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Lutz: High-performance Chevy Volt SS a "possibility"

Electric vehicles are for people who would rather drive slow, boring commuter cars that don't consume fossil fuels and therefore don't spew pollutants from their tailpipes. Gas-powered cars – and especially those wearing time-honored badges like SS, R/T or GT – are for those that prefer fire-breathing, tire-screeching performance and care much more about nitrous oxide than nitrogen oxide. We all agree on these points, right? Not so fast, says Bob Lutz. When asked whether or not Chevy could shock the performance crowd with an ... Read more →

Lutz: GM is OK with losing money on the Volt for a while Jeremy Korzeniewski

According to Bob Lutz, General Motors has known how to make a hybrid for years, but held off of building one because they projected that they would lose as much as $250 million per year building ...

Lutz: Volt Battery supply deal a "horse race," finish line moved. Domenick Yoney

In commenting on the battle royal taking place on the testing benches at GM between two contending battery suppliers, "Maximum" Bob Lutz said Tuesday it was a "horse race. An apt analogy in a sense ...

Bob Lutz not backing down on the whole global warming is a "total crock of sh*t" thing Sebastian Blanco

Remember when GM's Bob Lutz called global warming a "total crock of sh*t"? Well, that comment wasn't a slip and the blowback sure didn't cause Lutz to apologize or somehow say, "see, what I meant ...

Lutz says gas prices will need to go up if Americans are to embrace small cars Sebastian Blanco

Bob Lutz often makes a lot of sense. The GM vice chairman is saying the right things about the Chevy Volt and where GM is going in the future, but there's a line in this story from Automotive News ...

Lutz says new CAFE standards will increase car price by $6k 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Ten months ago, Bob Lutz said GM cars would be $5,000 more expensive if the Bush administration got its way with fuel standards by raising fuel economy 4% every year through 2017. Bush didn't get his way, but Congress did with its newly-signed-into-law energy bill that requires automakers have a ...

GM: Hummer is the anti-Christ trying to plunge us into the abyss 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Dashing hopes Don Esmond will ever collect his $100, Toyota's research and development chief Kazuo Okamoto told Reuters "while we'd love to be first, we're determined to be best" when it comes to hybrids. As we wrote about recently, Irv Miller of U.S. group vice president for communications wrote ...

Farago dumps on GM fuel cell program 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Over at the Truth About Cars site today Robert Farago dumps all over Bob Lutz and General Motors over their emphasis on fuel cells. Farago takes issue with Lutz's efforts to direct even more development resources toward fuel cells. The article goes on to discuss how GM has lost much of its ...


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