2016 Chevrolet Volt Review Video - Motor Trend - video Dailymotion

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Check out Kim Reynolds driving the new 2016 Chevrolet Volt for the first time on Pacific Coast Highway in this Motor Trend video!

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00:00 As you might be able to tell from the background over there, we're along the California coast

00:13 on highway 1, famous highway 1.

00:16 Experienced the new Volt a bit on these corners and it's a good idea because this car does

00:22 handle quite well.

00:24 Normally you don't think of a Volt and handling as words that necessarily go together, but

00:29 this car I actually like its agility.

00:30 It feels lighter.

00:31 It is a lighter car.

00:33 The drive train is about 100 pounds lighter than before.

00:37 Talk about the design a little bit.

00:39 We were just doing a photo shoot on the side of the road and all of us were commenting

00:44 that it kind of strikes you.

00:45 It has a Honda quality to it, a little bit of a Honda Civic.

00:48 The interior is rather flamboyant as a lot of GM interior designs are.

00:53 To my taste, it's a little much.

00:56 It is attractive.

00:57 I think most people will find it very striking and very attractive.

01:00 I just have more conservative tastes about interiors.

01:03 Displays like this that are cropping up on various cars where they're just sort of stuck

01:09 on.

01:10 This one is sort of a compromise where it's a little bit stuck on, but it does integrate

01:14 and blend into the rest of the design rather thoughtfully.

01:18 The car through these corners, not only does it I think steer rather nicely, but also the

01:24 sense of EV electric motor surging power and torque are really very, very pleasant through

01:31 there.

01:32 It's just like a little wave of push.

01:35 So the battery is bigger.

01:37 It's more powerful.

01:38 It's an 18 kilowatt hour battery.

01:40 It was 16 before as I recall.

01:42 The range of the car should be around over 50 miles.

01:47 EV 53 is the official claim.

01:50 It's a wildly complex transmission.

01:54 It's four dimensional chess.

01:57 It works though and it's working right now and very seamlessly.

02:01 The whole time I'm talking, we ran through the battery.

02:04 The engine started.

02:05 It's not running now.

02:06 Did you notice it?

02:07 Did I notice it?

02:08 I only noticed it now that I'm talking to you and I look down and I realize the engine's

02:12 running.

02:13 I'm quite impressed by the car.

02:14 It drives very nicely.

02:16 It doesn't have any of the defects the first car had.

02:20 Everything about this car is substantially better.

02:22 So it's a heck of a deal, a heck of a bargain, a heck of a lot of technology for the money.

02:29 Nonetheless it's going to be a very interesting cat fight between all these new wild technologies

02:35 to see which one wins.

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