touted that GM will be moving forward with an “ambitious” expansion of its flex-fuel [...]
Posted in Alt-Fuel Tags: Corporate Average Fuel Economy, E85, Ethanol, Flexible-fuel vehicle, Gasoline, general motors 2 Comments »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
