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When Bob Lutz speaks, we listen. How could we not? He’s an octogenarian who looks like a Nordic god and flies fighter jets. He’s also an automotive legend who had a hand in everything from the Dodge Viper to the Chevrolet Volt. And so it was no surprise that Lutz’s comments last week about Pontiac’s plans to introduce a line of rear-wheel-drive, cut-rate BMWs drew so much attention. “Pontiac was on its way back … we were embarked on a strategy of making Pontiac different from the rest of GM in that Pontiac would not get any front wheel drive cars,” the former GM product vice chairman told a forum at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, according to Autoweek. He added that the next G6 was going to share the Cadillac ATS’s Alpha architecture.