Comments on: When Maximum Men Meet Minimum Times

By: Kendahl

Kendahl — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:39:46 +0000

By any standard, the CTS is a very good car. GM doesn’t need to apologize to anyone for building it.

According to all the reviews, the Pontiac GTO was a pretty good car. My principal objection to it was its large size. (I have the same complaint about the CTS and BMS 5 series.)

By: nevets248

nevets248 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:24:14 +0000

my, how times have changed.
Usually one could listed to Ms. Lindland gush over how great “Bob” was and the “great job” he was doing at “the tubes” to turn around GM.
Guess what?
game over!!

By: nevets248

nevets248 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:17:32 +0000

more shrill braying from Lindland.
she used to gush like Old Faithful on how he (Lutz) was going to play THE role in ‘product’ being the savior at GM.

By: drifter

drifter — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:22:46 +0000

If congress approves a bailout, there should be gag-order on Bobs along with compensation caps of executives.

By: gaycorvette

gaycorvette — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:00:25 +0000

Lutz is the perfect example of the charismatic executive for whom their own personal BS PR is the only thing they actually cultivate/produce. When you look at his actual product track record (Lucerne, anyone? GTO?) you realize just how sucktastic he is at his job.

Let him fly his fighter jet back to Switzerland and be done with him.

By: yankinwaoz

yankinwaoz — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:02:39 +0000

Re: The CEO’s flew private corporate jets for this begging trip. Yup, they sure did!

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=31716

By: autonut

autonut — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:45:49 +0000

The last great auto leader Iaccoca did not mince words about him. Usually people don’t say much about past colleagues if they have nothing good to say. The guy must be real gem for Iaccoca to lambaste him publicly.

By: Cicero

Cicero — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:36:57 +0000

PR nightmare? Well, try this.

Seems Wagoner and his counterpart grandees went to beg for federal funds in high style. ABC News is reporting that Wagoner, Mullaly and Nardulli all came to D.C. to plead poverty on their “private luxurious jets,” because after all, mere First Class on a commercial flight just wouldn’t do. The money quote:

“Wagoner’s private jet trip to Washington cost his ailing company an estimated $20,000 roundtrip. In comparison, seats on Northwest Airlines flight 2364 from Detroit to Washington were going online for $288 coach and $837 first class.

After the hearing, Wagoner declined to answer questions about his travel.”

This is tragically hilarious. Has there ever been a group of blockhead CEOs that were so insulated from reality that they wouldn’t see red flags all over this little escapade? They couldn’t find a commercial flight or a train, just this once? I thought that these guys couldn’t be as stupid as they often seem (Wagoner, are you listening?) but now I’m convinced that they really are. They’ve earned failure. It’s no wonder GM is gasping for air.

By the way, that sound you hear is the last nail being hammered into the coffin of the Big 2.8’s appeal for federal bailout funds.

By: John Horner

John Horner — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:47:39 +0000

Lutz has been Maximum BS for a long time. The only thing funny about the current situation is watching the mainstream media catch up with us amateurs.

By: jkross22

jkross22 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:39:16 +0000

Sending Bob out here would be fatal to GM’s prayers of a taxpayer funded delayed Ch. 11 filing. He’d say something like “GM’s alleged liquidity issues are bullshit”.

That’d be great.