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Originally Posted by oklapike
That sounds extremely badass. Though I'll be honest, that sounds more like the car Cadillac should have built as a Tesla competitor rather than the ELR.
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I cried when I found out what they did with the ELR.
It's an upscale Chevy Volt with a tuning bump.
I love my daughter's Chevy Volt. It will kick to the curb all the other pretenders. It violates a 2014 Prius so bad that you could be charged with rape.
It puts up a pretty good show against a lot of FWD "performance" cars.
With me at the helm, I was cutting about the same AutoX lap times with the Volt as I did with our CTS-V (556HP). Seriously. I'm not an expert, but I don't totally suck either.
The ELR could have been SO GOOD. GM knows Electric. They KNOW 4-banger. But why they had to do that to the ELR is beyond comprehension. WHAT where they thinking?
That a Luxury Volt would be a show stopper? ARE YOU HIGH???? They should have learned their lesson with the Cimarron. You can't sell an econobox to a Caddy buyer by dressing it up.
To sell the ELR, all they had to do was to put the i4 Turbo in as the backup engine, and all would be OK.
But to kill the Tesla, they needed to put a second traction motor in the rear.
It would have increased the price about $15,000 to bump to i4 Turbo + 2nd traction motor, but it would have had 420++ HP. And killed the Tesla.