Spokesman Jay Cooney told me GM is simply formalizing what had been an informal relationship since Lutz left the company last year.
Mitch Daniels, former Bush administration budget chief, told me GM and Chrysler would have been easier to turn around, and at much less cost to the taxpayer, if they'd gone through the traditional bankruptcy route, stripping them of their pension liabilities and debts.
The cynic in me thinks that GM was very leery of introducing the Volt in large numbers where it is cold.
At first blush, I did not like the sound of this as it made me wonder if GM is desperate and overplaying its hand.
What makes this outlook for the Connected Car even more interesting to me is that GM is working with Apple to bring Siri to the new infotainment systems in the Chevrolet Spark and Sonic.
But Jack Hollis, vice president of the Scion brand, told me he understands why GM reassessed its paid advertising on Facebook.
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Well, let me tell you, GM might have employed -- along with its dealers and everybody -- a hundred thousand, several hundred thousand.
"I think our GM, our coach and people above me will make that decision, " Thurman said.
"We struggle to see how yet another 'me-too' co-operation with GM Europe on componentry will help address any of the fundamental issues, " said Credit Suisse analyst Erich Hause.
Rob Peterson and Britta Gross of GM, both integral to the Volt program, dare me to guess when the car switches from battery-only to using the gas engine as a generator, and I totally miss it.
Pascal Deyrolle, GM of La Samanna, which opened in 1974, recently told me that his longtime guests exercise the same sort of vigilance.
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Let me be clear: The United States government has no interest in running GM.
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She took me on a tour of downtown Detroit, her adopted hometown on the way out to the old GM headquarters, now home (at least in part) to The College for Creative Studies, a design school.
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Now, with GM and Chrysler closing all of these dealerships in our area, it just makes it very -- harder for me to find a job now, because all those people who are going to be out of a job are now looking for the same job that I'm looking for.
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