Slow, awkward, uncomfortable, barely road capable? I'm in! Where can I test drive this car? Are the crash test results equally underwhelming? I don't want anything too sporty or too safe. :-)

According to your comment above, no one is buying the Volt and they are a sales failure. If so, then there aren't any tax payer subsidies being handed out and your concern about a tax credit is unwarranted. Were you complaining about this tax credit when Bush signed the GOP law into affect? Or is it just your attempt to play politics with a car?

$3 billion a year in handouts (not tax credits) to the oil company's is OK but a tax credit to a real person gets you upset? How about we eliminate the $10/gal subsidy *you* get on gasoline (source Jon Huntsman, GOP Pres candidate) and I'll give up the $7500 tax credit on my purchase.

If you are considering a compact luxury car, take a Volt for a test drive. You'll be pleasantly surprised at, well, everything. Fit and finish, handling, acceleration, the dash, the leather seats, the sound system. On the other hand, if you are looking for an econo-box, this is not it. The cheapest car is one that is used and 10 years old. If you want a cheap car, get one of those. I buy new and keep them for 10 -15 years.

Having test drove many, there is no other car in the $35k price range that drives as nice as a Volt AND delivers the 256 MPG I am getting. Sure, the $7500 tax credit—originally started under President Bush–did help me take a chance on a new car with new technology. But I have had zero problems with the car. It's the best car I have had. Also, Colorado has an extra tax credit of up to $6k available to buyers of alternative fuel source vehicles.

Buying a Volt in Colorado makes a lot of sense.

Selling all they make = "not a success"? Hahaha.

The cost of the batteries has already dropped by 30%, and battery tech is improving at a rate of 7%/year. Please tell us what the cost will be to replace the batteries in 16 years.

Leases are $350. And my fully loaded Volt cost me $34k after the tax credit (available to other cars as well). My insurance went up by $100/year. And that was after I increased coverage and added a "new car" replacement rider.

I paid "a lot more"? How do you come by that fact? I was going to buy a $35k BMW, I bought a Chevy Volt instead and paid LESS. The batteries are warranted for 100,000 miles. Not the same as needing to replace them at 100k miles. GM's accelerated age testing went for 16 years and the batteries were still going strong.

My brother bought a Ford Edge Limited and paid $36k. He gets worse gas mileage and does not have the option of driving without gas. The average car today with the options people add is $30k. $34k for my Volt is not so bad. Especially when it drives as well as a BMW or Mercedes.

I got one of those Kill-A-Watt meters from my local Ace and plugged it in for a week so I'd get a decent average daily cost of charging my Volt. The meter results show it costs me $1.35/day to fully charge my Volt. That $1.35/day replaces $7-$8/day of gasoline. Yes my monthly electric went up by $40, but my gasoline expense went down by $225.

Like almost all Volt owners, my car charges at night while I am sleeping. This is "off-peak" charging when the power plants have excess electricity that is otherwise wasted (shunted to "ground"). So I have added no pollution. Also, power plants, even dirty ones, produce less pollution than millions of little gasoline engines.

A little known fact: it takes a lot of electricity to refine a gallon of gasoline. Almost as much as it takes to recharge my Volt. I've just eliminated the middleman. Plus I am not supporting jihad-juice (oil from the middle east). Not one US soldier died to create the electricity that powers my car.