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sw @ Mar 14th 2008 3:17PM
My god, his handlers must be ashamed.
There's no global warming.
The volt is just around the corner.
Bob Lutz seems to be to senior management what George Bush is to presidents. They're both loudmouths that don't listen to their own experts.
But to be fair to Bob, he did breathe some life into GM, but he's not so far along the path of recovery to be criticizing other companies who have full hybrids (not mild hybrids) who have a product that I can buy from their dealerships
Jay @ Mar 14th 2008 3:21PM
GM has a bunch of full hybrids, and before they ever built a hybrid car they put thousands of full hybrid buses on the streets.
sw @ Mar 14th 2008 3:28PM
Well, if you want to take other types of vehicles into consideration then it'd be the manufacturers who made train engines that'd be the first, and then briggs and stratton had a working hybrid prototype many many moons ago.
To sum up my point, you can't really compare a bus to a car any more than you can compare a bus to a train.
I commend GM's efforts, and it is good that they're now starting to build vehicles people actually want to buy and after some dormancy pushing the envelope when it comes to technology. but I do think that if Bob had the composure and public speaking personality of Alan Mulally or Katsuaki Watanabe he wouldn't have his foot permanently wedged in his mouth.
AMcA @ Mar 15th 2008 2:51AM
So who ought to be running GM?
Carl Pope?
Ralph Nader?
I'll stick with Maximum Bob, even if h ruffles a few feathers now and then.