Bob LutzLETTERS TO THE EDITOR A special award to Bob Lutz 12:01 am U.S. ET | June 17, 2013 It's so nice that we have Bob Lutz around to psychoanalyze our industry's leaders.... Read More »
RICHARD JOHNSON Lutz admires entrepreneurs, couldn't be one 12:01 am U.S. ET | June 17, 2013  Bob Lutz says nice things about Rick Wagoner in his new book, Icons and Idiots, but faults his former boss at General Motors for coddling "useless" executives. Lutz got sideways with a few bosses in his time and never made CEO. Should he have been an entrepreneur instead of a corporate high-flyer?... Read More »
Battery maker Exide files for bankruptcy 12:01 am U.S. ET | June 17, 2013  Time ran out last week for Exide Technologies, the 125-year-old battery maker once led by longtime auto industry executive Bob Lutz. With its Vernon, Calif., lead-recycling plant shut down since April by California environmental regulators and unable to restructure quickly enough, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.... Read More »
Lutz on Wagoner: Smart, didn't make tough callsJune 14, 2013 06:01 CET  Bob Lutz and Rick Wagoner were cut from different management cloth, according to Lutz in his new book, ICONS AND IDIOTS: Straight Talk on Leadership. Lutz, as General Motors vice chairman, relied heavily on his instincts, while Wagoner, as GM CEO, was deeply data driven. The two executives didn't always see eye to eye, but they did get along.... Read More »
Lutz on Wagoner: Smart, didn't make tough calls 12:01 am U.S. ET | June 10, 2013  Bob Lutz and Rick Wagoner were cut from different management cloth, according to Lutz in his new book, ICONS AND IDIOTS: Straight Talk on Leadership. Lutz, as General Motors vice chairman, relied heavily on his instincts, while Wagoner, as GM CEO, was deeply data driven. The two executives didn't always see eye to eye, but they did get along.... Read More »
Battery maker Exide files bankruptcy after California officials shut plant 2:26 pm U.S. ET | June 10, 2013 Exide Technologies, the 125-year-old battery maker, filed for bankruptcy after California environmental regulators shut down one of the company's lead-recycling plants.... Read More »
NICK BUNKLEY Lutz: GM nice-guy Wagoner fell victim to bad timing, bad luck 1:45 pm U.S. ET | June 4, 2013  Bob Lutz put a chapter about his old boss, Rick Wagoner, in his new book, which has the word "idiots" in the title. But Wagoner is no idiot, Lutz writes. He was just too passive, too data-focused and "too nice" to lead General Motors through the toughest period in its history.... Read More »
Lutz touts, then bids on, Fisker 12:01 am U.S. ET | May 27, 2013 Bob Lutz, the former product chief at General Motors, has seen a lot of four-door sedans in his 81 years. So people took note when Lutz rhapsodized about the Fisker Karma in an April 26 blog on Forbes.com.... Read More »
Henrik Fisker joins Hong Kong tycoon on Fisker bid, report saysMay 24, 2013 16:59 CET  Henrik Fisker is working with an investor group to salvage Fisker Automotive, the plug-in hybrid automaker he co-founded nearly six years ago that is now struggling to stave off bankruptcy, people familiar with the matter told Reuters this week.... Read More »
Henrik Fisker joins Hong Kong tycoon on Fisker bid, report says 10:59 am U.S. ET | May 24, 2013  Henrik Fisker is working with an investor group to salvage Fisker Automotive, the plug-in hybrid automaker he co-founded nearly six years ago that is now struggling to stave off bankruptcy, people familiar with the matter told Reuters this week.... Read More »
Lutz's VL Automotive, Chinese supplier bid for Fisker, report saysMay 22, 2013 06:01 CET  A boutique carmaker led by a former GM executive Bob Lutz and China's largest auto parts supplier submitted an offer to buy cash-strapped automaker Fisker Automotive, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.... Read More »
