Posted on 07/13/2009 3:42:58 PM PDT by combat_boots
SYNOPSIS: Transcript of 13 July 2009 Bob Lutz interview with The Takeaway, host John Hockenberry and guest host Farai Chideya.
John Hockenberry: It’s great to talk to you again. We’ve talked over many years and this is certainly a very different moment. Although I have to say, General Motors has typically announced some pretty ambitious plans, even emerging from bankruptcy: 10 new products emerging in the U.S. market; 43, or something like that, nameplates. First of all, wouldn’t it be better to focus on one or two successes like the Camero, you sold 10,000 units of that car as recently as a month ago.
Bob Lutz: Camero is white hot. As a matter of fact, we are focusing down. As you know we had to abandon four brands. Which is Saab, Hummer, Pontiac and…actually three brands, and focus down on Buick, GMC, Chevrolet and Cadillac. We’re going about close to 90 market entities or individual models down to a product portfolio sort of in the mid-30s. We’re really concentrating on excellence and I must say, everything we’ve introduced over the past three years has been introduced to tremendous critical acclaim and has in fact sold well. Our problem was financial and market collapse, it wasn’t that we were building bad vehicles that the public wasn’t buying.
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He has a point, the Malibu and Camaro are selling. The Silverado always was a seller.
I really like Bob Lutz; he’s a real car guy but I don’t know if I want to buy another vehicle from that socialist company, Government Motors, again.
No way the government will continue to allow Chevy to sell Camaro, unless they put a Briggs % Strattom motor in it.
Sure its selling , so is the Silverado, neither woll meet any of the Government Motros gas mileage tests, nor are they likely to in the near future. Camaro is hat the public wants. That isnt waht Obama and the Dems want. Better buy one now , while you can.
Its a chicken egg thing. They cannot pay us back the money if they are boycotted into oblivion.
I won’t endorse the new Gm but encourage everyone to buy American.
it’s like trying to re-invent oneself while carrying two, 20 lb tumors on your body.
And there is the rub.
Not only are there consumers who wont buy, but there are auto parts dealers planning to not sell parts.
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