New GM Stuff
I dont know if anyone has heard, but GM has now came out of Chap 11 court as General Motors Company, no longer General Motors Corperation.
GM Co is made up of Chevy, Caddy, Buick and GMC
It has a brand new board of directors headed up by former CEO of AT&T. The CEO and President is Fritz Henderson.
Bob Lutz, who was going to retire at year end, has been pulled out and given even more power.
Lutz now has total control of not only product development, he is now in charge of marketing and communication. I have read up that GM's marketing is actually more in control of what cars come equiped with then R&D do.
Example would be that the reason the Malibu doesnt have Navi is because Marketing doesnt think it needs it, not becaues they couldnt design for it.
Lutz now has total control over all angles of product development, marketing and how it gets to yoru eyes and ears.
Lutz just said that the G8 will continue here in the US as the Chevy Caprice. He also said that when he took the Auto Task Force around GM's development studios, the ATF fapped all over the CTS-V Coupe and that GM is tossing the idea around of a CTS-V Wagon.
It also looks like Lutz does not like the idea of an LSA powerd Camaro Z28. Thats good news. Z28 isnt dead, but its surely getting the true attention it needs to make it a true Z28.
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2/20/2013: They Day the ****s Stopped
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