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Why are the Headlights 3 ft off the ground?
It looks pregnant…
That’s interesting. Get the creepy looking suit guy out of the frame. Notice on the Autoblog site, the car is listed as the 2011 Chevy Volt. There’re also some good pictures of Max Bob with the Volt as well.
They don’t let you see it completely in any of the pictures. It’s damned ugly, and the monkeys in suits don’t help that. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
Dear god, please please please give us more pictures of the car and less of adult men.
Ok, not TTACs fault, but bleh – I want eye candy – women and cars. Not men and cars.
That said, it sort of reminds me of a Civic from the picture above…and from the links it looks to be an attractive car.
The Car Domain published these GM PR photos.
I’ll go against the flow, I like the styling. I think it’s worlds better looking than the Prius and upcoming Insight. A greenie car that doesn’t look like it’s for weenies.
I think it’s a Volt not a Vot. Or am I missing the joke.
I agree with TriShield, I like it.
It’s not bad looking. But it doesn’t look like a Chevrolet. I agree with Orian, it looks like a Civic.
I wish the photo came without the guy, so I could see wht the hell the side looks like. And jeez, if they have to put a guy there, how about Barack Obama, who’s skinny enough that we’d probably be able to see the side, and who looks a hell of a lot better than this guy.
“How long do I have to hold this smile, guys? I think my jacket’s caught in the door hinge. Man, I could sure use some cheese fries right about now.”
Doesn’t GM know that photos of cars need to accompanied by beautiful women? Not ugly middle aged White Men in suits.
Does it make sense to introduce the car way before it is ready for the market. So far it is just vaporware but they continue to show what it looks like. By the time it actually gets on the market the current look of the car will look dated when compared to the designs that will be available then. The looks of the car are aging everytime they show it. They are showing a 2008 design for 2011. How many cars looked really hot when the first came out but within a couple years they were just same old same old. Designs grow stale and from the looks of the Volt it isn’t very innovative. It looks rather Camry or Civic derivative. And lose the suit. At least have some babe. A red bikini would contrast nicely with the sea foam green car.
Can’t they at least Photoshop in Hayden Panettiere in from the last article instead of the guys in suits? Then I won’t be quite as irritated at having my view blocked.
Looks pretty decent, but it’s really hard to tell without better shots, including good suit-free 3/4 shots and some detail photos.
Vot are you talking about?
Text amended. Damn school run.
C’mon now!
It looks no worse than any other Jap offering..
Maybe that’s it. It’ NOT foreign?
Like French wine is ALWAYS better than domestic?
Snobbery at it’s finest…
I think it looks great. It may look like a Civic from a far looking straight at it, but at least it doesn’t look like a Prius or the new Insight, which in my mind are copies of each other.
Some thoughts:
— The nose sure is high and long. They disguise it well but with classy lighting, but still…
— Throw out all your luggage and invest in some FedEx envelopes, because that’s all that will fit through the narrow trunk opening
— Too bad the clear side panels from the show car couldn’t make it into production — those were nice, much nicer than the black blotches at the beltline.
–Otherwise, it looks pretty good. It won’t get the mileage of the Honda Insight, comes out a year later, and is twice as expensive, but at least it has a bowtie on the front, so that makes up for it. A little.
Damn, Volt-blocked, by some middle-aged dude with an extra wide suit and moustache.
Looks like a chunky Civic up front. In a pastel green though?
Can GM please stop the hype machine now, and just freaking build it? Get the batteries decided, sort out mileage issues (ie. have great mileage and range) and all the other issues by performing concentious work quietly and diligently and then introduce it, once it’s ready. Then maybe I’ll take a look.
At this rate of hype it’ll be a limp out-of-style hasbeen by the time it is released in 3 years time.
Now for the next stage of the game — plug-in hybrids will, for a while, get away without paying fuel taxes, so they will be a drain on the road system as well as the power grid. Coming up: a need for opportunistic electric-car users to pony up their fair share of the infrastructure expenses.
Good lord, it’s the new Honda Insight!
Please ladies and gentleman: in this case, styling is for once totally unimportant… The real question is, does this thing really exist and do what it is supposed to – or is this a PR trick to get to our tax dollars ???
From the looks of that kung-fu grip on the A pillar, I’d say the suit guy is there to make sure the cardboard cutout doesn’t fall over.
Not bad looking… to bad they stuck that guy in there. Wonder what they are hiding behind him?
The hood seems rather tall… that will make it difficult for short people to see over the dash.
Overall I kinda like it. I do have a couple of problems with it though:
1. Is it me or is the front extra chunky?
2. I can understand that the interesting styling they had for the windows in the “shoulder” area, but why are they using the blackout tape/paint to that area. Just show it for what it is.
Why do the headlights and front grill look like NASCAR stickers?
Looks more concept model than “production”.
Better looking than the Prius anyway.
It’s not bad looking. At $40k, they may actually sell the first 10,000 units. (wait for it….)
