Bob Lutz: Car Brands are Dying - Inside the MotoMan Studio

[@sfoonsfo]

The ultimate car person. Sorry to say we don't have people like him around anymore who is in business (any business) who can make things work!

[@chronos4573]

Motoman, I really enjoyed this episode format with the intersectionality of other topics related to transportation going back and forth between them. Brilliant format and shows the depth and quality of both the guest and the interviewer. Bob Lutz was the perfect guest with the real world experience for this format.

[@eur1gys]

WOW what a guest you've managed to bring !!!!!

[@simonnielsen6023]

Its like he has had an epiphany since last time i heard him, now he really tells how he sees the world rather than what someone expects/tell him to say. This is the bob lutz i wanna see everytime. Great to see some good insight into this guys mind without having an agenda.

[@bobroberts2371]

Also note Bobs take on what a cars heater / AC and radio controls should be. ( below is more or less his quote ) " A knob for blower speed, temperature and where the air comes out. For a radio, a knob for volume and station "

[@josephrtaylor21061]

I tend to agree with the vision Mr. Lutz puts forward, but I think his timeline is off by at least 50 years with as much as 25 years of an additional delta. Futurists, like Science Fiction writers, always undershoot the timeline. Example - Blade Runner takes place in 2017. Heck, that type of society even minus the dystopia, is 200 years out. The only counterexample is James S.A. Corey - they are probably pretty close to accurate with The Expanse. Coming back to Mr. Lutz, he is definitely a very intelligent guy. Love the channel MM. Count me in as a subscriber.

[@my4cars528]

The IBM cyber future talk reminded me of Constant's New Babylon. Great great interview!

[@joshualewis3337]

It's absolutely mind-boggling to me that you could spend so much time talking about China's policy regarding foreign automotive manufacturers, but not address the fact that Tesla, an all-American company, has made history by convincing the Chinese to let them own their entire manufacturing operation in the country. So frustrating.

[@MotoManTV]

A bit behind the scenes . . . This was only a portion of an almost 3 hour conversation with Bob. There will be a second episode from Bob coming later in this season of Inside the MotoMan Studio that drills down more specifically on many OEMs . . . Including Tesla.

[@joshualewis3337]

Good to hear! Would love to know his thoughts on their China factory.

[@eleganz]

Joshua Lewis in China nobody owns anything except for the CCP. Tesla only has a lease.

[@JEB757]

@MotoManTV thanks for the links! As usual, always enjoy the genius of Bob. Even if I disagree with his timeline. Feel free to chat aviation as well. :)

[@michaelkane732]

very refreshing to watch, as always

[@vmoutsop]

I don't know guys. My problem is not technology or the legality which everybody focuses on. It's the processes, methodologies, hardware manufacturing, software coding and corporate cultures that have to change. People, managers, directors, executives and boards are conditioned to manage risk. It's a human thing. In an AV world we have to have hardware and software that are developed, manufactured, built, tested, audited, etc with a NASA level of 0% tolerance of risk for errors throughout the entire system. This is a revolutionary change not an evolutionary change covering so many companies, supply chains. As much as I hate the concept of AV, centralized transportation and more government control over my life, I'm not saying it's not inevitable I don't think it's possible even in 30 years. The logistics and processes and precision required would make a space launch look like a hiccup.

[@eldoroddo]

Fantastic interview, I could watch it for hours. Thank you so much and I can't wait to see the future guests. Viele Grüße aus München!

[@MotoManTV]

Vielen Dank! Gute Nachrichten . . . Sie werden eine weitere Episode mit Bob sowie eine Episode mit Albert Biermann bekommen.

[@eldoroddo]

MotoManTV perfektes Deutsch! Thank you, can’t wait for it :)

[@mikebishop3473]

Great interview. Bob Lutz is an American icon.

[@mazdapremacy97]

In serbia that has no import tax on eu cars m5 costs 175 thousand euro the numbers are waaayyyy different

[@aaronmckeever3601]

That was simply exceptional.

[@donteadoss]

Incredible interview! - I’m wondering what Lutz’s take would be on “a potential economic bubble” if you had mentioned the information you mentioned in a prior episode of yours regarding people being financed for 72+ month loans on top of the study released not long ago about consumers being +/-90 days behind on their auto loans ...

[@0843ify]

Great interview !

[@Tully3674]

Great interview - Thank you!

[@bigmedge]

Which year & model of Buick was that in the background ?

[@acefighterpilot]

If you can get guests like this, do a podcast!

[@MotoManTV]

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[@DougsPerspective]

Thank you Bob Lutz and thank you Motoman! A wonderful and enlightening conversation. The "Intellectual Horsepower" contained within Bob Lutz is greater than any Mustang or Viper he created!

