A charity auction for a lunch date with General Motors President Mark Reuss has ended, fetching an impressive $36,000. The auction, which GM Authority spotlighted last week, offered an opportunity to engage directly with the GM bigwig, as well as exclusive access to the annual GM Employee Car Show. Proceeds from the auction will go to benefit charity.
Held on Bring a Trailer, the auction attracted substantial interest, with 23 bids placed culminating in a winning bid by an individual that goes by the (rather ironic) username Fordgt1. The final few minutes in the auction saw some impressive back-and-forth bidding action, rising from $14,000 to the winning $36,000 in just 10 minutes.
The proceeds from the auction, including the buyer’s fee, are set to benefit the Motorsports Museum and Hall of Fame of America Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and promoting the rich history of American motorsports, sharing stories of leadership, teamwork, innovation, originality, and competition with current and future generations.
The lunch date, scheduled for July 24th, 2024, will take place at the General Motors Global Tech Center in Warren, Michigan, which has served GM as a center for automotive engineering, design, and technology since its inception in 1956. Designed by the famed architect Eero Saarinen, the campus also houses the GM Design Auditorium, popularly known as “The Dome.”
Following the lunch, Reuss and the auction winner will attend the General Motors Employee Car Show, an event not open to the general public. This year’s show will celebrate the 60th anniversary of General Motors A-body vehicles, showcasing classics like the Buick Skylark, Chevy Chevelle, Oldsmobile Cutlass, and Pontiac GTO.
Mark Reuss, whose tenure at General Motors began in 1983 as a student intern, has risen through the ranks to become company president in 2019, and now plays a key role in leading GM’s vision of an all-electric future. Reuss currently oversees GM’s regional operations, including North America, South America, China, and General Motors International.
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A lunch and car show tour is a lot safer than a pace car ride. I do appreciate the effort for the beneficiary.
Meet Mark there, don’t let him drive he will crash. Remember the pace car incident
Mark is an incredible driver, and had enough character to return to the pace car again the next year!!!!!
Mark had an amazing career at GM raising thru the ranks as a student intern to GM President.
Although much of this was at the time when his dad was President, of course this was merely a coincidence. Lol
His dad was only President for two years. Must have been a meteoric rise.
Did Mary win the auction?
Mark is the only executive left who understands what the public wants their vehicles to look like and how they want them to drive. He is clearly not getting his way based on the weak engine Crossovers, scaled down luxury cars, the departure from the everyday sedan, and the overpriced electric cars which are suspect to safety concerns for any family that buys one. Mark may be President, but make no bones about Mary decides and is running General Motors into the ground to make sure U.S. manufacturing jobs diminish, and General Motors products are built in other countries before she retires.