If you are a Chevrolet Fan and like the latest and greatest features, then the new Chevy Volt is for you. Now that it is in pre-production, you can start to see the true shape of the Volt's future.

Below is a video of the Cheif Engineer on the Chevy Volt Electric Car Project, Andrew Farah, actually driving the pre-production model. This is like beta testing in the software world, and is quite interesting to watch.

Last year when gas almost reached five bucks we all took a hard look at the amount of fuel we used everywhere. In our cars, in our homes and reconsidered the need for our higher gas mileage cars and trucks.

Well lately prices have been creeping up again, so I thought now would be a good time to feature a car that was designed to be great on gas and to be the least expensive car in America.

Its the Chevrolet Aveo, and with all the giveaways and incentives it is a really great buy.

2009 Chevrolet Aveo, lowest prices car in the USAThe well appointed 2009 Chevrolet Aveo is a beautifullydesigned compact car. Most people don't realize that Chevrolet has the most cars with gas mileage under 30mpg and the Aveo is truely the charmer of the catagory.

The automatic transmission features a hold control mode to hold a higher gear and to aid traction on slippery roads. By utilizing "tall car" design aesthetics, both body styles are quite roomy inside and have a comfortable ride relative to other small cars. On the Aveo5, the standard GM OnStar sets it apart from other cars in its class.

MSNAuto.com consumer reviews:

2009 Chevrolet Aveo, 35mpg and oh so cuteUser Reviews

	8.8		Overall Rating
	8.8		Styling
	8.2		Performance
	9.2		Interior
	9.0		Quality
	8.8		Recommendation

Reviewer #1: "It's cute, sporty, brand new, and about 14k out the door. The interior is nice and overall it's a pretty good looking car. It runs on fairly low RPM's which helps fuel economy and is pretty quiet and smooth at high speeds."

Reviewer #2:

"AVEO - The New CHEVY EXPERIENCE - The best small car made! Smooth Ride, no road noise at all, easy to steer, looks sporty and great, comfortable to seat in and operate to drive, GREAT MPG 44-46 hwy 34-37 city, plenty of power/pep, great radio stereo equipment, love ONSTAR and Satellite radio option, lots of leg room, seats 4 people easy, very easy to see out of the windows all directions, large trunk with fold down seats, fun to drive and sips gas, for the price and quality you cannot go wrong with this car it is tremendous!"

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Excerpt from Detroit Free Press:

Chevy Volt Electric CarGeneral Motors drove a stake through the notion that environmentally friendly electric cars can’t also be fun and sporty in a brief test drive of the company’s Chevrolet Volt powertrain this morning.

A fast, smooth blast from zero to 70 m.p.h. on the roads within the GM Tech Center in Warren proved the car can be electrifying as well as electric-powered.

The Volt is on schedule to go on sale in November 2010, GM vice chairman Bob Lutz said.

GM has about 35 test vehicles on the road equipped with the electric motor and lithium-ion batteries that will power the Volt. Those development cars have the body of the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze compact, which uses the same architecture as the Volt.

GM will put 80 Volts with the production car’s sleek and futuristic body on the road beginning in June.

The test vehicle ran with smooth, quiet power, but driving it felt reassuringly like getting behind the wheel of any new car. That’s a key goal for the Volt program, GM electric vehicle chief Frank Weber said.

“People must understand that you don’t have to give anything up to drive an electric vehicle,” Weber said. “This is something you will really like and enjoy.”

The test car’s electric motor provided immediate torque for acceleration most sporty small cars would envy.

The Volt is designed to cover about 40 miles on electricity stored in the big lithium-ion battery pack that runs down the center of the car. For longer trips, a 1.4-liter gasoline engine will kick in to recharge the batteries. Unlike hybrids, the engine never drives the wheels.

The onboard generator frees the Volt of the drawback that crippled previous electric cars: range. While an electric vehicle without a generator must stop and recharge when the batteries run low, the Volt has an essentially unlimited range, and should be able to cover 500 to 600 miles on the combination of battery power and a single tank of gasoline.

Contact MARK PHELAN: phelan@freepress.com or 313-222-6731.

From GM-Volt.com

These are very interesting questions. About a year ago we worked through them and here is where we are...

1. Customer access to High Voltage
The customer will have no access to high voltage. In fact, if the customer accidentally takes some action that might get them close to high voltage (e.g. disconnects a HV connection) then the system will cut off that voltage up stream of the potential breach. As with all systems, “nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool”, but we have a number of layers of HV protection for the customer, the service technician, and the vehicle assembler.

2. “Jump” Start
We had also wrestled with this issue on the EV1. Answer there was no jump start of any kind, but the EV1 had a different electrical architecture that offered other remedies. For Volt the answer is a bit more conventional. Yes, we have a 12v battery. It is not a typical automotive “flooded” lead, but a sealed “acid starved” type.... and it is capable of providing enough power to jump start another vehicle.

Chevrolet's Electric Car Site .

2010 CamaroOk I know I'm a car guy, but you have to admit the New Chevrolet Camaro is hot. Chevy nailed it with this one, don't you think? This will be an instant classic.

Edmunds.com says:

OK, we're going to get straight to the point here. The 2010 Chevrolet Camaro rocks. After years of anticipation, Chevy's new Camaro not only lives up to the hype but also redefines what a muscle car can be. The traditional stereotype goes something like this -- the affordable base model looks fast but goes slow due to a lumpy V6, while the V8-powered model will do apocalyptic burnouts in the high school parking lot but can't corner to save its (or your) life. The latest Dodge Challenger comes uncomfortably close to this archetype, and the Ford Mustang is at least guilty on the V6 front. But this new Camaro, well, it's an altogether different beast.

NCTD.com Says:

It'll feel a bit like back to the future, as GM's iconic pony re-emerges to compete with the Ford Mustang and Dodge Challenger.

The new Camaro will be available with a 3.6-liter V6 aided by a six-speed automatic, a combination expected to be rated at 26 mpg on the highway. Enthusiasts will gravitate to the Camaro SS, equipped with a powerful V8 and a choice of manual and automatic transmissions and 20-inch wheels. The Camaro will be built on GM's new global rear-wheel-drive architecture.

The production version looks essentially identical to the concept first shown at the 2006 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, a remarkable achievement given the demands a modern design must meet. Compared with the retro-styled Mustang and Challenger, the Camaro has a more contemporary and angular appearance that looks more cutting edge.

This is not a reissued '69 Camaro. In fact, some might have wondered if this car was designed in the Chevy studio at all. It's edginess looked Cadillac inspired.

Underneath, it's thoroughly modern, offering the latest in technology.

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