Chevy Volt a Failure - GM to Layoff 1,300

Their weekly pay check.

There have been times where I wonder if Larry Summers understands economics.

 

The answer, of course, is zero. Not that all or even most Americans have zero understanding of economics. It's just that zero understanding has to be the mode (i.e., the most frequently observed value). Thus, it has to be the case that there are at least two Americans who have exactly the same understanding of economics. QED.

 

Tesla S road test.

www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/automobiles/autoreviews/one-big-step-for-tesla-one-giant-leap-for-evs.html?hp

While driving a Model S with the biggest available battery pack — 85 kilowatt-hours — on a restrained run through Northern California wine country, I was able to wring 300.1 miles from a single charge. The E.P.A.’s rating for equivalent gasoline miles per gallon is 88 m.p.g.e. in town and 90 on the highway, with a 265-mile range.

On a more enthusiastic romp from my home base here to Santa Cruz and back, I sampled what the 362-horsepower electric drivetrain was designed to do: bolt. Tesla says the car can zip from zero to 60 in 5.6 seconds and tops out at 125 miles per hour, but it was the silent, near-instantaneous bursts from 35 to 65 along the Pacific on California Highway 1 that best demonstrated the S’s otherworldly quality.

 

Sounds like a great car but I think I would miss the roar of the engine. Maybe they should add a sound track.

 

Only a download away.

www.soundsnap.com/tags/car_engine

 

You can't beat the purr of a 2002 Mercury Sable or the 1996 Chevy Blazer.

 

Seriously, I'll eventually make the switch but as a child of the '60s I'll always have a soft spot for the sound of a throaty V-8.

 

Caroll Shelby weeps.

 

I may go shopping for a nice-condition V-8 to keep in the garage for weekends and whenever the power grid goes out on the eastern seaboard.

 

Cranberry takes the family on a Sunday motor, ca 2018.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hirZFmRwXvE

 

So that's 2018? Does the Tea Party takeover?