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Chevy Volt Owners: We'd Do It Again

Posted January 04, 2013 8:53 AM

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The Chevy Volt and other electrified vehicles dominated a Consumer Reports survey asking if people would buy their cars again.

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01/05/2013 7:51 AM

My question would be "would Chevy Cavalier owners do it again?"

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01/05/2013 8:16 AM

My questions would be, would they do it again without the tax break the rest of us paid for, and how many of them are of a mindset that would like to force the rest of us to buy them instead of what we want and need. I suspect more than a few.

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01/05/2013 4:47 PM

These types of polls always suffer from bias.

1. Who would admit they made a really poor choice? ("My Dogmotors Crapmobile GT? That POS dream machine [that caught fire and burned down my garage]? Sure, I'd buy one again.")

2. Knowing you're going to be selling your Dogmotors Crapmobile GT someday, who would be dumb enough to give it a poor rating and risk reducing its resale value?

I have friends who bought a Volt. They seemed almost apologetic about it, like they were sorry they'd made that choice.

I'd like to see what J D Powers has to say. Their surveys are much more in depth and they follow new car owners for a year or so with additional surveys.

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01/05/2013 5:52 PM

"Reports survey asking if people would buy their cars again."

Is this an intelligence test?

I bought and paid for my car once. Why would I want to buy it again if it is already mine?

Is this what the salesman meant by special financing?

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