http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2007/01/31/bizarre-breaking-news/ ...politics, pictures, pugs and all that jazz Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2007/01/31/bizarre-breaking-news/comment-page-1/#comment-29401 Donna Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:45:53 +0000 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2007/01/31/bizarre-breaking-news/#comment-29401 GM deserves their troubles for what they did to their brilliant little electric car. No, I have not yet seen the documentary, but I remember the car well -- when I used to get my Saturn serviced, the dealer would use one of the EV1's to drive customers to the mall or wherever while they waited. The EV1 was so cool -- impractical for a mom who worked in downtown LA -- but I had hopes that they would improve on it, create models with a back seat, sell them outright instead of forcing people into leases... and we all know how that ended. Idiots. GM deserves their troubles for what they did to their brilliant little electric car. No, I have not yet seen the documentary, but I remember the car well — when I used to get my Saturn serviced, the dealer would use one of the EV1′s to drive customers to the mall or wherever while they waited. The EV1 was so cool — impractical for a mom who worked in downtown LA — but I had hopes that they would improve on it, create models with a back seat, sell them outright instead of forcing people into leases… and we all know how that ended. Idiots.

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