Which will only lose them $100M. Nice work, boneheads!
The concept Volt was mighty sexy, this production Volt looks a little… idunno, plump and cute. I’m not too surprised, really, because there are very few aerodynamically ideal shapes for a car, and everybody’s shooting for the Prius. It isn’t ugly, which is great, and I really like the rear. It’ll be interesting to see it in person… two more years of unsubstantiated hype aren’t going to help this car too much.
Styling is not all that bad. Unfortunately, you still have to Fred Flinstone your way around town.
At least we now know what the “surprise” about the window frames are about.
Aside from being fairly derivative of Acuras, and oddly large with a middle aged guy leaning on it, I don’t think it looks bad at all.
Tyrany of aerodynamics. Get used to the look people: its the only way to get the mileage up beyond a certain limit.
However, Toyota and Honda are right, if you are going to have the long sloping back, at least make it a hatch.
Nice looking car. Too bad that GM will go down before the first ones roll off the production line.
Looks nice…
But all the execs around and the pics of their smiling faces is just plain “wrong”
The window frames gimmickry is just plain fucking stupid. Just like the faux-six light Chrysler Sebring, with its blacked out window at the c-pillar. I was wondering how they would deal with it, but this is… just too stupid for words…
That hood is really tall. Then again, it is probably a clay buck.
It is definitely fake, though. They never showed the interior, and the car doors didn’t open. I’ve seen lots of fake cars like that at the auto show.
What is with using the car as a backdrop for a bunch of suits? Are they targeting at the middle aged gay male market or something?
“Doesn’t GM know that photos of cars need to accompanied by beautiful women? Not ugly middle aged White Men in suits.”
The female models had to be let go to in the turnaround. Being the company man Bob Lutz is, he decided to take one for he team and do some modeling, the other suits followed.
Honey, does this car make me look fat?
You betcha!
In the time it will take you to make up the sleep sofa, you could have bought a Prius.
Pardon the shameless ripoff of a Geico ad.
It may be just my eyesight, but in picture #5 the trim line leading to the door mirror makes the mirror look like a giant wind-up handle. Maybe it’s missing its ICE and they expect you to crank it up to get some juice in the batteries if you want to go further than 40 miles ?
Can’t say too much about the styling, seeing how the car is being eclipsed by the, ahem, model, who eerily resembles my boss minus a few pounds.
It should be interesting to see how much complaining people do when they realize the “it’s Cd is how awful???” concept has turned into a Civic with a bowtie.
The “grille” looks to be almost completely useless as far as admitting air. I’d bet it’s solely for looks, though I will be suitably impressed if it turns out to be a microvortice generator.
That hood is really tall.
If that guy is average height (say 5’10”), the cowl is four feet or more from the ground. The seats in this thing better be barstools if people who aren’t, well, as tall as I am (6’8″) are going to see out.
The guy is trying to hide A-pillar so i can`t decide which korean car it is spun off. betcha,it is german opel based and korean chewed around.
From the C pillar visible through the windows and the other views I’ve seen of this, its apparent that the Volt will be shaped just like the Prius and all other cars of the future, the sad, sad future.
The guy in the suit looks like another successful Motor City citizen; Detroit Lions GM Matt Millen!
I swear GM thinks I am stupid, if you can’t make the side windows work like the concept car, don’t fake it with paint.
Tyrany of aerodynamics. Get used to the look people: its the only way to get the mileage up beyond a certain limit.
Very true. The tear drop shape is about the best anyone has come up with for auto aerodynamics. Get use to seeing a lot of variations of 1960’s Citroen ID and DS’s.
As mentioned earlier the light metal look above and below the bow tie on the front is a phony grill and doesn’t look very good. Otherwise not bad.
Interesting, the “grille” is just for decorative purposes and to carry on the Chevy front end design theme, and the real air intake is under the front like the Corvette.
What nobody has mentioned so far is that they’ve gone with hideaway windshield wipers for better aerodynamics, unlike the Prius and Honda’s new Prius clone.
For some reason, I’m finding myself totally “gay” for the new Volt, in a way I’ve never felt before…
What I need to see is one in a dealer showroom, plugged into 120 “Volt” outlet… with a price tag on it.
Save the suits for an upcoming GQ article: “Woolen Suits and Golden Parachutes; will they ever go out of style?”
bumpy, Usta Bee:
I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that the grille is not meant to allow air to flow into the engine bay and is solid for aerodynamic reasons. They had to engineer some kind of different solution to get air to the ICE and flowing over the engine. Idunno what they did or how, but I think that is the production grille you’re seeing; I think it’s pretty sharp, personally.
Wow, Looks like I missed the news that the Volt has moved from being a roadster ala BirthWatch71 to a four door prius pretender!!!
I thought GM’s idea was that there was more margin in the sports car market to re-‘coupe’ the investment, rather than a bigger heavier mainstream vehicle that’s actually *useful*, but technically more difficult, esp for the lower msrp…