Bob Lutz
Bob Lutz
Swiss American automotive executive who has worked in high-level positions at GM, BMW, Ford, and Chrysler during his five decade career. He starred as in himself in the 2011 documentary, Revenge of the Electric Car.
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth12 February 1932
tired lost-ones shoes
Why did I lose? No reason, though you might like to know that I got tired, my ears started popping, the rubber came off my shoes, I got cramp, and I lost one of my contact lenses. Other than that I was in great shape.
hate house female
What do you want in a female companion? What is the first thing that attracts you. Her ability to cook and keep house or is it the way she looks? It's not politically correct, GM hates it when I draw that analogy. But it's absolutely correct."
tough
That was a tough one for them to lose.
caused happened manifest rethink success
I think what happened was the manifest success of the Prius caused a rethink on everybody's part,
brand general profitable
Hummer is a very profitable brand for General Motors, very profitable.
brands hope
then we would have to take a look at a phase-out. I hope we wouldn't have to do that. What we've got to do is keep the brands we've got.
belts biggest game help hopefully improve last missed mistakes
The biggest things for us is to improve over last week. We made way too many mistakes and missed too many assignments. Hopefully getting a game under their belts will help us this week.
darned good
He's a pretty darned good quarterback. He's a good one.
faces happy
I'm happy about the weather, ... I'm happy about the turnout. I'm happy to see so many old friends and new faces as well.
cadillac classical
I think the Cadillac should be set to classical music.
design kirk
Kirk Kerkorian has not been through the design dome,
business coming developing gradually optimistic united
All of those things are gradually coming true, so I'm cautiously optimistic about the way the business is developing in the United States.
couple days discovered enormous fallow glory gold good japanese left mine recently
There's enormous good will for the glory days of American cars, when they really were American and didn't try to be Japanese or German. We all recently discovered that was a gold mine we had left fallow for a couple decades.
few months system
For us to go out with a half-baked system just to get a few months out, I don't think would be prudent.