Lutz ready to write his next chapter

 12.03.2010 00:22   freep.com

Bob Lutz is not an adviser. He's 78, tired of the 4:30 a.m. alarm clock and in a role at General Motors as vice chairman in which he's not running anything. "My work is done here," he said Thursday, in an interview with the Free Press after announcing plans last week to retire May 1.

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