What is the future of General Motors?
That question was addressed by a recent lengthy article in the Washington Post. In an interview with Bob Lutz, the CEO of GM who was fired by Obama, Luze responds:
(Keep in mind that Bob Lutz is the "car guy" who loves his Corvette and brought back the hi-pro Camaro.)

Here is an excerpt from that article:

The Conflict Within

Lutz is of two minds when talking about the auto industry's evolution. The executive in him trumpets the Volt as a key to the company's future. The romantic in him wishes the government, the media and the critics would leave the big, powerful cars alone. He is already mourning what he sees as an inevitability: the slow, painful death of the dazzling machines.

"In time, the government is going to legislate out of existence cars like the Camaro, the Corvette, the Cadillac CTS -- all these acclaimed vehicles that have lately gotten rave reviews from the automotive press around the world," he predicts. "So, ultimately, we are driven by legislation into the kind of excitement provided by the Volt."

He says this without a scintilla of sarcasm. At his core, as he frequently tells people, he is a car guy, drawn to the technological challenge the Volt presents, fascinated by the potential of batteries, understanding that whoever prevails in the electric-vehicle competition may be immortalized along with his car. It is just that he cannot shake his conviction that, in the name of change, Americans are being asked to give up something that defines them and their culture, a beauty and roar to which no monetary value can be attached. Few things in his existence give him more pleasure than driving his Corvette for the hour it takes him to get to his home in Ann Arbor.

He smiles while talking about the 2010 Camaro, the car still sitting at that moment in the GM airport gift shop. "Given the tough economic times and the high priority of fuel economy, we were almost wishing we hadn't done the Camaro," he says. "We looked at it as something radically mistimed." But he says the high number of advance orders for the car has justified his skepticism about just how deep the public's love for green cars will ever be. "When you get out into the marketplace, it's probably just 5 percent of the public that desperately wants something environmentally sound and is willing to pay a premium for it," he says. "I would say the East and West Coast intellectual establishment kind of lives in its own world. When you get to the broad American marketplace, excitement is still kind of defined in the way it used to be."
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