NEW YORK — General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz capped off a week dedicated to promoting the Chevrolet Volt with an appearance on The Colbert Report, where he submitted to a barrage of questions, including such doozies as, "Will it get me laid?"
Lutz's response: "You're going to get a lot of nice, no-makeup environmentalist [women]." Lutz also defended his appearance on his corporate GM FastLane blog late Thursday, explaining why he looked like a deer in the headlights at several points in the interview.
"If you see the interview, you'll notice some pauses on my part," Lutz wrote. "Those pauses were not because I didn't know what to say; they were time needed to index through and discard the truly dangerous answers!"
He added that Colbert has an "outrageous persona." "It turns out, unfortunately, that 'outrageous' is the main bandwidth of my humor, so I found my responses coming reasonably fast and automatically," Lutz said.
The "will it get me laid" question seemed to strike a nerve, at least with commenters on GM FastLane. "My Solstice never has gotten me laid, but you're willing to bet the Volt will?" asked Josh E. Oliver. Another castigated Lutz for "making fun of no-makeup [sic] environmentally correct women."
The Volt seemed to be excellent fodder for Colbert, who asked Lutz why GM didn't call the electric car the "Chevy Gore," after former U.S. vice president Al Gore. Gore is one of the most vocal proponents of the global warming theory. "I don't believe in the CO2 theory," said Lutz. "I have to get off this subject."
Getting in the spirit of the show, Lutz also suggested near the end of the interview that "you could probably charge [the Volt] off the Hummer."
What this means to you: Undoubtedly the most outrageous Volt interview to date, expect to hear more moderate questions about the Volt again and again as GM's poster car nears production. — Anita Lienert, Correspondent
Lutz's response: "You're going to get a lot of nice, no-makeup environmentalist [women]." Lutz also defended his appearance on his corporate GM FastLane blog late Thursday, explaining why he looked like a deer in the headlights at several points in the interview.
"If you see the interview, you'll notice some pauses on my part," Lutz wrote. "Those pauses were not because I didn't know what to say; they were time needed to index through and discard the truly dangerous answers!"
He added that Colbert has an "outrageous persona." "It turns out, unfortunately, that 'outrageous' is the main bandwidth of my humor, so I found my responses coming reasonably fast and automatically," Lutz said.
The "will it get me laid" question seemed to strike a nerve, at least with commenters on GM FastLane. "My Solstice never has gotten me laid, but you're willing to bet the Volt will?" asked Josh E. Oliver. Another castigated Lutz for "making fun of no-makeup [sic] environmentally correct women."
The Volt seemed to be excellent fodder for Colbert, who asked Lutz why GM didn't call the electric car the "Chevy Gore," after former U.S. vice president Al Gore. Gore is one of the most vocal proponents of the global warming theory. "I don't believe in the CO2 theory," said Lutz. "I have to get off this subject."
Getting in the spirit of the show, Lutz also suggested near the end of the interview that "you could probably charge [the Volt] off the Hummer."
What this means to you: Undoubtedly the most outrageous Volt interview to date, expect to hear more moderate questions about the Volt again and again as GM's poster car nears production. — Anita Lienert, Correspondent
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