Bob Lutz says the future of the automobile can be summed up in two words: Proportion and propulsion. That’s a snappy way of saying big cars aren’t going anywhere, but at least they’ll be electric.
The way Lutz sees it, Americans won’t give up their pickup trucks and SUVs until they’re shelling out more than 10 bucks a gallon to fill them. Yes, rising fuel prices and explosive growth in India and China mean General Motors must “compete aggressively in the brave new small-car world,” GM’s chief rabble-rouser says in a Newsweek column. But Detroit will keep cranking out land yachts because people not only want them, he says, they For more click here.need them.
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Way to go LUTZ! You keep spending money on Washington lobbyists instead of creating efficient trucks and SUV’s that will sell, grow user base and pull GM out of the hole… Nah, let’s wait until gasoline is $10/gal and just file for chapter 10 instead.