Bob Lutz

Lutz's VL Automotive, Chinese supplier bid for Fisker, report says

May 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 »

 

Lutz joins board of steel materials supplier

12:17 pm U.S. ET | Oct. 10, 2012
Former GM Vice Chairman Robert Lutz has joined the board of a private steel materials design company in which the U.S. automaker has invested. NanoSteel has created a technology for the manufacture of a new class of high-strength steel that it hopes to eventually license to steelmakers for use in the auto industry.... Read More »

 

EDWARD LAPHAM

The new Lutz? Not me, says Marchionne

12:01 am U.S. ET | Sept. 3, 2012
There has been some talk around Chrysler that its CEO has an eye for design details and likes to get involved in the vehicle design process -- even occasionally suggesting changes -- the same way Bob Lutz did Edward Lapham is executive editor of Automotive News.... Read More »

 

GM seen planning global reorganization to tackle 'fiefdoms'

Aug. 17, 2012 10:34 CET
GM CEO Dan Akerson is planning a reorganization of the automaker that would move it away from long-entrenched regional authority toward a structure built on global functions, said two people familiar with the planning.... Read More »

 

Nissan says Ghosn may retire before start of next business plan

11:19 am U.S. ET | June 21, 2012
Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn is considering stepping down before the company's next mid-term business plan begins in about five years. Ghosn, 58, doesn't plan to commit to Nissan's next mid-term plan and investor-relations officials at the company have been telling investors and analysts this year that there is a succession plan in place, spokesman Koji Okuda said.... Read More »

 

FINAL ASSEMBLY

Ex-basher Lutz does a flip-flop on Romney: 'All is forgiven'

12:01 am U.S. ET | June 18, 2012
So does the federal bailout of General Motors and Chrysler ensure that Barack Obama will carry Michigan in November? Well, at least one high-profile Michigan auto guy -- who vociferously blasted Mitt Romney for opposing the bailout -- has made peace with the presumed GOP nominee.... Read More »

 

Lutz supports Romney despite opposition to GM bailout

1:53 pm U.S. ET | June 14, 2012
Even though Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney opposed the government bailout of General Motors, he still has won the support of one of the automaker's former top executives.... Read More »