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The legendary Bob Lutz was an outspoken automotive industry mover and shaker, so his book "Car Guys versus Bean Counters" (Portfolio Penguin, $26.95) promises to be the place where he unloads much angst. Lutz doesn't disappoint.

Lutz said the American auto industry's plunge into bankruptcy was more down to tunnel vision from business school graduates than union greed. He beats on the media for favoring foreign cars over domestic ones and politicians for not having the guts to introduce a European style gas tax, and he lauds Volkswagen's leader Ferdinand Piech for his tough but successful management style.

Lutz is also justly proud of perhaps his last big decision before he ended his career at GM - forcing the revolutionary Chevrolet Volt past the doubters.

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110614/OPINION03/106140318/Lutz-says-business-theorists-hurt-auto-industry-more-than-UAW#ixzz1Ps2dT56F

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The legendary Bob Lutz was an outspoken automotive industry mover and shaker, so his book "Car Guys versus Bean Counters"...

The summary demonstrates that Lutz wasn't much of a "car guy".

"Car guys" don't count on political correctness and European-style gas taxes to sell their cars.

Lutz is a fraud.