For this month’s “Go Lutz Yourself” installment presented by Road&Track, former GM vice chairman Bob Lutz was asked by readers why the people haven’t ever had the privilege of hearing from a candidate who is a “car guy.”
A reader’s question reads: “The current candidates seem agnostic to the joys of owning a fine automobile. Help me choose the right guy! (Hillary doesn’t count, since by her own admission, she has not driven a car since 1996.)” Supposedly, one of the last cars Clinton drove was a 1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera.
Lutz replied with the following:
Thanks for the endorsement, although I should be somewhat offended that you would find it necessary to exclude Hillary! Sadly, car guys never seem to make it in politics. Maybe we’re too busy with our automotive careers or finding the money to nourish our passion. Here’s how I would choose: Select the candidate with the greatest commitment to personal freedom, the least talk of more government regulation, and the one who does not believe it is government’s holy duty to tell you how to live your life.
Sounds like a very Libertarian answer, which should surprise nobody.
America’s outgoing president, Barack Obama, did get acquainted with the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt at this year’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit. However, his interest was more about the push for using renewable resources, and less about the appreciation of the automobiles themselves.
Unfortunately, Lutz was born in Switzerland, so he can’t run for president.
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Agree. And so do the the majority.
Just not the leftist, media elite…
Sounds like a Rubio style endorsement of Cruz to me.
Two fundamentalists that will leverage their position to mandate how others live their lives doesn’t sound like what Lutz is talking about here.
Funny, Cruz is about deregulation. Tell me again how abolition of the IRS is “mandating how people live their lives”. You seem to not understand what a small government conservative is.
I don’t remember condescending you. I understand what “a small government conservative is” and I can probably already see where this conversation is going to go 10 replies in because these are all so very predictable. Cruz may be on the side of abolishing the IRS, but where is he on personal freedoms (the whole point Lutz is trying to make)? If you can define libertarianism for me, and the difference between that ideal and the traditional Republican conservative ideals from Cruz, then we might have a constructive conversation here.
Where is he on personal freedoms? Get a copy of the constitution, read it, that’s where Cruz is on personal freedoms. You weren’t condescending, you were confrontational and you made the mistake of thinking I was a Cruz supporter because I mentioned his name. I was pointing out the “endorsement without saying so” that Rubio spouted off a few weeks ago.
If being confrontational was… that… I’m not sure what to tell you. I didn’t declare you a Cruz supporter, though. It’s untrue what you claim about Cruz and the Constitution, as he has stances and quotes that go against the first, fourth and fourteenth amendments, for starters. But maybe he has his own secret definitions.
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You sound like Left-Wing Larry. Sorry, but we had a leftist president and it obviously failed us.
Time for change. And not just tired slogans with no real substance.
It’s okay if you think so bud, my Volt can fit a gun rack, too. Edit: having both rep and dem presidents have failed us.
“Unfortunately, Lutz was born in Switzerland, so he can’t run for president.”
I don’t think that is a problem for Cruz, seeing how he was born in Canada. I thought you Americans had a lock on that kind of stuff.
All I know is on one side we have a candidate that declares himself a Socialist and makes no excuses for it while the other candidate can not explain the difference between a socialist and a Democrat anymore.
On the other side we have a group of people so disconnected that they can’t even win a sure thing election against the other two because they are doing more damage to themselves than to anyone else. Unfortunately they are our best bet if we like cars.
I think Bob is like me not so much for anyone Republican as much as he is against the Democratic Socialist that want to control every aspect of out lives from cradle to grave.
In other words do not choose anyone who will take all your rights and money in exchange for what they feel you need.
As of now it is not so much who I will vote for but who I will vote against.
The bottom line is nothing in life is free even if the government says you will get it for free. Also the once you give up your freedoms willingly you will not easily get them back. Over 200 years ago many people gave their lives to be free of a large government controlling every aspect of their lives. Now they may died in vain.
FYI I do not Identify as a Socialist, Liberal, Libertarian or even Conservative. I am an American nothing more and nothing less. I am so tired of parties and labels. Why can’t we just do what is right anymore and not have such corrupt party systems.
Why are there no car guys? Why would you want the grief of being president and take the pay cut?
Those who can go into business and do……. Those who can’t teach, protest and run for office.
Speaking of labels… I wouldn’t say one can only be a businessman, teacher, protestor, or politician, and I don’t consider my mentor, who is both a businessman and a teacher, to be some sort of anomaly.
Finally, a smart, cerebral reply.
If only the rest of the people on here were that intelligent.
Dreaming is free!
US automotive companies have survived and faired reasonable well under Obama. Just saying…
Won’t be an issue if Trump gets in. The US will be back to using donkey carts and wagon wheels. Lol