Remember how Tesla Motors’ CEO Elon Musk said that the company was looking forward from the uber-expensive, electrified Lotus that is the Roadster towards a future with a more affordable, family-style sedan? This was to answer critics of the company’s low volume and high price tag on said Roadster as to the company’s true future. [...]
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GM Puts Chevy Plate On WTF Pod Car
October 15th, 2011 
Aaron Turpen Government Motors has shown off its version of what future “commuting” will look like in their pea pod concept. Not content with that, the company decided that in order to ramp up the marketing, they needed to re-badge the EN-V Pod Car concept with a Chevrolet bowtie and send out another press release in hopes [...]
Why CAFE Standards Don’t Mean Anything
August 25th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Back at the end of July, a lot of hubub in the automotive press said that President Obama was pushing for new, stricter, more environmentally-friendly fuel standards for the Environmental Pontification Agency’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE). These will be an extension of the standards set earlier this year that are effective through to 2016. [...]
How “Success” Gets Defined When You’re Government Motors
July 27th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Apparently, all of those people in Washington D.C. who’ve never had a real job in their lives but have always managed to make a lot of money off of everyone else have a different definition of what “success” means than do the rest of us out here in the real world. If you’re under the [...]
Volt Tax Credit Scam?
June 7th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Some Republican at the National Legal and Policy Center wrote a blog about how Chevy dealers are ripping off the taxpayer by buying and selling Volts to one another to gain the tax credit. They then lie to their customers that the credit is available and pocket the money themselves. Sound like something these price [...]
Being Government Motors Means No Tax Bill
March 5th, 2011 Aaron Turpen As if being bailed out by the federal government, pretending to pay it back, and effectively becoming Government Motors wasn’t enough.. now GM gets to avoid paying taxes too, thanks to it’s sweetheart bailout deal. Of course, since GM is Government Motors, I guess having government pay taxes to itself is kind of redundant. On [...]
