{"id":2375,"date":"2007-02-09T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2007\/02\/09\/chicago-auto-show-the-interview-round-up\/"},"modified":"2007-02-09T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T17:35:00","slug":"chicago-auto-show-the-interview-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/chicago-auto-show-the-interview-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Auto Show: The Interview Round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Apologies for not getting this up sooner… was in bed at 8:30 Wednesday night, and yesterday was traveling home day…<\/p>\n

I spent a good part of Wednesday afternoon talking to GM executives. We’ve got audio files that we’ll be sharing with you as soon as we get some glitches smoothed out, but I wanted to give you a quick overview.<\/p>\n

GM scheduled a group interview\/conversation with the bloggers at the show and our colleague Bob Lutz, Vice Chairman of Global Product Development. If you follow GM’s FastLane blog<\/a>, you know that he’s pretty outspoken — that was clear in our discussion, too. It was a fascinating meeting — Lutz addressed not only environmental concerns (even what he thought would happen to vehicles like the Hummer with GM’s stated commitment to “reinventing the automobile”), but also the history of design at GM (and how it’s come back into prominence), and even the perils of blogging with a PR team watching what you say!<\/p>\n

I also met with Saturn’s Director of Brand & Product Development Lisa Hutchinson. With the unveiling of the Astra, the Saturn folks were clearly in demand — I was originally supposed to meet with Saturn GM Jill Lajdziak, but the radio folks kept her for themselves. Lisa was clearly in demand, also, so we kept it short and sweet. Essentially,<\/p>\n