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Jalopnik.com: Is the Volt a Sales Flop?

General Motors has repeatedly claimed a sales target for 2011 of 10,000 units for the plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt sedan. But, nine months into the year, they've only shipped 3,895 off the lot. In fact, in September sales numbers, released an hour ago, GM sold only 723 Volts. Will GM fail to meet its own sales predictions?

The Chevrolet Volt scored dead last, 12th on the list of 12 "greenest 2011 vehicles."




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This may be the biggest story of the day ... and, without googling it, can anyone find the source?

According to GM's January deliveries report, the Volt, which was named Motor Trend's Car of the Year, last month was a bit of a letdown.

A whopping 321 Volts were sold, down from 326 in December. The Nissan Leaf, Europe's Car of the Year, fared even worse, moving 87 vehicles off dealers' lots. However, this is something of a win for Nissan, as only 19 Leafs (Leaves?) were purchased the month before.

This is the best link.

Also, the smallest of possible blurbs hidden in the back pages of the Wall Street Journal. If the link is broken, it is not worth the time looking for the story. I'm sure Phil Lebeau (CNBC) will be all over this. Yeah, right. Not.


[Update, February 6, 2011: I do not recall one time during that week that Phil Lebeau came on CNBC to talk about the sorry state of the Chevy Volt sales.]