Drew Dowdell

Bringing this up is like comparing fuel economy to cup holders. Gasoline packs the highest reasonably safe power density.Electricity/Batteries do not. The Volt marketing does not tout the ability for the Volt to forsake the electrical cord and run on butterfly farts because, at present, you cannot buy a Volt ready to run on butterfly farts or the parts to convert the Volt to use butterfly farts. And it will take a decade for GM to engineer these changes and get the EPA and PETA to play along. In the meantime, somebody discovers a way to make economic synthetic gasoline and all GM's Volt technology becomes an overgrown E-Assist (for butterfly farts). Sythetic gas is like cold fusion, not a true thing yet and we have a far superior logical step. NATURAL GAS, or CNG. The Volt is a perfect way to move to auto's that have a kinder foot print on the planet and what really needs to happen is for GM to do the Volt in Car, CUV, MiniVan and Small Truck platform but use a CNG Generator. This way you have a very high density of power since CNG is 130 Octane right from the ground and is very clean only 1/3 the polution of Gas. The US has the worlds largest reserves and we can get long distance auto's with very clean emissions. Such high octane also allows for smaller yet more power dense engines because they can be run at much higher compression. The GM 4-cylinders in Brazil all run 12:1 compression ratio (same as the M5 V-10) because they run alcohol in their engines down there.

Bringing this up is like comparing fuel economy to cup holders. Gasoline packs the highest reasonably safe power density.Electricity/Batteries do not. The Volt marketing does not tout the ability for the Volt to forsake the electrical cord and run on butterfly farts because, at present, you cannot buy a Volt ready to run on butterfly farts or the parts to convert the Volt to use butterfly farts. And it will take a decade for GM to engineer these changes and get the EPA and PETA to play along. In the meantime, somebody discovers a way to make economic synthetic gasoline and all GM's Volt technology becomes an overgrown E-Assist (for butterfly farts). I'm saying that the Volt is the best vehicle for the future market because it makes the type of fuel nearly irrelevant to the driver. Swap the fuel out for whatever the market demands and the Volt will run and drive exactly the same way as it does today. Need an example of how this is important to the general consumer? Look at how much diesels have struggled to take hold in this country. Sure you have a core of hardcore diesel fanbois, but outside of that, diesels are a hard sell to everyone else not buying a truck. People don't like how they sound, how they accelerate, that they "don't rev to 11,000rpm", that they sometimes blow black smoke.... On the Volt, none of that matters. Swap out the combustion process in the Volt to anything your wee heart can imagine and nothing about the driving changes. Even if someone makes a synthetic gasoline (of which we already have a bio version) doesn't at all make the Volt obsolete because whatever that product may be will still be a commodity sold, traded, and competed for.

Some of the AWD systems are worthless too. I couldn't get the CR-V to go uphill in wet grass.

A bit late to this party eh Serg?

Avalanche represent.

Mostly likely possibility

Strong cell passing over us now

I fix

I like the look of the car, but I am not the target market for that motor setup

the levy has been breached!

Only an eight-year run for EPII? Seems sudden. But if this is a lightening program, then full speed ahead. It is one of the heaviest platforms in the class, it needs to be replaced.

The neat thing about the Volt is that it is version 1.0. It doesn't care how you spin the generator. Want to use butterfly farts as fuel for a diesel wankle engine? The Volt doesn't care. Run turbines, run sterling engines, run wankles, run diesel... it doesn't matter. The Volt will drive exactly the same no matter what. No concerns on "throttle responsiveness" no concerns on acceleration.... the gasoline engine becomes a non-issue.

Palm Treo, Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile (again), HTC Hero, Samsung Galaxy II Simultaniously Blackberries of every generation going back to 2003. I've had to carry two cell phones since then.

GoDaddy is a different kind of host. C&G is too big and bulky to run on that style of server. That said, we're going to have to move. We've had 4 major outages in 45 days, none of which were our fault.

My Toronado can make it through fairly deep snow just fine thanks.

Go from a Buick Verano Turbo to an Acura ILX Turbo and you'll reach for your ear plugs. Excessive road and engine noise is something that really jumps out at me when present in a car. The new Altima is another recent offender in this regard.

Oh that steering wheel...

I'm very happy with my Samsung Galaxy SII, and I look forward to having the Galaxy S3.... but not with Sprint. It is an awesome phone hampered by a sub-par network. As for tweeting, you'll want Tweetdeck anyway if you are going to be doing anything like power tweeting. If you are just going to post "My cat is cute, tee hee" on twitter, then yes, the iPhone app is fine. The camera in the Galaxy is quite good for a phone. Mine is 8mp and does camera duty for many of the pics you see in my reviews.

Wind, yes, we'll escape that. Flooding, no. We have a lot of problems with flooding, and it rained for 3 days straight before Sandy got here.

I drove home from Allentown PA yesterday (in the ZL1) and there were just rows and rows of bucket trucks, trailers with generators, RVs and Campers all headed east on I-78. Here in Pittsburgh, if it weren't for the TV blaring about the Frankenstorm, it'd be just a typical rainy fall day here.

Vps.net we stick with them due to the huge flexibility they offer.

i'm not too worried about the power. while it would be nice to have a bigger power option (Hello 1.6T with 200 ft/lbs @1500rpm!) the truth is the 1.4T is plenty for 95% of buyers of this car.

My grandmother could run a more reliable web hosting company than this.... arg

What technology?

Looks like the seats are way nicer on the production model.