This quote was from the second day of the NAIAS for the press.

Here it is in black and white...

"Lutz was later asked if there was any hope of ressurecting the Camaro and Firebird. "Maybe after a 30-year nap," he said. We assume he meant for the car."

HAHAHAHA

I will guarantee you all here that I am as big of a GM fan as anyone, but if the guy wants to say things like that, then he has a lot to learn...

That quote was like a slap in the face.

Unless he is planning on pulling a rabbit out of his hat.

 

once again i hate GM and Bob Lutz

 

See the 2033 Camaro thread. Sarcasm me thinks. Me hopes.

 

.....this sounds like a guy who got his hand spanked for his earlier comments........and he REALLY wants you to ask about the new cars he can talk about..........haven't you said something off the cuff to divert attention away from a subject that could get you canned?

There ain't no way in H E L L that it'll be even 10 years, but more like less than 5..........

Ya'll need to relax a little...........

 

Bob Lutz get canned? Huh?

He's arguably one of the best things that has happened to GM in a good while. I don't see them getting rid of him for a while...


Regardless, it was a ignorant thing to say, and he needs to engage his brain before he opens his mouth.

 

As I stated in the above thread, I think Lutz used poor terminology.I am convinced that Camaro will be back, and soon.

As someone else mentioned, it is kind of a slap in the face for him to say things like that....
"After a 30 yr nap"......Ha Ha That's really funny.
It truly bothers me that a person in his position would downplay the importance of the Camaro and Firebird.These cars meant so much to so many and have a cult like following...
So yeah, after a 30 yr nap....Ha Friggin Ha

Okay, trying to calm down....
I'm sure it's all a smoke and mirrors.It still pi$$es me off though.

 

You know, some of you here are getting really sensitive (thought I was bad).

I think there's a full moon out tonight.

 

Or, instead of giving us the same old BS line we get from everyone else, he plays it off as if he's not even thinking about it, everyone will dismiss the Fbody and when it DOES come back in 2005+ you'll have even more shock. . .
Lutz if anyone is the guy telling people they'll be canned if they talk, he can't set a double standard for himself and expect everyone else not to do the same. And come on, he brought the GTO over and has planned more RWD cars then i've seen from GM in a long time, we've got grand ams & GPs getting V8s & rwd (grand am anyway) I wonder how lon ghte CTS & XLR have been on the board, but i'm sure Lutz helped those cars along as well.
He's the first guy to take a serious look at GM's Australian division for new sedans, obviously the malibu and regal/bon/etc arent cutting it like they used to.

 

He probably realizes that there is no pressing need for a Camaro economically speaking.

 

Sarcasm. They guy CAN NOT talk about the cars right now!!

 

While Lutz's comment doesn't really bother me, I do think he could have been a bit more considerate...

He's probably tired of being asked about something he can't comment on, and just snapped off or thought it was funny, even though it could have been taken as a kick to the groin...

 

Has anyone noticed that Lutz gets asked about the Camaro often?

Do you think that he gets the hint that alot of people are very interested in it?

I'd bet NO ONE has ever asked him about the new Tahoe.

 

Guess you have to look at it as a comparison...

If they discontinued the Tahoe, how many people would really care?

And of the 5-6 people that would actually be upset about it how many would be begging GM to bring it back?

If they don't destroy the image of the car and bring it back in 2-3 years think of how well it will sell. Many of us took our F-Bodies for granted, and because of the sales slowed... we'd get a new one, but for now our current ones were okay... now they're gone, we miss them already (only a few months into the 2003 model line)... I'm just hoping they don't go with the new fad of redesigning the car drastically and doing limited, overpriced production for the first few years of it's "rebirth".

 

 

I think Bob Lutz drives a mustang.