[citation][nom]larkspur[/nom]But since the US Federal government owns half of GM, wouldn't that make their share of the blame be at least 50% making it more their fault than FNC's 25%? Wasn't it GM themselves who marketed the car as a completely new concept which, since the Prius had been out for years, implies something other than a hybrid? Ah, but what-the-heck, let's continue to blame failures in the US auto industry on news organizations and not on the management of the companies themselves. ; )[/citation]Credit where credit is due, I watched Glenn Beck lie about the car. Neil Cavuto got it right eventually. Eric Bowling never corrected Kimberly Guilfoyle who kept insisting that his loaner car "broke down" every day in Holland Tunnel. They have a narrative, that its an invalid concept that nobody would want, while at the same time people were spending thousands of dollars to turn their Prius into a Toyota version of the Volt.
That is, people were spending big bucks to make a Prius into a plug-in hybrid. So the concept does sell, it's simply not selling for GM due mostly to poor marketing. Fox News played a big role in killing the remaining, viable portion of its market. They did this for what, to criticize the government's role in GM? The news that nobody is reporting, is that GM has been slowly working towards this project since the EV1, and that the Volt, their "fallback position" product, has been on the boards since long before GM went broke.
The fact that the government stole GM ownership (bonds) from retirment funds and handed that portion over to the UAW is a true scandle, and one that has little to do with GM pre-failure or the Volt project that was started all those years back.