By Robert Farago
January 11, 2009
The Detroit News [scroll down] is blogging the heck out of the don’t call it The Detroit Auto Show. As always (we can only hope), GM Car Czar Bob Lutz provides the requisite non sequiturs. The DetN’s Snell asked Maximum Bob about the prospect of another, more alpha (in the HUMMER sense) Car Czar, soon to be assigned by Congress to keep watch on the $13.4b of taxpayer money loaned to MB’s employer. Like the idea? He loves it! ”We’ve never had a go-to person in Washington to pour out our hearts to,” Lutz said. “To have a person, a presidential appointee, intimately involved in the industry to review plans and have a dialogue with, I think is a very beneficial institution. I almost wish we had this before.” Almost, but not quite? But don’t worry, Maximum Bob reckons GM will “meet the requirements we signed up for” with the help of the new Cadillac SRX, Chevrolet Equinox and yes, Buick LaCrosse. Of course, that’s not the whole plan. “GM is betting gas prices will rise once the economy recovers and pent-up demand for new vehicles in unleashed. ‘That’s what we’re counting on,’ Lutz said.”
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January 11th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
I am Jack’s pent up demand.
January 11th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
“GM is betting gas prices will rise once the economy recovers and pent-up demand for new vehicles in unleashed. ‘That’s what we’re counting on,’ Lutz said.”
And plan B, C or D is ……??????
January 11th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
I think H or I would be more accurate.
January 11th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
This is getting creepier. It’s like a developing plot in an Ayn Rand novel.
January 12th, 2009 at 1:12 am
“the don’t call it The Detroit Auto Show”
Fair enough.
Then don’t call it that, because it’s not called that.
http://www.naias.com
January 12th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
If he gets along with the appointee, then the appointee is doing it all wrong.