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Honda Fit rulez! I love it. Keep trying GM. Some day you might make a great car.

GM needs to put this powertrain in the Buick Avista.

The Bolt is not as attractive as the Fit. The Fit is anonymous, the Bolt looks like the loudest shoes at Payless.

If one thing GM still hasn’t quite figured out, practicality doesn’t sell cars to image-conscious Americans. If it did, explain why no family owns a hatchback, a minivan & a station wagon.

The problem is that an electric car is like having an in-ground pool in the back yard or a summer house. They’re trappings of a luxury lifestyle. They’re not essential in any way.

Why did I reserve a Tesla Model 3 instead of getting a Bolt?

I have absolutely no idea how it’s escaped Toyota/Chevy/Honda/Etc. If you want to sell an electric/hybrid car, MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A NORMAL CAR!!!!!!

Here have a gold star to go with your smug satisfaction at pointing out an autocorrect error on the Internet.

These will sell just fine. They will only be $30k on paper. Leases will be popular and after 3 years they will be great deals on the used market. Just like my $17k Volt I bought last year.

So what color model 3 do you hope Elon will allow you to buy in 2023?

It really is baffling, how much trouble they’re having designing a good-looking electric car. It’s not even like they have to dig that deep:

Sexy, cool, and weird are all fine. But what ev early adopters really want is virtue signaling. They absolutely need everyone to know how green they are the second they see the car.

Defending the CRUZE, must be an owner. Also, auto correct is a bitch. My point stands, the CRUZE is not a good looking car, but it is better looking than the Bolt. Which will fail miserably not because it is electric, but because it is ugly.

I’d gladly sacrifice some drag for a damn electric car that doesn’t look like a damn electric car. For fuck’s sake why are do they have to be so damn ugly?! That’s why the Tesla is the benchmark...because they aren’t ugly! That’s it! That’s the secret sauce. Why is this hard for other makers to understand?

It’s because Chevy doesn’t know how to take the advantages of all the things that electric cars can do. No longer needing an engine up front means higher safety, instant torque response, silent operation/low NVH.

1. cost

GM is making the same mistake as Nissan with the Leaf, and Ford with the Focus Electric - assuming the goal of electric car early adopters is low cost of ownership and low cost of purchase - hence the econo car cheap look and feel of these cars. When in reality I am sure that the typical electric car buyer is above…

The reason Tesla can make an EV and sell tons of them is because they don’t look like econo-shitboxes. Just take the Chevy Cruise (not a good looking car by any means, but light years ahead of the bolt) make it EV, profit. It’s really not that hard Chevy, jesus.

If Chevy wants me to buy an electric car from them, they need to make it not look like a Chevy.