Does This Video Prove Auto Spies Agent 001 Should Have Bob Lutz's Job?

I can see it now.

Hannity and 001 - coming January 1, 2009.

Live on my favorite News channel - Fox News.

:-\

Bob Lutz would fix the Autospies home page to stop the stories bouncing up and down in the column because of the top story box. It's annoying. You go to click an article and it jumps up or down the page and you click on a different story.

Fix it 001 and put spell check in for 009.

LOL!!!

The 001 Factor!

001

001aBee!

001

Some words of wisdom 001! Chev is now making an efficient Cobalt equivalent to the Civic's fuel mileage in there UFE version, although not as safe as the Civic! No where close! Honda is still number one in safety and economy for small cars. I would like to see Agent001 in charge of Chev instead of Luts, he has almost sunk chev with his bad moves!

Lutz isn't in charge of GM.

Stevenv1999,

You are right. Bob Lutz is not the head of GM. Rick Wagoner is the CEO. (Wagoner is a native of Richmond, Virginia. He is almost exactly my age and attended a high school about 2 miles away from mine. But I digress.)

That said, Wagoner is the "money man" (finance, accounting) at GM, while Lutz is the "car man" (engineering, design, product planning) extraordinaire. Lutz has been at GM for only a few years, but he has also worked at Ford and Chrysler for many years. His reputation in the industry is mythic. The only other product-oriented auto executive of similar stature in modern times would be Ferdinand Piech at Porsche/Volkswagen/Audi.

Before any other bloggers eviscerate me for not including Lee Iacocca in this select company, let me remind you that Iacocca is retired while the other guys are still active.

Iacocca deserves credit for developing the Mustang while at Ford and the modern minivan while at Chrysler. However, his forte was primarily marketing and sales, while Lutz and Piech are more product-and-engineering-oriented.

Nothing like some good 'ole 3rd person commentary.

Give yourself a promotion, 001 !

If you removed a couple of your ribs, I'm sure you could actually toot your own horn.

They only thing i hate is that my countries' economy is going down the toilet because incompetent executives can't think their way out of a paper bag.

001

And if you think a Cobalt or an Aveo is an answer to a Civic, you've drank the Kool-Aid yourself.

001

Just because you HAVE a small car doesn't mean it will sell.

It has to be a GOOD small car.

And the strategy that you can fix everything with marketing and advertising is flawed in today's society.

And I'm not implying that Lutz is bad here, i like him a lot and I wish GM and the others had more guys like him.

BUT, he isn't in charge and has to pump what they got whether he likes it or not.

And a guy with HIS knowledge KNOWS the Aveo and Cobalt aren't Civic killers.

001

i always find it hilarious when people that know nothing about cars, think GM is the only one making gas guzzlers lol. Perception has to be one of the US Auto makers worst enemies, talk to any random person about them and you would swear everything has a V8 and gets 14mpg

I agree 100%, which sometimes the random person owns a Prius.....

Yawn, nice foresight captain obvious.