Flaming_Maniac wrote:
They can pull the production, that's fine. The problem I see is why the hell were they crushing perfectly good cars that people wanted. Literally all they had to do was use the resources to take the money from people who were thrusting it at them (the movie had several people like that, even if it's only ten, why not?) and they wouldn't have any of it. Seems to me if nothing else it would have been good PR for them.
Well since they don't want to keep producing parts for them and servicing them since it was such a tiny market and they would just be operating at a lost, they couldn't let the people keep the cars. If something were to go wrong with them, even some tiny problem, they would be junk since there's no replacement parts for it anywhere. And you know how mad the consumers would be if they had a minor accident and the car was considered totalled just because you couldn't fix it? And if you agree with that, what are they supposed to do with all the cars they pulled? Keep them in a garage? They're not going to pay for storage like that, they're just going to scrap them.
Somebody said above that Tesla's working on a couple all-electric powered cars and that's great. This time they're going to succeed since there's such a greater demand for them. There's a couple other alternative fuel vehicles up and coming too. I recently heard that Tesla is making a $30k model but I'm not sure since the source wasn't that reliable and that was the only place I heard of it from, I did hear $60k from a reliable source from Tesla. GM also has the Chevy Volt coming in line. It's kind of hybrid, kind of not. It runs the first 40 miles purely off electricity and after that the gas engine kicks in but its only job is to charge the battery, not to run the car so when it finally does hit the gas portion, you get something ridiculous like 80mpg and that's only when it's not running off electricity. If electric cars aren't to your liking, GM also has a hydrogen powered car that is also scheduled to come out in 2010, the magic year for alternative fuel vehicles, called the Hy-Wire. I don't know about you but I'm going to take a serious look into one of those Chevy Volts.