Nice fantasy, but how would GM have fitted that battery pack in a Malibu V? If they shrank the battery pack, then it wouldn't have the same all-electric range nor the power delivery. Plopping a smaller battery pack in the back would severely cut into trunk space, like the Ford Focus Electric. The Volt's battery along…

But it's exactly cars like the Volt that will turn GM's image around, far more than xTS-V 666 horsepower whatevers or yet another Malibu that's almost-no-really-just-as-good as the competition. "GM also reports that eighty-percent of Volt sales are also conquest sales, with the Toyota Prius being the most-traded in…

failed to sell whatsoever

I think selling 7,671 of the first production plug-in hybrid ever in the first year instead of 10,000 GM bravely (and foolishly) projected is far from epic failure. Not surprisingly, most cars sell less than their manufacturer hopes. For comparison, the Prius sold 5,600 in the USA its first year.

If people's experience of the rock and the trench in person is no better than the depiction on LACMA's web site, then this piece is not going to be a success.

The rock is going to sit in a "456-foot-long slot constructed on LACMA's campus", I think they're pretty committed to it!

You are an artist! I'm serious, contact an art gallery in Boulder and see if you can get the wheels turning.

That's your opinion, mine is Abstract Expressionism was one of the greatest things to happen in art. It's been 60 years since Pollock, de Kooning, Franz Kline and the fantastic Rothko did their thing. For what it's worth the best works are still rising in value because "idiots" really want to own them, and the mammoth…

You haven't even seen it and you're spouting your opinion as fact? Spare us.

Try "following links" before posting rhetorical questions. The boulder, plus the 456-foot-long slot it resides in, plus the surroundings, are the art piece. You might want to withhold judgment until you see it. Like Stonehenge, I doubt pictures will do it justice.

Stonehenge is just a collection of rocks. This is simpler and more conceptual, but in conjunction with the 456-foot-long slot it rests in, it could be excellent.

Again, privately funded. Read the FAQ.

Not well-played. This is privately funded.

But it won't get 58mpg on the EPA cycle. That 58 mpg from the TwinAir Dualogic is 4.0 L/100km on the European cycle, but on the same test the Prius gets 3.90 L/100 km. America's 50 mpg Prius is a 60 mpg car in Europe, where some small micro-hybrid diesels are getting 70 mpg

It's a beautiful and different luxury car, like many other models that the rich buy. It's also has the technological advancement than you can drive around all-electric for 32 miles without burning any gasoline.

Fisker was founded 2007, showed the Karma in 2008, and started deliveries in 2011 after numerous delays. That seems a little tight for a brand new car from a brand new company using new technology. But the drivetrain comes from Quantum, who say "Q-DriveTM has evolved over six years of innovation and development."

Everyone, stop with the redefinition of "vaporware" to "car models I don't like that have future plans"!

You're misguided, and fail at humor.

Electric motors are reliable and require no maintenance, so in theory the more time you're in all-electric mode, the less maintenance required. Hybrid + AWD is definitely more stuff to go wrong, but the Prius is the most reliable midsize car and even the Lexus AWD hybrids with multiple e-CVTs and motor-generators have…

Honda used to promote the Phill home CNG refueling station for the Civic GX. Not any more, they went bankrupt in 2009. They may be back in business.