{"id":387846,"date":"2010-03-04T08:50:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T13:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=52371"},"modified":"2010-03-04T08:50:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T13:50:21","slug":"bob-lutz%e2%80%99s-proudest-achievement-is-the-chevrolet-volt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/387846","title":{"rendered":"Bob Lutz\u2019s proudest achievement is the Chevrolet Volt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52372 aligncenter\" title=\"Bob Lutz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bob_lutz_chevrolet_volt_wide_main_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, General Motors confirmed that Vice Chairman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2010\/03\/03\/breaking-bob-lutz-to-retire-may-1\/\">Bob Lutz will officially retire on May 1<\/a>. Why does Bob Lutz want to retire?<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Lutz said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cI can confidently say that the job I came here to do more than nine years ago is now complete \u2013 the team I have been fortunate to lead has far exceeded my expectations,\u201d Lutz said. \u201cOur product lineup is as strong as it has been in GM\u2019s history. The perception of our products and brands is beginning to catch up with reality.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When asked by <em>Automotive News<\/em> which project he&#8217;s most proud of, Bob Lutz said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cIf you want to point to an individual project that I am particularly proud to have been a leading advocate of &#8212; if not the originator &#8212; that would be the Chevy Volt. At the time when electric anything was a dirty word at General Motors after the EV1 financial disaster, the Volt was hard to get going and hard to get approved.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/tag\/chevrolet-volt\/\"><strong>Click here for more news on the Chevrolet Volt<\/strong><\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2011 Chevrolet Volt<\/strong>:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/2011_chevrolet_volt_press2_image_011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2011 Chevrolet Volt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/2011_chevrolet_volt_press2_image_011-128x84.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/2011_chevrolet_volt_press2_image_006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2011 Chevrolet Volt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/2011_chevrolet_volt_press2_image_006-128x84.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/2011_chevrolet_volt_press2_image_002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2011 Chevrolet Volt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/2011_chevrolet_volt_press2_image_002-128x84.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2011_chevrolet_volt_images_004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2011 Chevrolet Volt Production Show Car\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2011_chevrolet_volt_images_004-128x84.jpg\" alt=\"2011 Chevrolet Volt Production Show Car\" width=\"128\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-52371\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fegmcartech%2Fsets%2F72157607322374084%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fegmcartech%2Fsets%2F72157607322374084%2F&amp;set_id=72157607322374084&amp;jump_to=\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=71649\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=71649\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fegmcartech%2Fsets%2F72157607322374084%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fegmcartech%2Fsets%2F72157607322374084%2F&amp;set_id=72157607322374084&amp;jump_to=\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; By: Kap Shah<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100303\/OEM02\/100309938\/1263#ixzz0hDPA8VxY\">Automotive News<\/a> (Subscription Required)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3Miy4r3SHjxZK94MyCzb0TgSUrg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3Miy4r3SHjxZK94MyCzb0TgSUrg\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3Miy4r3SHjxZK94MyCzb0TgSUrg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3Miy4r3SHjxZK94MyCzb0TgSUrg\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=RjHuBt8kvyE:un9CYKp_ZeI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=RjHuBt8kvyE:un9CYKp_ZeI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=RjHuBt8kvyE:un9CYKp_ZeI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=RjHuBt8kvyE:un9CYKp_ZeI:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=RjHuBt8kvyE:un9CYKp_ZeI:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=RjHuBt8kvyE:un9CYKp_ZeI:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=RjHuBt8kvyE:un9CYKp_ZeI:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, General Motors confirmed that Vice Chairman Bob Lutz will officially retire on May 1. Why does Bob Lutz want to retire? In a statement, Lutz said: \u201cI can confidently say that the job I came here to do more than nine years ago is now complete \u2013 the team I have been fortunate to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}