Lutz Denies Ambivalence About The Volt and Introducing First Production Image Volt In Black

It may be recalled the Washington Post recently published an extensive piece about Bob Lutz and the Volt in which the vice chairman of GM and originator of the Volt concept was described as being “ambivalent” about the Chevy Volt. The story’s painted Lutz as a lover of loud shiny powerful gas guzzlers and that the greening of the auto industry that the Volt represents gave him mixed feelings.
Lutz has taken that author to task in his latest FastLane post. “Let me say this clearly: There is no ambivalence on my part - or on the part of anyone at GM - toward the Chevy Volt. None. Zero,” writes Lutz.
Lutz confirms the Volt program is “the most exciting program I have worked on in my entire career.”
“The Volt can literally change the face of automotive transportation as we know it,” he writes “Who would be ambivalent about that?”
Lutz goes on to say the advent of the Volt and other smaller cars that GM has in the pipeline does not mean the end of performance car. He likens their arrival to a grocery store that first begins to offer organic vegetables, “doesn’t mean it shuts down the meat counter.”
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inspirion7 - 6/9/2009 8:35:48 PM

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"The Washington post is an outspoken enemy of GM and prints nothing but hatred of the US auto industry."



1UAW you are very perspective.

veyron1001 - 6/9/2009 10:07:47 PM

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How can it succeed when GM is in debt of the govt and the neg profit. This car will not make profit for many years.

inspirion7 - 6/10/2009 9:14:16 AM

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veyron, news flash. The first generation Volt was not expected to make money. Period. With any first gen production of something this unique, it is expected that you get the product out on the market, then reduce cost later with spreading the tech through sharing with other brands or leasing tech to others. The Prius became profitable way after the first generation. When the Prius first arrived here, I remember a woman telling me that a salesman had to go to the back of the lot and dusted the car off for her. She purchased the car for next to nothing because no one knew what it was.

tango - 6/9/2009 10:36:04 PM

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Gorgeous lines. Black is a good colour for it. But I'll have mine in a dark green of some sort, I'm partial to British Racing Green, but bottle or forest works as well.

answer - 6/10/2009 11:08:49 AM

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Seems like GM just can't shake the habit of being 5 years late and 15% too costly with their models.

Black does look good though.