Dodge Zeo concept

[Mike kZ]

Anyone see the new Dodge EV concept. Looks pretty cool!

http://www.gizmag.com/chrysler-battery-electric-dodge-zeo-muscle-car/9121/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-CyGxR1zyY

[Baja_Traveler]

And thats the problem - ALL concept cars are "oozing sexiness and performance potential". But IF they ever find their way to the street, they end up looking like gramma's sedan after the corporate bean counters get done with them. :mad:

$4.27 for diesel this morning - I'm really going to have to park the truck and buy a Yaris or something until one of these "Concepts" becomes a reality...

[MarkH]

And thats the problem - ALL concept cars are "oozing sexiness and performance potential". But IF they ever find their way to the street, they end up looking like gramma's sedan after the corporate bean counters get done with them. :mad:

$4.27 for diesel this morning - I'm really going to have to park the truck and buy a Yaris or something until one of these "Concepts" becomes a reality...

+1

Really chaps my hide to see all that cool conceptness go the way of the bean counter...

[Keldros]

Worse still, the big car companies have been putting out "bleeding-edge cool technology" concept vehicles for decades. Everything from aerodynamics to advanced electronics to alternative fuels and electric power. They're always saying "look at this, look what we can make when we put our minds to it!" Of all those concepts, how much of them have ever actually made it to a showroom floor? How much of that technology has perpetually been "5-10 years from making it into a production model?"

This is precisely the reason I've given up on the major American manufacturers for the most part and am looking to independents like VV to take the lead in the American auto industry. The big car companies have had the means to do all these things for years, but nothing came of it. Look how long it took American auto makers to respond to Honda and Toyota's hybrids, and even then, their responses have been notably lacking. They have consistently failed to meet the needs and demands of the public, instead trying to keep selling us on the need for huge, gas-guzzling SUV's to drive one person around.

Right now I have a gas-guzzling hand-me-down Buick LeSabre that I need to replace soon with the way gas prices have become. If I do get another vehicle before VV starts production, though, it's probably going to be a Yaris, too.