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Presenting the Chevy Volt Dancers

John Picard

John Picard

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Bailout dollars at work.

How quickly dreams can become nightmares.
Just a few days after the engineering team behind the Chevrolet Volt triumphantly rolled out the production version of its much-anticipated car for journalists to test, the folks in marketing followed it up with folk music, break dancing, and what looks like a few rejects from a 1986 high school production of the "Pirates of Penzance".
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Although it looks more like a "Saturday Night Live" skit, the dance routine that was performed on the Volt display at the Los Angeles Auto Show is all too real. Captured by a visitor who uploaded the video to YouTube, three females wearing puffy shirts and the aforementioned break dancer, who also plays air guitar, shake just about everything on their bodies for the duration of the song. Often out of sync. Reportedly, the cringe-inducing interpretation of an electric-powered future took place every hour during the ten days of the show.
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Over the past year, I've been reading articles by many market analysts that have stated the Volt will be a complete failure. GM's new management is like the current administration -- a great example of the blind leading the naked.
 
Someone's getting fired.

As the resident GM defender even I can't defend this. The car will be great and I'd love to have one, but this kind of shit sinks both the car and GM as a whole. Sadly GM doesn't quite know how to do promotion, haven't for a long time. Last genuinely good GM ad I can remember (aside from the kickass ones Saab we've had here) is the one Michael Bay did a few years back for the entire Chevy lineup. That just kicked ass and was a great and good looking ad.

Oh and for all the talk about "oh American car makes doesn't know what sells, I'd rather buy a Japanese car they have better quality" I'd like to add: one of the biggest hits of the year in terms of cars is the Camaro SS, that's right the V8 version (the V6 has sold as well but not nearly as much). One of the biggest product recalls is Toyota's hybrids where the car would accelerate and go out of control, which at last count was seven models numbering in the thousands that was recalled.

Key point: everyone can fuck up. But everyone can get it right if they work at it.


As for the administration bit...not touching that.
 
I think it's actually kind of funny, what does that have to do with the bailout?

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvwTMZNWGuk&feature=player_embedded[/yt]
 
That's really quite lame. It's like a junior highschool Pep Squad routine.

The brown-haired girl on the left though is quite hot.
 
Okay JP, you owe all of us two minutes and twenty two seconds of life to make up for what we lost watching that.
 
Yeah I was gonna say "You actually watched it all?" I just skipped forward to regular intervals to see if anything except...that...happened.
 
LOL no fucking way that's real. No fucking way. :lol:

The only thing worse than the "dance" routine was the song.
 
This thing has an air of unreality to it like those scenes in Demolition Man where corny commercial jingles are all the rage.

E for electricity
V for Chevy Volt, you see

I can just see Sylvester Stallone pleading for someone to put him back in the freezer.
 
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