{"id":3535,"date":"2021-12-21T16:54:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T16:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3535"},"modified":"2023-03-28T10:16:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T10:16:20","slug":"bob-lutz-bmw-mercedes-afraid-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/bob-lutz-bmw-mercedes-afraid-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Lutz says BMW and Mercedes are afraid of Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seasoned automotive exec Bob Lutz has had a lot to say about Tesla\u2019s Elon Musk over the years. Bob Lutz has assumed Tesla was failing for some time, though he has also praised the company from time to time. Lutz discussed with the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Financial Times<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that BMW and Mercedes are afraid of Musk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ford and VW Group CEOs continue to credit Elon Musk for leading the electric vehicle way. Meanwhile, BMW and Mercedes have lost large numbers of sales to Tesla already.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Financial Times article in discussion is sadly behind a paywall, but the article was actually about Elon Musk\u2019s Person of the Year win with Financial Times. The article is titled &#8220;Elon Musk: Interview with FT\u2019s Person of the year.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To find out more &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/554810\/lutz-musk-scares-bmw-mercedes\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/554810\/lutz-musk-scares-bmw-mercedes\/\">https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/554810\/lutz-musk-scares-bmw-mercedes\/<\/a><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seasoned automotive exec Bob Lutz has had a lot to say about Tesla\u2019s Elon Musk over the years. Bob Lutz has assumed Tesla was failing for some time, though he has also praised the company from time to time. Lutz &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/bob-lutz-bmw-mercedes-afraid-elon-musk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3935,"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions\/3935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}