...some resistance, but if you have the capacity you may well want to take one ohm. Also, if you buy two and put them in a double garage, do you then have a dielectric?
Unfortunately, it isn't a battery-powered Cruze, so we'll never see it like that. Instead, we'll get a blandified GM-generic compact with a fancy plastic trim piece on the back and another few thousand on the price.
There seems to be an obsession with manufacturers of Leccymobiles to have them ~styled~ by the remedial class at the art-school-for-retards.
If you're looking to sell significant numbers of these cars, please - ditch the gawky and eye-challenging styling. Rather, think "mid-range executive" design - use something like a 5-series BMW or a Lexus GS as the inspiration.
'If you're looking to sell significant numbers of these cars, please - ditch the gawky and eye-challenging styling. Rather, think "mid-range executive" design - use something like a 5-series BMW or a Lexus GS as the inspiration.'
I actually agree with you on the matter, i drive a odd car myself...
But i have to agree with Tanuki just for the plain simple fact that it would sell !
I cant imagine many executives buying something like that to travel up the M4 corridor to goto meetings, it hardly looks corperate.
If they start manufacturing pure leccy cars that a corperation would be happy to supply as a company car then theyve cornered the maket assuming the product is good
I dunno. With that deliberately obfuscated pic it's pretty much impossible to tell WTF it's going to look like, save that the astronomical camber angle on the rear wheel would seem to indicate that it's not a "real" pic anyway and whoever drew it needs a short lesson in perspective.
As for the concept below, I suppose that if one were in the market for an electrically powered, four seat suppository, it would do.
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GM to convert Volts to Amps in Europe
Anonymous Coward
Naming. #
Posted Tuesday 27th January 2009 18:22 GMT
Couldn't they have saved money on expensive naming focus groups by just re-using the good old O(h)mega nameplate?
Chronos
There may be... #
Posted Tuesday 27th January 2009 18:22 GMT
...some resistance, but if you have the capacity you may well want to take one ohm. Also, if you buy two and put them in a double garage, do you then have a dielectric?
Sorry, couldn't resist ;o)
Psymon
For greatly increased punnage... #
Posted Tuesday 27th January 2009 18:22 GMT
shouldn't that have been "GM to TRANSFORM Volts to Amps in Europe"?
OK, OK. I'm already putting my coat on...
K
Quite sexy... #
Posted Tuesday 27th January 2009 18:22 GMT
But like all prototypes, the manufacturer always fucks them up!
GrahamT
Watt!?? #
Posted Tuesday 27th January 2009 18:22 GMT
Ohm I gauss!
Fluffykins
I can see it now #
Posted Tuesday 27th January 2009 18:22 GMT
Will there be a model aimed at those with a penchant for the outside life and trips to the country?
Will it be called the Picnic (h)Ampera?
censored
Presumably... #
Posted Tuesday 27th January 2009 18:22 GMT
they encountered some resistance, hence the Volts became Amps...
Doug Southworth
Looks better than the Volt #
Posted Tuesday 27th January 2009 18:22 GMT
So of course they won't sell it here...
Frank
You Watt? #
Posted Tuesday 27th January 2009 18:22 GMT
(see title)
Mike Powers
Hey, that looks cool! #
Posted Tuesday 27th January 2009 18:22 GMT
Unfortunately, it isn't a battery-powered Cruze, so we'll never see it like that. Instead, we'll get a blandified GM-generic compact with a fancy plastic trim piece on the back and another few thousand on the price.
Anonymous Coward
The least they could have done #
Posted Tuesday 27th January 2009 21:56 GMT
would have been to spell Ampere correctly.
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Anonymous Coward
do they come... #
Posted Tuesday 27th January 2009 21:56 GMT
..with equally stylish neckirchoff ?
Tanuki
Why the invariable bizarre styling? #
Posted Tuesday 27th January 2009 21:56 GMT
There seems to be an obsession with manufacturers of Leccymobiles to have them ~styled~ by the remedial class at the art-school-for-retards.
If you're looking to sell significant numbers of these cars, please - ditch the gawky and eye-challenging styling. Rather, think "mid-range executive" design - use something like a 5-series BMW or a Lexus GS as the inspiration.
Doug Southworth
Re: Tanuki #
Posted Wednesday 28th January 2009 00:41 GMT
'If you're looking to sell significant numbers of these cars, please - ditch the gawky and eye-challenging styling. Rather, think "mid-range executive" design - use something like a 5-series BMW or a Lexus GS as the inspiration.'
+1, couldn`t agree more.
b166er
Styling #
Posted Wednesday 28th January 2009 01:01 GMT
You mean to tell me the 5-series BM or the Lexus look in any way good?
Mid-range executive sounds fscking boring and bland to me.
Funk it up I say, and while they're at it, can we have a choice of colours other than pin-stripe (mid-range executive) black/grey?
Go on, dare to be different ;p
Dick
@ Psymon #
Posted Wednesday 28th January 2009 05:36 GMT
No, no,
GM = Amps Out / Volts In
Coming not very soon (maybe) to a showroom near you, the Transconductance.
David Halko
Now... #
Posted Wednesday 28th January 2009 05:36 GMT
If only GM would not change this new concept car much.
The latest incarnations of the Volt look terrible, bring back the concept cars!
Lionel Baden
@b166er #
Posted Wednesday 28th January 2009 10:15 GMT
I actually agree with you on the matter, i drive a odd car myself...
But i have to agree with Tanuki just for the plain simple fact that it would sell !
I cant imagine many executives buying something like that to travel up the M4 corridor to goto meetings, it hardly looks corperate.
If they start manufacturing pure leccy cars that a corperation would be happy to supply as a company car then theyve cornered the maket assuming the product is good
TeeCee
About the styling. #
Posted Wednesday 28th January 2009 12:08 GMT
I dunno. With that deliberately obfuscated pic it's pretty much impossible to tell WTF it's going to look like, save that the astronomical camber angle on the rear wheel would seem to indicate that it's not a "real" pic anyway and whoever drew it needs a short lesson in perspective.
As for the concept below, I suppose that if one were in the market for an electrically powered, four seat suppository, it would do.
John Mangan
What I want to know is . . . #
Posted Wednesday 28th January 2009 12:08 GMT
why does every GM car, at least in the UK, have to be named to end in an 'a'?
Nigel
If ... #
Posted Wednesday 28th January 2009 14:04 GMT
If GM lasts long enough to work out what the public really wants, they'll cross a Volt with an Ampera and get a ... Watt?
Getting my coat.