Lutz's VL Automotive, Chinese supplier bid $20 million for Fisker, report says 2:02 pm U.S. ET | May 21, 2013  A boutique carmaker led by a former GM executive Bob Lutz and China's largest auto parts supplier submitted an offer of $20 million to buy cash-strapped automaker Fisker Automotive, people familiar with the matter told Reuters today.... Read More »
FINAL ASSEMBLY In Lutz's view, Eaton did a bang-up job at Chrysler 12:01 am U.S. ET | May 6, 2013  Former Chrysler CEO Bob Eaton is commonly said to have finished his career in disgrace. But in his new book, Icons and Idiots: Straight Talk on Leadership, former Chrysler and General Motors exec Bob Lutz leaves Eaton out of the "idiot" category.... Read More »
THE LAST QUARTER CENTURY -- THE PETEY AWARDS As retirement approaches, Publisher Peter Brown honors some of the best, and worst, automotive adventurers 12:01 am U.S. ET | April 22, 2013  In his 25th year as editor or editorial director of Automotive News, Peter Brown says he can now state with conviction that in the automotive industry, about every three years, everything you know is wrong. As he nears the end of his tenure, he revives his periodic Petey Awards citations for achievement, failure or significance.... Read More »
FINAL ASSEMBLY Lutz: Watch for CAFE hybrid games 12:01 am U.S. ET | April 22, 2013  Speaking at the SAE World Congress in Detroit last week, Bob Lutz told an audience of automotive engineers that plug-in hybrid powertrains, like the one in the Chevrolet Volt, will be crucial to the survival of high-performance cars.... Read More »
Lutz, 3 other former Chrysler execs lose pension appeal 4:15 pm U.S. ET | March 13, 2013  A federal judge has rejected an appeal by four former Chrysler executives, including Bob Lutz, over the automaker’s decision to reduce retired executives’ pension benefits as part of its 2009 restructuring plan, said Mayer Morganroth, the lawyer for the plaintiffs.... Read More »
NICK BUNKLEY Whitacre-as-savior concept gets the Lutz lash 11:58 am U.S. ET | March 6, 2013  So Ed Whitacre thinks he saved General Motors. Bob Lutz thinks that claim is a total crock of (rhymes with part of “Whitacre”).... Read More »
NORTH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW Lutz, GM end consulting deal 12:01 am U.S. ET | Jan. 21, 2013  General Motors has parted ways with former product boss Bob Lutz, 80, who had been a paid part-time consultant for GM since September 2011.... Read More »
Lutz, GM end consulting pact 2:50 pm U.S. ET | Jan. 15, 2013  Bob Lutz's 15-month stint as a paid consultant for GM has come to an end, the former GM product czar said today.... Read More »
NICK BUNKLEY Why Day 1 of the show was just a bit odd 6:11 pm U.S. ET | Jan. 14, 2013  Day 1 of the Detroit auto show had its share of odd, confusing and sometimes cringe-worthy moments.... Read More »
NICK BUNKLEY Chevy keeps things short and simple... for a change 10:32 am U.S. ET | Jan. 14, 2013  Most carmakers unveiling new models at the Detroit auto show use up their allotted 25 minutes of time, and then some. Chevrolet, having already held a huge off-site reveal for the 2014 Corvette Stingray the previous night, apparently decided it had little else to say Monday.... Read More »
JAMES B. TREECE Old and new GM parties like it's .... 10:30 pm U.S. ET | Jan. 13, 2013  A car as significant as a redesigned Chevrolet Corvette is cause for a party for General Motors.... Read More »
JAMES B. TREECE Corvettes that might have been 10:30 pm U.S. ET | Jan. 13, 2013  It's a fair bet that every designer at General Motors wants to work on the iconic Chevrolet Corvette.... Read More »
2012: THE YEAR IN PHOTOS Names & faces 12:01 am U.S. ET | Dec. 24, 2012 Here's a look at some of the people who made news this year.... Read More »
Lutz joins NanoSteel board, latest in long list of posts 12:01 am U.S. ET | Oct. 15, 2012 Life has hardly slowed for Bob Lutz, the 80-year-old retired vice chairman of General Motors. Last week, Lutz joined the board of NanoSteel, a steel materials design company in which GM has invested.... Read More »
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