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Anonymous (not verified)    February 21, 2012 - 9:33PM

Volts are nice looking and can get up when you punch it in sport mode but they are just not in the price range for the average family. They fit into the "drive one if you can afford one" category. As for the supposed fire risk? Sure they can be started on fire if you tip them upside down and break the cooling lines to the battery then wait for long enough for the battery to get overheated. Why does anyone expect any vehicle to be safe from every possible thing? Every gasoline powered car carries with it a molotov coctail kit but we don't cry when one of them bursts into flame micro seconds after a crash so why the mass outcry about the potential for a fire three weeks after the fact if the exact conditions are met?

Th Volt is fine but with this media hack job it may never get the chance to show how good it is.

Why attack the newest technology for being new to us? Of course it has different characteristics from the long established designs that is what being new does.

Why tear down the volt but let the and run away acceleration of the Toyotas go? Why tell us how bad such a non-event is while ignoring the crash statistics of those leaf vehicles? Why must Americans throw fruit at our own designs but celebrate our foreign competition? At this rate we will find our only choices to be Chinese "Great Wall" trucks or Japanese Toyota cars.

I wish I was wrong but I see no reason to be optimistic. It is our nature to tear ourselves down.

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