Well OK — here’s your Chevy Volt with a bunch of dudes standing in front of it. And by “dudes” we mean Bob Lutz and friends. According to our very in the know source (wink wink), these pics went live on the GM Media site by accident and The Car Connection went ahead and ran ‘em. The “official” Volt introduction isn’t for a few weeks yet. But never mind that inside baseball crap — what do we make of the Volt? Well sir, it sure ain’t good looking like it used to be. Specifically, the once low and broad face is gone in favor of a taller, rounded Prius like front end. In fact, the entire car is shaped more like a Prius than the fairly muscular looking protypte Volt we’ve grown almost fond of. The rear deck on the new car is almost totally plagiarized from Toyota. But hey, the Chevy runs on batteries and can either be plugged into a wall, or recharged via a small, on board gas engine. So — assuming it all works — that’s pretty damn neat.Go GM.

