The Union of Concerned Scientists, a thinly-disguised liberal environmentalist lobby group, has been saying for some time that they can design a car better than Detroit. Today, GM invited them to demonstrate how. They weren’t impressed:

GM spokesman Chris Preuss said, “The challenge with the environmentalists is that there is a complete lack of business and technical experience from which they can draw conclusions. “The fact is that we must balance dozens of complex regulatory and consumer issues in producing vehicles — safety, performance, fuel economy and affordability, to name but a few The more we can inform and engage the misconceptions, the more robust the societal discussion will be. For that reason, we think the meeting was very worthwhile.”

The UCS spokesman said:

“I think we will have to build a driveable vehicle” to convince GM the technology works.

I can’t wait to see how the UCS Motor Company performs.