Bob Lutz Quotes (33 Quotes)

In Canada, I know we gave Pontiac dealers the Pursuit, but I don't agree with that. Pontiac is supposed to be above Chevrolet, and then Buick is supposed to be just under Cadillac.

There's enormous good will for the glory days of American cars, when they really were American and didn't try to be Japanese or German. We all recently discovered that was a gold mine we had left fallow for a couple decades.

We do not share that opinion.

There's a lot of talk about their quarterback and he's a good one, but they have a lot of good skilled players who can run. They're not a one-man show. They spread the field and make you cover them.

From a strict business proposition, this is not where we would make an investment, ... It's not clear that you'll ever be able to recapture the cost of a hybrid in the pricing. But what we forgot in the equation was the emotional aspect of it.

All of those things are gradually coming true, so I'm cautiously optimistic about the way the business is developing in the United States.

We want to turn around Pontiac. As for Buick, it is unthinkable we would do anything there, given its importance in China, where we sold more Buicks than in the U.S.

Design is the great differentiator. In our company, there was a time - not so long ago - when we thought design didn't matter very much. We had a sensible' mentality. We produced vehicles to be practical and serve real-life needs.

They're explosive. You can have them bottled up for five or six plays and think you've got their number and then they hit a big play and are standing in the end zone. They've got a heck of a lot of speed.

While I was at Chrysler, he has never expressed an interest in looking at the cars,

Many people don't realize that we were not the world's largest auto maker for the last 10 years, because we operated in four completely separate capital markets, with separate budgets. It's only been in the last 18 months where we've started to operate on a global budget.

Winters is a big back. If you get too focused on the passing game, he bolts right up the shoot on you and he's off to the races. They have a lot of weapons and a lot of speed.

Any time you play a good opponent in your opener it's good to get out with a win. Obviously, we've got a lot of things to work on. But the defense made some big plays. With (John) Pemberton, (Michael) Phillips and (Brandon) Walker inside, we're pretty good.

The choice is no longer between keeping the same job or keeping the same job at a lower wage, ... The choice is now keeping the same job at less compensation or having no jobs at all in this country.

They've got a nice middle linebacker (Justin Thacker) and a good secondary. They run to the ball pretty well.

There's no denying I believe GM's business in Europe is in the process of improving quite quickly.

Most business don't want to have a single-point backup.

We're all impatient. The sense of urgency is there. If you took our legacy-costs penalty out, we would be a nicely profitable car company.

I'm happy about the weather, ... I'm happy about the turnout. I'm happy to see so many old friends and new faces as well.

This business is finally all about making money. And buying market share with incentives to get an unsustainable share is just not a good strategy.

Cuts will be made from investment, material and manufacturing expenses, according to the vice chairman. Lutz also alluded to further changes in its engineering operations, citing healthcare spending and Delphis bankruptcy as a challenge to maintaining engineering operations in the U.S. If economic conditions are such that it becomes economically unfeasible to produce vehicles inside the United States as opposed to importing them from somewhere else, youd be foolish to keep building, ... We dont make that decision. The overall economic environment makes that decision.

The Chinese are technologically among the most capable people in the world. There is no doubt in my mind that in another five to ten years China will have a massive and capable automobile industry and will export.

then we would have to take a look at a phase-out. I hope we wouldn't have to do that. What we've got to do is keep the brands we've got.

Adams is a pretty good back. He adds a lot to their offense. It hurt them when he went out last week.

The biggest things for us is to improve over last week. We made way too many mistakes and missed too many assignments. Hopefully getting a game under their belts will help us this week.

I think the Cadillac should be set to classical music.

In five or six years, China will have a very competitive industry. In 10 years the Chinese will be a very formidable competitor.

It's a pretty good defensive team. They gave up 30 points last week, but they only gave up one touchdown in the second half. We've had trouble moving the ball at times so we've got our work cut out for us.

We're a long way from being a good team. We have a lot of holes. We need to be better conditioned. We have some work to do in the secondary.

But we are paying the penalty for being a 98-year-old company.

They threw down the middle several times deep. We didn't cover them. We played a three-deep zone, but we didn't cover them.

The American industry has stopped considering them as commodity vehicles, ... That's a defeatist strategy. You've got to do your best in every segment you're in.

There's a powerful sense of reality to our concepts, ... These are vehicles we think people would purchase and drive today.