D*mn Branden and I both got .

 

Welburn took over Cherry's position. You all suck.

 

At least I was man enough to own up to it.

 

Charlie & IREngineer beat me to my reply.

Slackass indeed!

 

I think I was right...

Ahh....I read it wrong....I thought he was saying Welburn should be bought from retirement.

 

I hereby nominate Scott Settlemire to eventually replace Bob Lutz

 

To be honest, I don't think he'd take it if it was given to him.

Another thing to consider is that Bob Lutz is a car guy. Rick Wagoner wanted a Cadillac coupe years ago. Instead, they had to set aside their desires, and focus on building better Cavaliers (Cobalts), SUVs, trucks, taming and then cutting back bureaucracy, co-ordinating the various GM worldwide units, fighting offf investors wanting immediate returns & Wall Street cutting their rating to Junk status, and that's just scratching the surface.

Bob Lutz barely has time to go to the bathroom, and that doesn't include the time he was moonlighting as CEO of GM Europe while still running GM's worldwide product development.

I don't think anyone (Scott included) would give up the fun of actually creating cars in exchange for Bob's job.

 

Very good points Guy. Someone will want the star status though. I could maybe see Nesbitt doing it one day, but it's a little early. That leaved either an outside person or Welburn. God forbid a bean counter-type end up in the position...

 

Dave Hill retired sometime around December if I'm not mistaken.

 

Scott is the face of Camaro on the internet...so people sometimes assume he is a GM demigod or whatnot. His actual title is pretty high in GM...but when you look at his age, and where he is on the GM ladder....he is not really in striking distance of Chevy GM (where I think he would be perfect), or running the company. I am not being disrespectful either....Scott will be the first to say what I said. Plus I think Scott has a bit of fun where he is.

 

Get Jon Moss out of retirement, but he is getting up there too. Jon Moss is to the B-Body Impala SS, as Scott is to the F-Bodies.... or a should say was.

 

Hell, as long as we're bringing back people, I nominate John DeLorean!

 

You would have to bring him back from the dead.

 

Exactamundo. My point being that if you are going to try to drag people out of retirement, it would be only a bit more difficult to drag them out of their grave.

 

He's 74?! Dang. I thought at most he was like high 50's or low 60's..