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They do better work now, but the hype machine is still in full swing. It's actually disturbing, how every car that comes out of GM is trumpeted as the car that Christ Himself Will Drive For the Second Coming. It doesn't help that GM's fans, as well as the media, seem to think that GM's products exist in a vacuum. Do they really think that Toyota will be selling the 2003 Prius in 2010? Or that Ford, Honda or Nissan will be sitting on their thumbs as well?

The Volt is just the latest version of this: a press-release darling meant to take your attention away from the fact that, other than the two-mode trucks, GM is still playing second-fiddle to Ford and Nissan, never mind Toyota, in this market.

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