No one would argue that the outspoken Lutz brings a wealth of experience to the role, built over the course of more than 40 years in the auto industry, including two stints at GM.
Ross Simonini, who interviewed Mr. Lutz at the event, had conducted an email interview with Mr. Lutz throughout the summer of 2006 but had only met him in person five minutes before their interview.
If you're launching a line of extended-range electric vehicles, ala the Chevy Volt, it's hard to imagine a better person to help you with the launch than Bob Lutz, the driving force behind that very car.
"We felt a little bit in awe when we went in there, " recalled Cunningham of the 1999 meeting at which he proposed the idea to Lutz.
"We felt a little bit in awe when we went in there, " said Cunningham of the meeting in 1999 when he proposed the idea to Lutz.
"But monetary policy was much more expansionary in the 1970s, " says Lutz Kilian, a stagflation expert at the University of Michigan.
GM's design chief at the time, Wayne Cherry, told Mr Lutz that he hated the results.
The lone decision to be made is whether Justin Turner (calf) lands on the DL to start the season, meaning Zach Lutz and Kirk Nieuwenhuis are still in limbo only one would make the team if Turner is able to play.
Lutz sees the recent success among American automakers as a rejuvination of the industry.
Now Robert A. Lutz, the former vice chairman of Chrysler, has started Cunningham Motor.
Deputies are ready to deal with any problems with the returned animals, Lutz said.
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Bob Lutz, the former GM vice chairman and old-school "car guy" who brought the struggling Volt to market.
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Lutz says the design specifications for the new suit system say it should be able to fit almost everyone.
Spokesman Jay Cooney told me GM is simply formalizing what had been an informal relationship since Lutz left the company last year.
Mets manager Terry Collins said Zach Lutz, the lone remaining third baseman on the 40-man roster, will start against the Atlanta Braves on Sunday.
"Our design goal would be to make the astronauts, when they're doing geology, look like a geologist on the surface of the Earth, " Lutz says.
College basketball's recent outbreak of splotchy eyes and drippy noses is a "new high mark of a changing culture, " says Tom Lutz, the author of "Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears, " even if some prefer other forms of catharsis.
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Bob Lutz, the legendary auto executive who worked for all of the Detroit Three said that when he was at Chrysler one reason his people wanted to buy American Motors (aside from its ownership of Jeep) was because it could teach Chrysler how to develop more vehicles with fewer resources.
Facing competition from BMW, Audi and Mercedes in the premium small-car market, Saab Chief Executive Peter Augustsson needed a new model and turned to another GM partner, Fuji Heavy Industries, maker of Subaru four-wheel-drive cars. (GMowns a 20% stake in Fuji.) After months of discussions, nudged along by Lutz, the collaboration resulted in the Saab 9-2X, a sporty, high-performance wagon based on the underpinnings of Subaru's Impreza compact and its high-performance cousin, the WRX.
Villarreal and Lutz have rescued the Karma from what I would like to call the tragic grenades.
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The Mets recalled infielder Zach Lutz from Buffalo to fill Bay's roster spot.
"They are very proud of Marvin's accomplishments as a pilot, " said Alan Burner, associate pastor at the First Baptist Church of Lutz.
For the glass wall overlooking the street, Ms. Lutz insisted on installing window coverings, strung on simple hospital-track metal fixtures, for privacy.
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Lutz, now the vice chairman of GM won't comment, but GM officials and others involved in the project say that Cunningham has it backwards.
Lutz says that the Grand Am scored the highest research numbers ever seen at the company: 60% of the participants picked the unbranded Grand Am as their first choice from a roomful of Japanese and European cars.
"It's the most exciting product I've been involved with, " beamed Lutz at a recent technology briefing on the vehicle.
In spite of an announcement before the Labor Day long weekend that the company was bringing back 79-year old consummate car design man Bob Lutz as a consultant, prospects will track the economy more than fashion.
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