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• Tweets on Cars: Just finished talking to...

  —Karl on Cars

  Just finished talking to Bob Lutz about everything from electric cars to Chrysler's chance of success. He remains the quintessential car guy [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:12pm EST
  

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• GM's CEO may fill Opel power vacuum with Lutz

  —Automotive News - China automotive sales and production, suppliers and OEM in Chinese market, China's homegrown players and their expansions overseas.

  General Motors Co. Chief Executive Fritz Henderson is scrambling to fill a “power vacuum” at its Opel division with a temporary manager, Handelsblatt reported. Henderson is considering appointing Bob Lutz, currently vice chairman at GM, or David Reilly, who previously led the U.K. [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 4:07pm EST
  

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• SWITZERLAND: GM to stick with 30% cost reduction for Opel - report

  —Daily automotive news and comment

  GM will reportedly stick to a plan to cut costs at Opel by 30%, according to remarks made by Bob Lutz reported in a Swiss newspaper. [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:57am EST
  

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• Jay Leno And Csaba Csere Roast Bob Lutz

  —The Truth About Cars

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  Jay Leno wasn’t present for the roast of Bob Lutz, but he did check in via video with a few jokes about Bob’s age. Luckily, former Car and Driver editor Csaba Csere decided to mine a richer vein of humor, digging into Lutz for his Merkur branding debacle and his [...]

  Posted: November 08, 2009, 2:22pm EST
  by Edward Niedermeyer

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• Fritz Henderson Roasts Bob Lutz

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  The evening before Bob Lutz was named Chairman of Opel, he was roasted at an Arthritis Foundation benefit at the Ritz-Carlton in Dearborn. The lead-off hitter was none other than Lutz’s boss, Fritz Henderson, and the inherent awkwardness of a boss roasting his far more charismatic employee made Fritz’s jabs [...]

  Posted: November 08, 2009, 1:46pm EST
  by Edward Niedermeyer

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• Opel CEO Calls It Quits, Rolls-Royce Hybrid: Today's Car News

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  It's official. The boss of Opel, Carl-Peter Forster, will be leaving his role as head of the European operation and will advise the company during the transition to find a new CEO. Who will that be? Rumor has it, none other than GM's own Bob Lutz. [Motor Authority] You [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:23am EST
  

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• Lutz To Chair Opel Supervisory Board [Industry News]

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  Bob Lutz is rewarded for besting us with chairmanship of Opel's board. [AutoNews] [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:45pm EST
  by Matt Hardigree

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• Breaking: Bob Lutz To Be New Chairman of Opel

  —The Truth About Cars

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  Spiegel Online reports that Bob Lutz will be named Chairman, and head of the Supervisory Board of Opel. Carl-Peter Forster, who threw in his hat with the Magna buy-out, resigned on the news that GM intends to keep Opel. Forster, the first German to head Opel in decades, was seen [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:13pm EST
  by Paul Niedermeyer

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• Bailout Watch 564: TN Senator Corker Calls GMAC A “Zombie”

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  I was most gratified when the MSM adopted my nickname for then-GM Car Czar Bob Lutz, recognizing the crock of shit guy as Maximum Bob. (While they missed the irony, that only made it more delicious.) I’m now pleased to report (for my own selfish, ego-maniacal reasons) that the term [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2009, 9:53am EDT
  by Robert Farago

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