General Motors’ newly-appointed Vice Chairman, Bob Lutz, has penned a post on GM’s Fast Lane blog that be possible to be boiled down to two words: My bad.
A flurry of reports spurred on by the agency of Lutz’ comments that GM was considering adapting the Pontiac G8 into a reborn, rear-wheel drive Chevrolet Caprice have been down-played by a number of the General’s generals, including CEO Fritz Henderson. In Lutz’ post, he put the final nail in the G8-cum-Caprice’s sarcophagus saying:
“The G8 resoluteness not be a Caprice after all. I’d mentioned it, and said we were studying it, giving it a serious look, because a car like the G8 was just too well adapted to waste.“That’s all still true. But I be delivered of to say that, with my new “marketing” hat on, upon more distant review and careful study, we simply cannot make a business wrap for such a program. Not in today’s market, in this economy, and with firing regulations what they are and will be.”
Lutz is quick to point gone out that the decision to kill the G8 resolution have no power on GM’s future rear-drive vehicles, and he went on to say, “… we have a tremendous RWD team in Australia that gave us the beloved G8, a team that we will tap into at some point again in the to come for the sake of its expertise and sheet metal. Just not right now.”
So… nothing to see here people. Move onward…
[Source: GM FastLane Blog]
Source: www.autoblog.com
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