GM’s Lutz Already Making ‘Em Nuts

By Bill Visnic The ink wasn't yet dry on Bob Lutz's new contract with the newly constituted General Motors Co. to be vice chairman of, ah, just about everything and Lutz was back to the business of baiting the media and most likely making his peers and superiors (if he has any) slightly crazy. Exhibit 1: Lutz – whose job GM loosely and rather unnervingly describes as “vice chairman for all creative elements of products and customer relationships” – had Automobile magazine slurping out of his hand when he tossed out the remark that GM isn't going to let the rear-drive G8 sport sedan slip away with Pontiac when the division shuts down at the end of the year. The G8, Automobile breathlessly reported, will “live on” in the Chevrolet division as a new-age Caprice. “The last time we looked at (the G8), we decided that we would continue to import it as a Chevrolet,” Lutz told Automoblile . The problem: GM CEO Fritz Henderson was widely quoted last month, including here on AutoObserver,

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