Chevrolet Volt

Sometimes an off-the-cuff remark can cause no end of headaches – especially when you’re addressing an audience of bloggers. And that’s how Bob Lutz of General Motors must feel after discussing the Chevrolet Volt.

He revealed the production version of the hybrid show model would look different, but still be recognisable as a Volt. That’s because when the car was put into a wind tunnel, the results were so poor that it might have had a better outcome if it had been put in backwards!