Comments on: Lutz: Brands are Back on Track

By: Jeff Puthuff

Jeff Puthuff — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:40:08 +0000

Bring back the Chevy Sprint, and put the Aveo out to pasture.

By: Bancho

Bancho — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:12:15 +0000

Redbarchetta :

“They sold this in the states? How come I never heard of, did it only sell for 1993?”

Look up “Geo Storm”. That was the version we had in the US. It was a neat little car.

By: David Holzman

David Holzman — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:41:03 +0000

Is this man serious? What planet did he just arrive in from? GM still is operating this very same way. Badge engineering is VERY much alive and well at GM!

Actually, his Lutzness has been spending a lot of time on Venus, Mars, and Jupiter, and will be visiting all the others in the next two years because GM has sponsored a new program at NASA to make all the planets just like earth so that GM can sell cars on all of them. Even Pluto will be getting an infusion of tropical beaches, courtesy of the General, using sand from Saudi Arabia. Lutz has said that they can use all that gas on the four outer gasbag planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) to run the cars, but it’s not clear that ExxonMobil is down with the program.

By: hltguy

hltguy — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:17:09 +0000

“Pontiac getting back to its quality built roots” That statement must make the people who purchased Pontiacs the past many years feel warm and fuzzy about GM, they were sold cars built in an era of not “quality built roots”. And when exactly was the “quality built roots”
I still remember my sister in law having a small import called the Pontiac LeMans, what a joke.

By: Bunter1

Bunter1 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:16:50 +0000

Awwww c’mon…how could you guyz doubt the most brilliant man in the biz (just ask any fastlane psychophant).

By: rev0lver

rev0lver — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:00:06 +0000

@ Redbarchetta

I think Asunas were only sold in Canada.

They also sold a tracker clone.

By: jkross22

jkross22 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:06:52 +0000

Lutz next job should be as a judge on American Idol. His grasp of reality is about as firm as Paula Abdul’s after Simon passes her a few pills.

By: Bancho

Bancho — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:01:36 +0000

This needs to be made into a movie (think Airplane) with Leslie Nielsen playing the part of Bob Lutz.

Bob certainly picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

…and don’t call me Shirley!

By: Redbarchetta

Redbarchetta — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:56:34 +0000

What’s Asuna?

EDIT: Never mind looked it up, rebadged Isuzu Impulse, pretty cool looking. They sold this in the states? How come I never heard of, did it only sell for 1993?

By: Kurt B

Kurt B — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:48:19 +0000

@ SherbornSean

And Asuna?

By: SherbornSean

SherbornSean — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:46:05 +0000

When will they bring back Geo?

By: oboylepr

oboylepr — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:15:33 +0000

I wonder if someone should check the quality of the water supplied to RenCen. I would not be surprised if Jason Bourne is now on Toyota’s payroll and has managed to ’spike’ the water pipe leading to the towers. If so, I wonder what is being added! Whatever it is, it seems to alter reality for anyone drinking it. How else could Bobus Maximus say these things while keeping a straight face? Does anyone have the phone number for Detroit’s Water Utility?

By: dmk1976

dmk1976 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:39:06 +0000

Did he really say the 80’s, come on that was twenty years ago! If they are still working on something twenty years ago they have bigger issues then I thought, one woudl think this wuold have been solved years ago. Its no wonder they are in the mess they are in. It’s like GM is the titanic and Lutz is steering the ship, and we all know how that ended.

By: red dawg

red dawg — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:28:05 +0000

Is this man serious? What planet did he just arrive in from? GM still is operating this very same way. Badge engineering is VERY much alive and well at GM!

By: jolo

jolo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:16:35 +0000

“We are undoing the mess we had in the 1980s when every brand had everything, they all looked the same and they were all priced the same.”

This has got to be a new entry for the next Lutz award.

By: Redbarchetta

Redbarchetta — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:02:26 +0000

GM is so dead and Lutz crazy if they think this mess now has “fixed” the branding problems. It means this stupidity of overlap and badge engineering will continue until they are 6 foot under. Same old management, same old GM.

By: Cammy Corrigan

Cammy Corrigan — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:28:31 +0000

I’m currently at work, bored out of my mind and I thank you, TTAC, from the bottom of my British heart for posting this, because after reading this, I promptly pissed myself laughing!

In the United States, Chevrolet is an everyday brand for everyday people. In the UK, it is an “economy” brand (re-badged Daewoos) while Vauxhall is the everyday brand. Chevrolet cheapened their brand, in Europe, by doing this.

If Lutz, believes that all brands are back on track, then I have some magic beans I’d like to sell to him…..

By: GS650G

GS650G — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:08:38 +0000

I think His Lutzness needs his meds upped.