Volt convertible!

[Justin Bimmer]

Road & Track gets the leak from Chevrolet

I think it looks sweet. This will sell to lots of people in SoCal. Goodbye Prius, hello Volt Convertible!

[z28luvr01]

Now that was totally unexpected, and very cool.

[Drew Dowdell]

At the tone, the time will be April 1st at 3:05pm Ding Dong

[hyperv6]

Inagine the the mileage killing weight and drag a convertible would do to the electric range if this had been true.

It's April first for sure!

Edited April 1, 2011 by hyperv6

[SAmadei]

I hate April 1st.

OTOH, this convertible Volt should have existed, or should in the future. If GM came up with the April fools joke (doubt it), it would a real cheesy way to judge public reaction.

[Robert Hall]

A convertible Volt could be a nice addition to the line...high mileage cars can be fun also, not just sober and functional.

[Croc]

That article reeked of BS from the first sentence onward for me. 1) Far too long of an article to genuinely be about a reveal in less than a month. 2) Too may details, and details that don't make any sense (i.e. folding top with photovoltaic cells? So do those get all crinkly? Manual-only top, but photovoltaic cells to power interior cooling fans?) and 3) No picture of the top up. It's easy to photoshop away a roof.

Lame.

[Robert Hall]

This sort of thing is expected for April 1. Another site posted an Accord Crosstour cabrio, as a Nissan Murano cabrio competitor.

[hyperv6]

I would bet removing the top off a Volt would cost ir 7-10 electric miles.

I bet the Volt aero guys got a good laugh at this one with the time they spent to electically close a grill off only to have someone even think about removing the greenhouse.

[Paolino]

I'm surprised people fell for this... it's worse than my dad falling for the "Gmail Motion Beta".

[FAPTurbo]

That article reeked of BS from the first sentence onward for me. 1) Far too long of an article to genuinely be about a reveal in less than a month. 2) Too may details, and details that don't make any sense (i.e. folding top with photovoltaic cells? So do those get all crinkly? Manual-only top, but photovoltaic cells to power interior cooling fans?) and 3) No picture of the top up. It's easy to photoshop away a roof.

Lame.

[smk4565]

At the tone, the time will be April 1st at 3:05pm Ding Dong

Exactly.

A volt convertible would weigh 4,500 lbs. I think the Volt convertible goes on sale the same day as the Honda Crosstour convertible.

[Croc]

That article reeked of BS from the first sentence onward for me. 1) Far too long of an article to genuinely be about a reveal in less than a month. 2) Too may details, and details that don't make any sense (i.e. folding top with photovoltaic cells? So do those get all crinkly? Manual-only top, but photovoltaic cells to power interior cooling fans?) and 3) No picture of the top up. It's easy to photoshop away a roof.

Lame.

...and why's that, because I'm not gullible? C'mon.

If I were really being a buzzkill, I'd have posted something about how puerile and immature the whole "rage graphics" header is on a site trying to position itself as professional. There's a reason that Oldsmoboi co-signed the whole "C&G isn't 4chan" (or reddit for that matter) over in the Buick forum. Good thing I didn't do anything like that because I can't imagine what the reaction would have been.

Edited April 2, 2011 by Croc

[FAPTurbo]

Actually, getting super serious and going on a tangent about a lousy header pretty much validates the 'puerile and immature' header.

Good thing I didn't do anything like that because I can't imagine what the reaction would have been.

We'd probably laugh, hand out a couple plus one's, and go about our merry ways.

Edited April 2, 2011 by Dodgefap

[Croc]

Actually, getting super serious and going on a tangent about a lousy header pretty much validates the 'puerile and immature' header.

Good thing I didn't do anything like that because I can't imagine what the reaction would have been.

We'd probably laugh, hand out a couple plus one's, and go about our merry ways.

Yea I don't think my post constitutes a "rage" against the header, but nice try. Frankly, I think it's pretty obnoxious and immature to name-call and throw shade simply because someone posted why their BS detector went off on an April Fool joke. I mean seriously? Don't start $h! unless you're prepared to get it back because I wasn't originally planning on saying anything about the header containing about as much original thought as going to the fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu sub-reddit and stealing some generic rage graphics.

[z28luvr01]

OK, so some of us got taken for a ride. Let's move on.

This was more convincing than thw Volt ET Truck spyshots that GMI ran yesterday.

[hyperv6]

OK, so some of us got taken for a ride. Let's move on.

This was more convincing than thw Volt ET Truck spyshots that GMI ran yesterday.

Yes, it's time to laugh a little and move on.

[Potluck]

Some of you took this seriously?

[G. David Felt]

Darn, I was going to go to my Chevy dealer to put down a deposit!

[SAmadei]

Some of you took this seriously?

I don't think anyone took it seriously, as we're all jaded enough to know that there is now effectively no real news on April 1st.

That said, its still not such an outrageous idea... and I'd hope that GM considered this idea. In the end, I'm sure a Prius convertible would beat GM to the market, anyway.