It may be recalled the Washington Post recently published an extensive piece about Bob Lutz and the Volt in which the vice chairman of GM and originator of the Volt concept was described as being “ambivalent” about the Chevy Volt. The story’s painted Lutz as a lover of loud shiny powerful gas guzzlers and that the greening of the auto industry that the Volt represents gave him mixed feelings.
Lutz has taken that author to task in his latest FastLane post. “Let me say this clearly: There is no ambivalence on my part - or on the part of anyone at GM - toward the Chevy Volt. None. Zero,” writes Lutz.
Lutz confirms the Volt program is “the most exciting program I have worked on in my entire career.”
“The Volt can literally change the face of automotive transportation as we know it,” he writes “Who would be ambivalent about that?”
Lutz goes on to say the advent of the Volt and other smaller cars that GM has in the pipeline does not mean the end of performance car. He likens their arrival to a grocery store that first begins to offer organic vegetables, “doesn’t mean it shuts down the meat counter.”
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