Chevrolet’s plug-in hybrid sedan is in its first year of full production, and after six months of sales, the Volt has toppled the Chevy Corvette in the retail race.

So far in 2012, Chevy has offloaded 7,057 Volts, compared to the the Corvette’s 5,547 sales. It deserves noting that the figures General Motors — Chevrolet’s parent company — has released are for deliveries to dealers, and not vehicles parked in customer garages.

Still, the duality of the two vehicles sold under the same marque couldn’t be more clear. Both the Corvette and Volt could be considered niche products — one a sports car, one a plug-in hybrid with a 40-mile range and absolutely no sporting pretenses.

There’s also the price discrepancy — not that anyone is cross-shopping the two models. The Volt comes in at $39,995 before any state or federal incentives, while the Corvette starts at just over 50 large. And of course, the fuel economy of both models stands in stark contrast: The Volt gets a combined rating of 94 MPGe, while the ‘Vette and its 6.2-liter V8 manages to eek out 16 MPG in the city and 26 MPG on the highway.

In 2011, Chevy managed to move some 13,596 Corvettes, and if Volt sales continue as expected, Chevrolet expects around 20,000 Volts sold by the end of this year.

But you look like a fag in Volt.

Ralph Pootawn Wrote:
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> But you look like a fag in Volt.

You got that right...:)

http://www.thecarconnection.com/image/100392430_chevrolet-ad-in-the-2012-motor-city-pride-program

There's a red Chevy Volt in Fairfax that has some smoking hot blonde driving it. I'd tap that in a second!

This is what an electric car should look like...



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Isn't that to be expected? What is that suppose to be some sort of accomplishment? The Volt is an everyman compact economy car and the Vette is (more expensive) high performance sports car.

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> Isn't that to be expected? What is that suppose to
> be some sort of accomplishment? The Volt is an
> everyman compact economy car and the Vette is
> (more expensive) high performance sports car.


In defense of the Volt, it's not like we have the infrastructure readily in place to support electric cars. Yes, people can charge them at home, but few workplaces have charging stations. I think as the infrastructure grows, you will see more of these cars on the road.

That said, I doubt there is any real environmental benefit to these cars when you factor in the CO2 from coal burning power plants, radioactive waste from nuclear power plants and the damage decaying fuel cells could potentially pose to our water tables.

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Not that surprising since a lot of those are fleet sales to government and corporate buyers which you don't have for the Vette and that's a comparison against a limited-production car at +2X the price to start with. Although the Volt's private sales have improved in recent months.

Click Wrote:
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> Not that surprising since a lot of those are fleet
> sales to government and corporate buyers which you
> don't have for the Vette and that's a comparison
> against a limited-production car at +2X the price
> to start with. Although the Volt's private sales
> have improved in recent months.


If they sold 20 of them that would be an improvement of their past private sales. Its pretty pathetic that the one way to make this car look successful is to compare it against a high end sports car that has never done volume sales as opposed to other cars it is similar too and in direct competition with in its class.

Next Voltaire will tell us how its outselling Lambos, Mazzeratis, and privately owned 747 jumbo jets

Voltaire Wrote:
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> In 2011, Chevy managed to move some 13,596
> Corvettes, and if Volt sales continue as expected,
> Chevrolet expects around 20,000 Volts sold by the
> end of this year.

In a country of over 300 million people that is downright amazing