Steve’s Visit with Fritz Henderson and Bob Lutz
Posted by Steve | Posted in Random Thoughts | Posted on 10-11-2009
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A lot of people contact me every day. Most get a casual reply, as it’s hard to spend a lot of time responding when I’ve always got 15 things to do and 40 emails to blast out. August 4, 2009 was an exception, I received a message on GMTruckClub.com with the title “INVITATION: GM Product Technology Event – August 10, 2009”. Huh, you don’t see that every day.
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| This is an invitation for you to join us as our guest in Southeast Michigan for a one-day program August 10.” |
It took me about 10 seconds to think through it – will I be there? Yes. Yes, I will.
Meeting Fritz Henderson at the “GM Customer Event”
I chatted with Bob Lutz for a minute (again, before he was taken aside by Mr. Rudeness himself from Bloomberg) mostly about global warming actually, funny how hard it was to side-step that. I got in line and chatted with Fritz Henderson for a good five minutes about the future of trucks in GM.
I was trying to chat with Bob Lutz when this guy from Bloomberg pulled him away.
Basically, things aren’t going to change much for style, but the technology will improve, hybrids are here to stay for trucks and SUVs and they are still a very important part in the recovery of GM. The Silverado/Sierra was in fact the best selling single vehicle in the US for 2008 and there is a shot that it will be up there again for 2009 (we’ll see). I just had a great chat and of course I had to take the handshake photo.
Me and Fritz Henderson – talking Trucks and the future of different technologies.
2010 Corvette LS3 – Still fun to drive, just didn’t have the few extras that the Grand Sport had. Still did 0 to 60 in 4 seconds as it’s the same engine really. This one was red, the GS was yellow. Man it just roars when you get on it.
Driving the 2010 Corvette with Tadge Juechter – Cheif Engineer of the Corvette (and ZR1)
2010 Chevy Traverse – Pretty cool. Took this around the city course. Very nice interior styling. I commented that my wife would like to drive this around to replace the Trailblazer, which is what it was designed for. Quite and lots of room.
Sue Wilson – Crossovers vehicle line director