The Volt was rushed. As a hybrid, it's pretty good. As a car (ergonomics, user-friendliness, etc) it's not so hot. The B-pillar is in your way when you turn y

The Volt was rushed. As a hybrid, it's pretty good. As a car (ergonomics, user-friendliness, etc) it's not so hot. The B-pillar is in your way when you turn your head to look left. The use of capacitance switches in a car ought to be a firing offense (no tactile feedback and muscle memory is useless because there's nothing for the fingertip to guide the last millimeter of motion). Honda is learning this with the low ratings on their new volume knob-less radio. The Bolt on the other hand, seems to addressed all those. The local car show is in a couple of weeks and I hope to see one there. Totally agree about "The merger of equals". No such thing. The Germans took Chrysler for everything they could, like you said - to prop up product quality disasters like the ML and E class (a coworker went through 5 window regulators on his E-430 over 2 years. I had something break on my ML-320 on average every 8.5 weeks)