Pacific Spirit Marine Institute
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Bob Lutz, Vice Chairman General Motors will be the winner of Eye on Designs’ 2008 Lifetime Design Achievement Award.
Bob Lutz is not a designer nor is he an engineer. He isn’t even a product development expert. So how has he come to be named the receipiant of the prestiegious Lifetime design award? Previous award winners decide.
Jack Telnack, previous award receipiant and retired Vice President of Design at Ford Motor Company sent his ballot back with a comment about Bob Lutz. Jack Telnack is considered the father of the breathtakingly divinely beautiful design that is the Ford Taurus. Jack said, in part, “if it were not for Bob’s emotional connection with design and backing, I may not have convinced top management at Ford that the original Taurus design was the wave of the future.”
I’m not sure how the Ford Taurus lines up with Lutz’s ideas that a car is an exciting mobile sculpture.
Apparently Bob Lutz is receiving this award because he wields an incredible amount of influence. At least over designers of Autos and that’s too bad since Lutz expressed his opinion that “Global warming was a total crock of sh*t” recently.
The problem with making statements that sound like a ‘total crock of sh*t’ is the need to follow-up defending your crock. In Lutz’s blog entry at GM’s FastLane Blog site Lutz’s seems incredulous that his “Global Warming is a total crock of sh*t statement would “catch on” out there.
Bob Lutz sees that the Hybrid cars “make no economic sense” and gets ‘turned on by’ “…forcing people to re-think their beliefs.” Lutz supports the new fuel-efficient Chevrolet Volt that will run on lithium-ion batteries, but that doesn’t come from worry over the CO2 in the air, but from a business stand point. He says card dealers will thrive in a sluggish economy and they need to say “I make my own prosperity.”
Lutz is intitled to his opinion, but his assertion that “my opinions on the subject-like anyone’s-are immaterial” makes as much sense as the hombre’s assertion in Frida Kahlo’s depiction of a man that had murdered his girlfriend. His defense? ‘I only gave her a few small nips’.
Every ‘Global Warming’ naysayer takes a small ‘nip’ at the planet. Each time we make an indifferent decision not to turn off a light when we leave a room or buy a coffee in a styrofoam cup we are taking ‘a small nip’ at our world.
Every opinion counts. Some opinions influence more people than others; too bad.
Labels: Bob Lutz, CO2, Chevrolet Volt, Crock, Eye on Design, General Motors, Global Warming
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Global Warming is a Crock of Sh*t or algunos pinchazos pequenos?
