Mark Reuss, General Motors product chief, can be credited with helping to usher in enormous change at the automaker. Therefore, Automotive News will welcome the GM executive to offer a keynote address during its World Congress.
Reuss, who has long been a part of GM through Holden, North America and more, will deliver his address on January 11, 2017. Ford’s Executive Chairman, Bill Ford, will also deliver a keynote address on January 10, 2017.
The event will take place at the Detroit Marriot, part of the General Motors Renaissance Center. Cost is $1,275, and early registers will receive $220 off admission to the event.
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This hopefully will be GMs new Chairman and CEO in the near future. He deserves it more then anyone at GM.
I agree !
Do not want to deny him the spot but he is doing us more good where he is at.
Mary fights the fiscal and board issues and leaves Mark to what he does best product.
I originally thought he should have got the spot over Mary but while she was dealing with the ignition deal Mark was bringing us the new Corvette and Camaro.
I just hope if he moves up another car guy get his spot.
Some good has been done for sure, but the Barra, Reuss, Amman triumvirate has totally failed with regard to affordable performance vehicles. The Camaro continues to be the only choice and as a daily driver it has serious limitations. Many expected to see some type of Cruze for the performance enthusiast? It has not happened, and now the word is they will try a Cruze diesel again. I can’t imagine the business case for that version looks better on paper than a “fun” one. I’m not suggesting they start slapping SS badges on the entire line-up, but is it too much to ask for ONE sport compact or hot hatch or CUV/Truck? Bad job.
Well here is the deal. Mark and Mary have done what is the priority and that is to make GM profitable and stable coming out of bankruptcy.
To do so they have worked to fix many of the volume models and SUV/CUV lines as they are where the money and volume is.
The fact is it is easy to do a diesel as they sell it globally and even if sales are low here the cost are recouped globally.
Now look at the past Cruze SS a great car. But the numbers sold were very small. Also they were not sold globally just as if they do a new one. Keep in mind we are talking 5K-6K cars at best.
Now as the other lines make GM more stable and they get all the other products inline they will be in a place they can afford to do these little NA market niche cars. The simple truth is they need to pay the bills first and stabilize the company.
Now do not think I am against the smaller performance cars As a present owner of an HHR SS and past owner of a ZQ8 Sonoma I look forward to smaller performance models. But I also realize how bad off GM was as many people really have no clue how bad it was. They have done well and are becoming very profitable now but there is still work to do.
The performance models we have now may be expensive but they are making buckets of money where the lower priced one would not.
We will get some more performance options and I will be there for one. I really want a Canyon ZQ8 with a V6.
Ford has an advantage here as the cars they are selling also sell in Europe. GM only has Opel there. Not much performance in China so no help there. Some in Korea but limited.
Sport CUV models are out there but not cheap and sales are low. Ford Edge is nice looking but $50K in the performance version and it is more dress than performance.
So I feel your pain but you have to look at the big picture. This is about a corporation and not just a niche model line future.