Chuck
03-10-2009, 01:36 PM
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/2/AmericanFlag.jpg "I've never quite been in this situation before of getting a massive pay cut, no bonus, no longer allowed to stay in decent hotels, no corporate airplane. I have to stand in line at the Northwest counter." - Bob Lutz to NPR radio (http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/blogs/cars-transportation/general-motors-robert-lutz-460209)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/lutz.jpgJim Motavalli - The Daily Green (http://www.thedailygreen.com/) - Feb 12, 2009
If this is a "thanks" article, it must be have been served with a heavy amount of sarcasm. -- Ed.
I for one am not all that sorry to see Bob Lutz finally throwing in the towel. The General Motors vice chairman is the wrong person to lead GM in the new century. When it comes to green cars, he tried to toe the company line, but it was plain that he just didn't get it.
He constantly disparaged even the concept of hybrid cars (http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/fuel-efficient-cars-47102201) (at least until GM started building them), proclaimed that there was no business case for the Toyota Prius (now the company's third best-selling model), and announced that global warming is a "crock of ****," and that methane from cows is actually a bigger problem.
At a car show, before GM introduced its fuel-cell platform, no less, we were treated to a home video of the now 77-year-old Lutz, a former fighter pilot, buzzing around in his very own jet fuel-guzzling Eastern Bloc warbird (http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/500/my_own_little_mission.jpg). Journalists loved him, because he was always good for a macho-sounding, "car guy" quote....http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/blogs/cars-transportation/general-motors-robert-lutz-460209
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/lutz.jpgJim Motavalli - The Daily Green (http://www.thedailygreen.com/) - Feb 12, 2009
If this is a "thanks" article, it must be have been served with a heavy amount of sarcasm. -- Ed.
I for one am not all that sorry to see Bob Lutz finally throwing in the towel. The General Motors vice chairman is the wrong person to lead GM in the new century. When it comes to green cars, he tried to toe the company line, but it was plain that he just didn't get it.
He constantly disparaged even the concept of hybrid cars (http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/fuel-efficient-cars-47102201) (at least until GM started building them), proclaimed that there was no business case for the Toyota Prius (now the company's third best-selling model), and announced that global warming is a "crock of ****," and that methane from cows is actually a bigger problem.
At a car show, before GM introduced its fuel-cell platform, no less, we were treated to a home video of the now 77-year-old Lutz, a former fighter pilot, buzzing around in his very own jet fuel-guzzling Eastern Bloc warbird (http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/500/my_own_little_mission.jpg). Journalists loved him, because he was always good for a macho-sounding, "car guy" quote....http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/blogs/cars-transportation/general-motors-robert-lutz-460209