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11-29-2011, 12:59 PM
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11-29-2011, 01:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Ypsilanti, MI 48197 | | | Interestingly enough, about 350,000 non-electric vehicles catch fire every year.
About 100,000 of those are fuel ignition post crash.
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11-29-2011, 01:44 PM
|  | Expendable | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Shreveport, Louisiana | | | I saw on some t.v. show about early steam-powered cars that when internal combustion engines became the new thing on the market, the steam engine producers called them "explosion engines" to scare people away from internal combustion.
Of course, steam engines are actually susceptible to exploding whereas gasoline engines will more likely just blow a head gasket (or something else that doesn't kill the driver) when they overheat...
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11-29-2011, 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by DerHoggz  | Wow! that almost make me want to go out and buy a Volt. 
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11-29-2011, 04:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | Looks pretty ho-hum to me.
I never stop marveling at the people who think every car should work flawlessly and who panic whenever there's a fault. Granted, if my car burned to a cinder I'd be looking for some answers, but I'd take the insurance money and move on.
Here's a key sentence in the Corvette story: But Martin says that they're not concerned about a rush of owners running to grab a Corvette ZR1 or a Camaro SS for a multi-month green reprieve. Mostly because the type of person who buys a Volt presumably isn't interested in high horsepower for the type of drives they're taking in a Volt.
Right on target. The Corvette is the ANTI-Volt.
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11-29-2011, 04:46 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | The big cheese at GM wants gas prices raised so that more people will buy The Volt. Makes me want to set fire to one. |
11-29-2011, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Stinsok The big cheese at GM wants gas prices raised so that more people will buy The Volt. Makes me want to set fire to one. | 
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11-29-2011, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Stinsok The big cheese at GM wants gas prices raised so that more people will buy The Volt. Makes me want to set fire to one. | Or not, since gas has gone down about $0.20 a gallon in the last two weeks around here.
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11-29-2011, 05:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Western Pennsylvania | | | Apparently the fires only occur a few weeks after an accident. That seems like an appropriate amount of time to get out of/away from the car, no? |
11-29-2011, 06:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NY/MI | | | Lithium ion batteries catch fire when they're left damaged and charged. Surprise.
This thing has been blown way out of proportion by everyone who hates GM and the Volt, and will try to make them fail any way they think possible. Just watch Fox News sometime.
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11-29-2011, 06:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Augusta, GA & Saint Louis, MO | | | So they smashed a prototype volt into a steel pole and leave the mangled corpse of a car in the rain for 3 weeks before it catches fire from a malfunction that wouldn't even be an issue if it were a production vehicle.
I fail to see the problem.
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11-29-2011, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by MatticusMania Or not, since gas has gone down about $0.20 a gallon in the last two weeks around here. | Here too...It's $3.39 a gallon and I was freaking out because I was expecting it to go up for Thanksgiving.
Anyways the Volt is a new concept overall isn't it? Priuses weren't perfect when they were 1st made and neither were fuel injected vehicles. I remember Volvo's "K-Jet" mechanical fuel injection which was a combination of a carburetor and fuel injection. It had problems galore just like this Volt has.
Now granted I loathe Chevy, but at least they're attempting to make a green vehicle. These new damned cars should at LEAST get 40MPG. Ffs, my 76 Valiant gets 30MPG.
It's a new car, if something happens to it, you're covered. Chevy will issue you a new car...What's the problem?
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11-29-2011, 08:44 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Oak Park, MI | | The real danger is if some senior citizen gets rear ended by an out of control Audi and their Prius unintendedly accelerates and T-bones a Volt. That's curtains.
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11-29-2011, 08:48 PM
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11-29-2011, 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by dmonroe
Wow! that almost make me want to go out and buy a Volt. | My thought exactly!
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11-29-2011, 11:32 PM
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Originally Posted by MatticusMania Or not, since gas has gone down about $0.20 a gallon in the last two weeks around here. | Let us know when it's down $2.00 a gallon.
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11-30-2011, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by burk48237 The real danger is if some senior citizen gets rear ended by an out of control Audi and their Prius unintendedly accelerates and T-bones a Volt. That's curtains. | Pure Awesome.
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11-30-2011, 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga Let us know when it's down $2.00 a gallon. | Probably not until gasoline is no longer in demand...
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