Saturday, December 17, 2011

Hilarious Chevy Volt Commentary - By Shannen W. Coffin - The Corner - National Review Online

Apparently, Audi’s president of North America Johan de Nysschen has derided the Chevy Volt as “a car for idiots.”  He contends that no one “is going to pay a $15,000 premium for a car that competes with a (Toyota) Corolla. . . . So there are not enough idiots who will buy it.”  The Volt, he contends, is simply “for the intellectual elite who want to show what enlightened souls they are.”

But that’s not the funny part.   The funny part is that on a website that apparently is run by GM-cheerleaders, but not directly connected to the company (gm-volt.com), a Volt apologist finds Mr. de Nysschen’s logic internally inconsistent:  “Of course describing the same individuals as both intellectuals and idiots simultaneously doesn’t speak well of this fellow’s logic, which is flawed.”  Now, I’m not going to say that the terms are synonymous, but they certainly aren’t mutually exclusive either.  I’d posit that if you drew an idiot-intellectual Venn diagram, you’d probably get a fair amount of overlap.

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