[@swiper1818]

Superb interview!

[@inexconst]

Fantastic interview well done and informative

[@MotoManTV]

Thank you, Charles!

[@coffeytnmilk]

Such a great interview! Well done.

[@evankatz2893]

George.One Hell Of An Interview,From A Long Term Fan,All The Best, Evan From The East Coast. Bish Beta.

[@IceDree]

Brilliant discussion, M. Touched on a variety of topics. I really enjoyed listening to it and I'm looking forward to Bob's next appearance. The GM-JDN bit cracked me, typical GM shortsighted decision lol. I have to say though, Bob sees a bleak future ahead and I sincerely hope he's wrong on this week, with all due respect to him. I despise American politics, but he's absolutely right about El hefe, they've been undermining him since day one. Dude could cure cancer, bring world peace, get rid of poverty & hunger, and it still won't be enough. This political tribalism bs is a cancer destroying the West from the inside. I tried subscribing to your podcast on Android, but Google in all of its infinite wisdom decided I'm not allowed to, stupid country restrictions, So I whipped out my good ol' Windows Phone and subscribed there lol. If your stats show a lone WP subscribed there, you know who that is . . . ;) Anyway, I'll subscribe on iTunes and find a third party app on Android that actually works. Cheers.

[@MotoManTV]

AMRO! Thanks for the great feedback . . . I shared this episode with JDN and he enjoyed it as well. Appreciate you subscribing from multiple points . . . Looking to grow the show further through the Podcast world and reach folks beyond cars . . . hence you are going to see more business and world view conversations like this as well as some folks shaping the car world from the outside. Have people from Samsung, Amazon and even Under Armour coming on the show! Belt in!

[@IceDree]

@@MotoManTV my pleasure, M. Sounds exciting, I'm looking forward to them. I'm afraid I'm going to have to pass on the Amazon episode though. You know I love you and I'm sure you booked a great guest, and I mean no disrespect to him or her, but I don't do Amazon. Its no secret how Amazon overlord and his propaganda team of hacks feel about us. Sorry.

[@InterDimensionalLizard]

An all-autonomous driving future is evil. You will need approval from the network in order to travel anywhere, and if you associate with a person deemed subversive, then you are forbidden from going anywhere.

[@maestroadam]

Wow. Great interview, MotoMan.

[@brogcooper25]

If Waymo, Cruise, Pony, Mobile Eye, etc. get to autonomy first, their first mover advantage will indeed be short lived. If Tesla is first with their lidarless machine learning approach, their first mover advantage will be both significant and long lived. Even if competitors have the road map Tesla lays out, they will still need millions of vehicles driving billions of miles to collect real world data. They would obviously accelerate the manufacturing and distribution of vehicles as much as possible, but it will still take time. After getting the cars on the road they will still need to train the data which takes more time. It's really hard to tell at this point, but it looks like in the AV race, Tesla is either dead last, or way in first.

[@austJW]

Tesla is way in front.

[@ruibarros3589]

That was outstanding!

[@MrThepervv]

Minimum wages don’t work? Rent controls don’t work? This is dementia talking...

[@MrThepervv]

Robert Blackford what you said is so ridiculous I’m not even going to respond to that. I suggest you get some life experience in something other then trolling.

[@MrThepervv]

Robert Blackford name just one of the business’s you claimed to have owned? Just one?

[@acefighterpilot]

Yeah, but when deregulation crashes the economy and Bob's company needs a government bailout, it's anti American and anti worker to let the free market be free. The only problem with government intervention is when the little guy gets it. I'll trade the minimum wage for mandatory unionization, let the laborers set the labor rate, not big businesses in collusion.

[@Fluterra]

Bob Lutz was a MASSIVE Disappointment in his last stint at GM. Sorry to say, because I was expecting and hoping for him to lead the turnaround from a product standpoint. Instead, we got more of the garbage that GM was producing for the decades before. Ok, the Viper is a notable exception, and he’s had a couple more; but his last run at GM was terrible. Let’s not forget he co-ran GM into Bankruptcy. Then blamed everyone but himself. What happened to Great Product, Bob?!

[@RoyMcLellan]

One of the last true Men left in the world.

[@Fluterra]

Roy McLellan Huh? He’s an egotistic shallow shell of a man.

[@mindhunter8772]

@@Fluterra were did you hear these negative things?

[@Fluterra]

Fred Rick From the facts, and my own experience having worked for him at GM.

[@theviewer4915]

Bob is a badass!

[@zoner__]

Navigator? A bread truck with a fancy grill. Should have a Wonder Bread decal slapped on the side. Now Aviator yes.

