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General Motors Vice President Bob Lutz, who is scheduled to retire his position on May 1, recently said GM will keep making big trucks and SUVs because U.S. buyers demand them, but a major portion of them will be gasoline-electric hybrids. He also said that the Detroit automaker will pay back its bailout loan at [...]

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General Motors confirmed last week that Vice Chairman Bob Lutz will retire effective May 1, 2010. What is Lutz going to do after that? According to AutoObserver Lutz will:

Write a book – something on corporate culture.
Entertain the idea of writing for an automotive media outlet.
Talk – will sign on with a bureau to do lecture [...]

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Yesterday, General Motors confirmed that Vice Chairman Bob Lutz will officially retire on May 1. Why does Bob Lutz want to retire?
In a statement, Lutz said:
“I can confidently say that the job I came here to do more than nine years ago is now complete – the team I have been fortunate to lead has [...]

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General Motors has just announced that Vice Chairman Bob Lutz will retire effective May 1, 2010. Lutz, 78, will end his 47-year career in the global auto industry after holding senior leadership positions at four of the world’s leading automakers.
“The influence Bob Lutz has had on GM’s commitment to design, build and sell the world’s [...]

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At a Society of Automotive Analysts in July, GM’s Vice Chairman Bob Lutz confirmed that the Cadillac Converj will enter production and would appear sometime after 2012.
According to a report by Bloomberg today, GM has now stopped work on the Cadillac Converj, an electric-drive Caddy coupe similar to the Chevrolet Volt. Two executives familiar with [...]

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Speaking to Reuters, General Motors’ Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said that the company’s new models are helping the automaker gain U.S. market share regardless of Toyota’s recall problems. Lutz said that GM expects its U.S. market share to be “definitely higher” than the 19.9 percent it achieved in 2009.
“If the competitor’s weakness at some point [...]

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As G.M.’s executive salaries are under review as part of the whereby the government invested billions in the ailing company in June, Vice Chairman Bob Lutz – who also serves as the company’s VP of marketing – says that G.M.’s execs are extremely under-compensated, given the nature of their jobs and the market in which [...]

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General Motors’ Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has officially confirmed that the Cadillac Converj Concept will enter production and will use the same Voltec technology as the Chevrolet Volt.
Speaking at a Society of Automotive Analysts meeting Sunday, Lutz declined to give any official date on the production Converj, but said it would appear after 2012.
“You’ll see [...]

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Maximum Bob Lutz is filling in for former GM CEO Fritz Henderson this morning at the 2009 LA Auto Show to deliver the Keynote address. You can check out the live video right here after the jump.
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Earlier in July, Bob Lutz confirmed that the Cadillac CTS-V Coupe is on the way with a possibility of a CTS-V Sport Wagon. It was later confirmed by an ‘inside source’ that CTS-V lineup will be extended to the Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon. Today, CARandDRIVER is reporting that Bob Lutz has confirmed a production CTS-V [...]

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