GM has spent 3 times the money marketing and has released more information about the Volt, than has ever come from Daimler about their smart.

Even though the lithium batteries General Motors themselves stated they need to power it haven't been invented yet and but Chevy promises the Volt will be ready for public sale in 2010.

Regrettably, an original phrase is approaching the automotive industry.

It is called “Vapor-Vehicle” design; it isn't an entirely negative terminology and is a by-product of Vaporware, a term used mostly in the computer industry.

However, it can apply to other products. On occasion vaporware was the consequence of over-optimism on the part of a well meaning corporation, and may possibly come about after a long wait, sometimes years.

With oil at $100 a barrel the “Vapor-Vehicle” era is upon us.

Every upper management person involved in the Smart project should have known the cars potential and that inventories of 20,000 cars would not be ample. However, for reasons known only to those in charge, they are not prepared for, or willing to meet our demands for these types of cars.

Sadly, the reality about the Smart is, as it was in Canada, the 2008 Smart Car is sold out long before it gets to any Smart USA dealerships showroom.

Just like our cousins to the North the supplies of the Smart will be hit, and miss for several years.

So for now one can only imagine how many Smart cars really could be and hopefully will be, sold to the American public.