Motor Trend Thinks Rush Limbaugh is a Jackass

Hmm. I didn't think it was that funny.... He made a comment questioning their credibility and, as often happens, they fired back to defend themselves. Surprise! They're angry at him over his comments. You've never seen this before? They weren't name calling like you chose to in your subject line.

Anyway, I do somewhat agree with their point against him. Maybe he should let up on the car a bit since he is likely not well informed on it. But he DOES know they're not for sale yet and that they did call it the car of the year already. I wouldn't think it would have been around long enough to be given that status either (as Rush points out) but, whatever supports Obama's agenda.

I have nothing against GM and I wish them the best. But there is a glaring point in that article that sticks out to me that the libs here will miss. In the article, they brag about the wonderful $7,500 tax credit to buy one of these Volts. (As if it's just free money from the heavens.) If it's so great (being the car of the year) and will be in such high demand, why does it need to be subsidized?? $7,500??? Towards a car!? Weren't they just giving $8,000 towards first time HOMES!?

How expensive are these Volts? This company was propped up by the government and now will be putting out a product that could not stand on it's own two feet in the market place. They're going to cross their fingers that it will be a success WITH the $7500 tax credit.

Well, I'm not going to criticize it or celebrate it. I will just say, "Okay."

BTW, B.O.'s good friend Oprah, recently gave everybody in the audience brand new 2012 Volkswagen Beetles on her last favorite things show. Not a lot of thought went into that, but why should we be surprised? Supporting GM wouldn't have been trendy enough. The celebrities are above that. Just the peons are supposed to support them.

 

Jackass on a good day?

 

Did you even read the article or were you compelled to give a shout out from one jackass to another?

I have no problem with Motortrend calling the Volt the car of the year. The technology used for the powertrain sounds very impressive. However, Rush has a point. If Motortrend is dubbing the Volt a "game changer", shouldn't they wait until it actually changes the game before they give the award. After all, the Miami heat are currently 8-7, glad we didn't give them the O'Brien Trophy when Lebron signed his contract in the off season.

The article makes the author look petty IMO, especially the last sentence. Although I did find the clown reference very amusing.

 

Reminds me of BO winning the Nobel Peace Prize.......

 

I read an article in the local paper the other day that I figure Motor Trend may have not considered when naming the Volt the Car of the Year.

That being electrical consumption. Apparently charging one of these babies up requires the electricity to run a typical house. Soooo...if enough people "plug it in" it could overload the local grid which could result in brownouts or blackouts. This would not be good IMHO.

I'm all for hybrids and electric cars. They (electric especially) do need better planning and further R&D and it will come. The cars will get better and I would hope more affordable. Think back to the introduction of hand held calculators here folks. Remember those Texas Instruments models that were so high tech and relatively expesive back in the day? Now they're basicaly disposable.

 

If the people want one, private business will create one.....anything. Government forcing something is not a solution.

 

Yes. And btw, electric cars are not a new concept as most people believe. Jay Leno has an electric car from the early 1900s that looks like a horse carriage. He said there were hundreds of them around New York City around the turn of the century. There were places to plug them in around town. Somehow, the technology and development was pretty much abandoned for 100 years.

 

Very true Vess. I wonder if the oil industry had anything to do with the halt and development of electic cars.

 

Very good documentary entitled "Who Killed the Electric Car". Find it and watch it and you'll see electric cars were squashed (literally). They worked and people loved them.

 

YES !!!! I also watched that on CNBC, it was very enlightening !!!!

 

The irony here is that it was GM that killed the electric streetcars in Los Angeles in the 40's. I guess what goes around comes around. Monopolies and corporations that reach the dreaded, "too big to fail" status kill innovation in favor of the status quo. Captialism works fine until it eventually gets too big and begins to eat it's own young. Those that believe that Capitalism is all bad or that capitalism is all good are both wrong. There is no perfect economic system, just the latest system to be tried before it fails.

 

When's the last time you ever heard anybody go, "Yeah, man, I'm going to buy this car because it gets 40 miles to the charge and 340 miles on a gasoline-powered backup."

This is the most expensive Chevrolet outside a Corvette. All the while Obama wants to get rid of coal. Where does he think we're going to get the electricity to fire these things up? You could say these hybrids are coal-fired cars, coal-powered cars. Black, grimy dirty coal is the primary fuel for green, pristine electric cars and hybrids that can be plugged into an electrical socket. The charging station is your house, so that has gotta include you getting home, it's a 20-mile range……and what about charging that baby 4 hours a day on a 240 plug, 7 days a week. Maybe they should name it the “240 Volt”.

 

A fire at a San Francisco Bay area warehouse where singer-songwriter Neil Young stored memorabilia started in a vintage car the singer had converted into a hybrid vehicle in a much publicized project to promote fuel-efficiency. Think of all the CO2 that was belched into the atmosphere due to this fire. He had turned a 5,000-pound 1959 Lincoln Continental and converted it to a coal-powered car. Neil Young, has a heart of gold, however he did find out that it isn't only love that can break your heart; it's coal. Electric car should have been left unplugged.

 

That's the kind of thinking that makes this country great! LOL Screw finding an alternative to a finite resource! Take baby take! The hell with ramifications!

I love it.

By the way....does this mean Rush Limpaugh ISN'T a jackass? Just curious. (don't want to hijack the thread or anything). LOL