Happy New Year’s Eve to all our readers. While you’ve been seeing many top 10 lists all over the Internet as we say farewell to 2010 one of the lists you’re most likely to come across on automotive sites are the Top 10 Cars of 2010…well, not here (we’ll do one too, don’t worry). We [...]
Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, has periodically taunted U.S. automakers saying that Detroit wants to be everything Tesla is if it could start over – a cooler, greener automaker who is headquartered in a better neighborhood. “We’re a Silicon Valley company,” Musk, who is the inspiration of Tony Stark’s character in Iron [...]
Transonic Combustion, Inc., a fuel-injection systems startup, announced today that Bob Lutz has joined the company’s board of directors. “Lutz brings to Transonic’s leadership team a legendary career in the global automotive industry, including senior leadership positions at four of the world’s leading automakers,” Transonic said in a statement. “For the foreseeable future, the internal [...]
GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz officially spent his last day at General Motors yesterday looking forward to his first official day as a retired auto executive (May 1). Writing over at GM’s FastLane Blog, Lutz said: As I mark my last day at General Motors today, I want to say a special thank you and [...]
General Motors Vice President Bob Lutz, who is scheduled to retire from 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