[@vmoutsop]

Absolutely amazing. What a great example for future generations. Especially today's young adults who don't understand civics, hard work and family values. I use Bob and my father as examples of people of a generation for my three children that they should aspire to emulate as I still do.

[@Toro_Da_Corsa]

Yeah yeah boomer.

[@vmoutsop]

@@Toro_Da_Corsa Yeah, not a boomer and if you don’t realize the wisdom given by Bob and others like him, you and your family are destined for failure. If that is the case, then I’m sure the Darwin awards group will love to have you as one of their award contestants in the near future.

[@MrSchattka]

Interesting; there are parallels between Bob Lutz's outlook and those of Andrew Yang (Democratic hopeful).

[@markito9864]

Mr. Lutz is REAL. He is honest, intelligent, grateful, and insightful. Can you even imagine him around all the automotive bozos who just want to sell, sell, sell.

[@MotoManTV]

I've seen it. He does not suffer fools.

[@B.E.N.S]

Amazing chat

[@jonienglish3231]

Review the DODGE VIPER !!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks BOB LUTZ

[@MotoManTV]

I DID! LONG ago: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4LdZ5uMaZuqh7s

[@soulmaster63]

Well...The necessity of auto leases are a byproduct of over-inflated car prices. Leasing and long term financing are misused and overused to move large volumes of overpriced vehicles.

[@danielgregg2530]

I think his crystal ball view will probably turn out to be pretty distorted in the end. His predictions amount to the most intensive and extensive regulation of privately-owned transportation in history, while all political trends prevailing in the U.S. and in some other places as well have been running in exactly the opposite direction for at least 20 years now. The technology has nothing to do with it, and even whatever economics considerations might prevail are going to have to reckon with a political environment which for all the rationally foreseeable future are actively hostile to such a regulatory environment. If you can't take away something as useless as an AR-15 you think you are going to get Bubba's pickup truck, or his Corvette, or even Mom's Toyota? He is making the science fiction writers' classic mistake seen for at least the last hundred years, making predictions based on technical possibilities rather than on what people will actually tolerate, and in particular the ever-increasingly powerful decision-maker demographic. (And no, he isn't even right about South Padre Island, Texas, where these snowbirds from the cold, frozen north fail to reckon with high heat, oppressive humidity, and hurricanes.)

[@googleleavemynamealone9145]

Wow incredible! Never would have guessed that a young impressionable Trump would have had an influence from a powerful man like Lee Iaccoca back then. Lee was a big man on campus and Trump likely saw that and wanted it. Lee probably had advocated for American Industry and got praise from both sides of the door and that's where trump gets his nationalistic 'bravado' from!

[@TheGecko213]

All this Bob Lutz fantasy future world is Moot . We are all going to die of mutant variants of the COVID 19 😂😂

[@romeotrinh6415]

The way I see it if America no longer has middle classes then not many family can continue living on luxuries stuffs or driving any vehicle price above 100 grand. So for those car companies that produce expensive cars without consumers to buy will be bankrupt! Meanwhile more average car companies continue making more affordable cars for consumers to buy and they making more than demand need it will end up more and more new cars but not much buying, it is happen in all industries in America from electronic to clothing, car.....any company making good stuffs cheap will survive and growth if not they will start closing one by one they all will be bankrupt and they will die out!

[@50foad]

Bob Lutz is full of shit recommending that GM kill the Corvette brand by making the same mistake that Ford did with the Mustang brand. Corvette SUV. Give me a fucking break. Corvette should stay unmolested with Chevrolet.

[@johnfrei9057]

I want nothing to do with this bleak, autonomous future Lutz describes. Also, if you take the property of one person and give it to another, that has everything to do with socialism.

[@thehumanoid6543]

lol if this shit gets on twitter the woke people will get so butthurt btw thanks mr lutz for building the cts v wagon(even though they sold 2)

[@kleinzach007]

Interesting but he has been so wrong on Tesla the past few years it is ridiculous to believe his 10 to 30 year predictions of the future.

[@jonjones3866]

Sorry but this guy is a loony Some industries can be automated, others can't This boomer is way off his head lolol

[@mygoogleemail2063]

Jon Jones the ones that candy won’t be industrial they will be hobbies.

[@TheShootingBrake]

Jon Jones Disrespectful little kid. Go back to the tesla fanboy channels.

[@jonjones3866]

@@TheShootingBrake I don't like teslas lolol But this boomer is off his head Did I offend you boomer?

[@robgarnett1]

Bob Lutz is not a boomer

[@jonjones3866]

@@robgarnett1 idgaf bro, he's an old loony so he's a boomer to me Crazy talk