Bob Lutz changing jobs at GM

General Motors has just announced that Bob Lutz, former #2 man at Chrysler Corporation and the driving force behind Chrysler’s revolutionary mid-1990s carlines, will be move from head of GM’s product development to being vice chairman and senior adviser to CEO Rick Wagoner on April 1, 2009.

GM is in the midst of a historic change in its product lines, with brands being dropped or sold, moved into niches, and re-emphasized. 

Thomas G. Stephens, currently leading global quality and powertrain, will head global product development, reporting to president Fritz Henderson.