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CAR Magazine reports:

"General Motors' 78-year-old product chief Bob Lutz (insert 'car tsar', 'car guy', 'Maximum Bob' cliché here) announced his retirement shortly after the 2010 Geneva motor show. CAR Online caught up with Maximum Bob to hear of his thoughts on the new GM, future products and exactly what happened behind the scenes during GM's collapse into Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

CAR: GM's been on quite a journey over the past 18 months. How has the mindset changed?

Bob Lutz: 'We've had a lot of change and cycled through Rick Wagoner to Fritz Henderson to Ed Whitacre as CEO. It's been a very rapid transition. The main difference is that General Motors used to be a very procedural company. It believed very deeply in processes and decisions moved from one committee to another. Whitacre keeps asking: "Why do we have to discuss this three times? Why can't we decide this at one meeting?" And he doesn't like every decision going to the board..."









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