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The Chevy Bolt is reflective of what no other car company is being able to compete with Tesla. Dealers. The Chevy Bolt was a great product that owners almost
by asdajksah2123 3y ago
The Chevy Bolt is reflective of what no other car company is being able to compete with Tesla.
Dealers.
The Chevy Bolt was a great product that owners almost universally loved. However, Chevy dealers would refuse to sell customers one. They certainly wouldn't promote it, and in many cases go out of their way to disparage it.
Maybe this got better with time, but at least when the Bolt was still fairly new, a friend trying to buy one was struggling to get a dealership to even let him test drive one, despite the fact that they were almost certainly available (he still got the test drive, but after much insistence from the dealer that he should test drive another car they had instead).
- cbm-vic-20 3y agoMy wife purchased a Bolt a couple of years before COVID (and the supply chain shortages); can confirm- the dealers really didn't seem to want to sell them. Her office is only a few miles away, and she takes occasional weekend 100+ mile journeys to visit family, so the Bolt fit that bill perfectly. The Bolt has been a great, no-nonsense option. Other than the battery recall, of course. No giant screen, no fart apps. It was the first and at the time, only reasonably priced EV that looked like a regular car, that you could actually take road trips in, and not trapped in a single city due to an impractically small range (Nissan Leaf Gen 1, BMW i3, etc.)
- upon_drumhead 3y agoMy local dealer refuses to let anyone test drive them. I wasn’t even allowed to sit in one when I visited. They said they’re a terrible car and I should buy something way more pricy.