Designing Green: GM's Future Bare Necessities Car

Inside GM Advanced Design, the team is working on the environmentally-friendly vehicles of the future. Take an inside look at their eco project and learn more about GM's future vehicles at thelab.gmblogs.com

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[ManFromSaturn]

What jeffseelig said.

Incidentally, after a decade of selling Hummers and other mis-engineered, poorly planned monstrosities, with a business that somehow managed to garnish our W-2s for generations; what does one call the 'promise' of a well designed auto.

I'd lump this in the Volt, pure Greenwash.

Will GM (or any N.American maker) come out with a car that will at least par with it's international competitors?

You've got plenty of time, my '96 Accord only has 200,000 miles on it.

[Tressym]

every time they say "less parts" take a drink. you won't make it to the end.

OR

every time the "lead designer" girl ends a sentence like she is asking a question take a drink.

[deedundone]

the fact is, there are a lot of different cr buyers. Some want Efficiency, Some want Drive-ability. Id buy a Volt and A Cadillac XTS if I could lol. I want something with efficiency, but I also ant to turn around and, well, show off lol..... Either way, Im more about luxury in any case, then Speed. I think Gm is just now having a rebirth in nearly every brand. Keep it up.

[badgerbuddy]

WHAT A FAG CAR!. bring back the big guns.... WE WANT BIG BLOCKS

[Rinaldster92]

The small car i would by is the Grey one, the white looks too kiddish for me. The Grey one has a strong muscular stance and has some American styling. The White one has somewhat of European design language.

[skewbe]

The only new car I ever bought or wanted to buy was a metro.

[enomarekim]

Just think, technically this is propaganda and corporatism. What will come of this?, the world may never know.

[colderbeer]

These kinds of cars could be HUGE hits if they're priced under 10K. And to go with that, they'll need to be fun to drive, efficient, safe, stylish, and have a nice ad campaign to get the word out.

[GeorgeO5CARHarrison]

Give me a Z28!

[LypheusX]

You need to understand the environment my Mustang drives in before making too many assumptions. While up in Prince George we had -42C weather (always started and ran) and in Nanaimo you get some real hills an back roads (i.e. dont fall asleep or you fall off a mountain/cliff and have fun over those log bridges).

I'll put my Mustangs up against anything on the road, the Ford 289 and straight 6's last forever from my experience.

My 2009 V6 pony gets 32mpg right now, 3 hrs commute daily on her.

[ManFromSaturn]

*one* over 200k?

Oh, and all three of these rice burners got mpg > 30, you can thank me for not putting an additional strain on your Albertan tap water.

As my country is bailing out 2 of the Detroit3 and is doing the cash for clunkers thing (curiously, my car does not qualify, certainly tells me something) I'm a little disgruntled at how this industry has been managed.

Post-hoc bail-out rationalizations like this promo are an insult to our intelligence.

Utter Greenwash.