The Chevy Volt scares me. First off, the concept vehicle looks nothing like what they are putting on the road….so then what’s the purpose of a concept vehicle that will never see the light of day? Second, haven’t American car companies learned their lesson from the Pontiac Aztec and its disjointed styling? The Volt looks to lack a design consistency OR an original electric vehicle brand image. Usually odd cars are defined by a design feature, the Honda Element looks like and Elephant (everyone likes elephants), VW Beetle looks like its smiling, and the Toyota Prius looks like it came from 2012, and the Mini looks like it should have 30 clowns streaming from it. On the other hand, the Chevy Volt looks like a hodge podge or design features with an organic Pontiac Aztec rear…great! And the worst of it, its touted as an amazing electric vehicle when truly…it isn’t that amazing. It has decent gas mileage (give or take 37mpg) to make up for its measly 50 mile electric range. I am still more impressed with what the weekend warriors are doing with old Porche 914’s.

The Chevy Volt scares me.

First off, the concept vehicle looks nothing like what they are putting on the road….so then what’s the purpose of a concept vehicle that will never see the light of day? Second, haven’t American car companies learned their lesson from the Pontiac Aztec and its disjointed styling? The Volt looks to lack a design consistency OR an original electric vehicle brand image. Usually odd cars are defined by a design feature, the Honda Element looks like and Elephant (everyone likes elephants), VW Beetle looks like its smiling, and the Toyota Prius looks like it came from 2012, and the Mini looks like it should have 30 clowns streaming from it. On the other hand, the Chevy Volt looks like a hodge podge or design features with an organic Pontiac Aztec rear…great!

And the worst of it, its touted as an amazing electric vehicle when truly…it isn’t that amazing. It has decent gas mileage (give or take 37mpg) to make up for its measly 50 mile electric range. I am still more impressed with what the weekend warriors are doing with old Porche 914’s.