I Can Buy A Corvette for That!!!!!!

But, he didn’t answer. (We did get a little bit of a dissenting opinion from a p.r. guy at GM, but that’s not the same. P.R. guys are paid to get good press. Increasingly, the Volt is not good press. One can understand the frustration. But, the worst that happens is that they don’t loan me a G8 to test drive, which will be a tragedy. I’ll only write what they want written if I get a long-term test drive on a G8 ute with an LS engine. Everyone has a price, after all.)

But, I don’t just write for TopSpeed.com. I read it, too. There’s some good stuff on this site and I offer up the post earlier today pegging the price for the Volt at $48,000 as proof of my point.

Lutz says GM can’t sell this thing for $40,000 unless they’re willing to take a loss on every car.

Gosh, Bob. Two weeks ago, the price was $40,000 and GM expected to take a loss on every car. And the board was “OK with that.”

What’s the story?

When this thing was originally conceived, it was a $30,000 car.

Now it’s a fifty thousand dollar car.

If you want to lose money, do it right. Sell it for 30K. Back it with a 100,000 mile warranty and make damn sure every Chevy dealer has a lot full of them when the door opens, just like Ford did with the Mustang.

You want market share? Want to pay for it? Then do it.

Or is selling cars no longer your gig?

Was the Volt a bluff that got called?