“How did you like it?” Bob Lutz asks me. It, in this case, is Chevrolet’s Volt, the electric –drive vehicle that the company is introducing this year. And this is a loaded question, since Lutz is GM’s soon-to-retire vice chairman, a Detroit design deity who put style back into GM’s line, and the ultimate car nut. Volt is the product GM’s on-again, off-again affair with electrics, but the company will put Volt into production later this year and, needless to say, GM has a lot riding on every new vehicle it introduces. So do you, since as a taxpayer you are a part owner of GM. Chevy hasn’t announced pricing on the Volt, but Nissan just said that its new all-electric Leaf will be priced at $32,780, before the $7,500 federal tax credit. Chevy brought Volt to town for the New York International Auto Show, so I got my first test drive today.
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