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GM Scraps News Conference at LA Auto Show
11 November 2008
Detroit News. GM has cancelled its news conference during next week’s Los Angeles Auto Show, opting to send out Vice Chairman Bob Lutz instead. Auto shows schedule back to back press conferences—which have tended to resource-intensive multimedia showpieces at larger events—during the press preview days of their events prior to the opening of shows to the public.
“The timing’s not good for us right now given all the other news,” GM spokesman Scott Fosgard said this morning. “You honestly have to ask yourself is the news you’re going to make going to break through the clutter. The automotive and business media attention is on what’s going on in Congress and I just have my doubts that the typical auto show news is going to be as newsworthy as what they’re debating.”
GM still plans to have the North American premieres of the Saab 9-X Air concept vehicle and Chevrolet Volt electric extended-range vehicle at the LA show.
The automaker earlier dropped plans to unveil its Buick LaCrosse in L.A. GM will still have vehicles on display during the auto show and is using the same amount of floor space, Fosgard said. The public “probably won’t even notice a difference,” he said.
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Posted by: Henry Gibson | November 11, 2008 at 02:43 PM
Sure, let's just hate GM. Isn't it more fun that way...? Even though they may have learned a lesson from their mistakes (and unfortunate timing, etc.) of the EV1, let's not give them any credit for their turn-around of opinion. Even though the EV1 was a great idea, and they are trying their best to resurrect the concept, and improve on it, let's just keep bashing them. Now, isn't that more fun....?
p.s. HG, don't you have anything better to do than to troll this site in order to be the first post???? I can picture you there in your basement slathering over every new article.
Posted by: Steve Townsend | November 11, 2008 at 11:50 PM
Keep the Volt and Cruze on schedule and I will be considering my first American branded vehicle in the 16 years I've been driving. Previously, I would not have even bothered with a test drive having read the specs on the vehicles and reviews in magazines [and of course ridden in friends vehicles]. I hope they pull through so I can test drive the Cruze against the Fiesta, Fit Hybrid (or Insight), and any other very efficient vehicles for under $20K.
Posted by: | November 12, 2008 at 10:40 AM
anon:
Get used to it. Here at GCC it is the popular indulgence to posthate against GM. Sure they screwed up, sure they stumble, sure they have the corporate disease of quarterly vision - but they are making changes right now. They have built a very good car in the range-extended VOLT and the PHEV VUE series and will begin to mass produce both next year.
GCC lobbies for green vehicles. But they get annoyed and grumpy when early entries meeting their demands come from a politically incorrect manufacturer. Attesting to an agenda of negativity for all but the correctly anointed.
Posted by: sulleny | November 14, 2008 at 10:06 AM
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Remember the EV1. Remember them being crushed. ..HG..