Another Reason to Stay a Chevy Man

With my family getting bigger soon, I will be needing something bigger than my two-seater Chevy SSR.  I had tossed around the idea of looking at the Ford lineup.  I’m glad this article came out to prevent me from making THAT mistake.  I’ve been a happy Chevy owner for 8 years now, and as far as I know, the CEO of GM doesn’t go around joking about killing the President.  So I’ll stick with Chevy. 

From Reuters here:

Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Alan Mulally is no longer laughing about his suggestion that he saved President Bush’s life during a recent White House visit.

The No. 2 U.S. automaker on Tuesday apologized after Mulally said his claim of intervening to prevent U.S. President George W. Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of an experimental Ford vehicle had been meant as a joke.

Ford said Mulally never expected the story he told journalists in New York last week would be taken seriously.

The CEO found himself in an embarrassing situation when the story was featured on blogs and even in mainstream media like the Financial Times, which said “he may have saved the incumbent of the Oval Office from blowing himself up.”

Recounting the meeting at the White House on March 28, Mulally said he noticed the president appeared to be ready to plug the power cord into the wrong outlet of a rechargeable vehicle that also runs on hydrogen.

“I violated all protocols. I grabbed his arm and I moved him up to the front,” Mulally told reporters last Wednesday.

“I wanted to make sure he plugged into the electricity, not into the hydrogen,” he said to roars of laughter from the media, before adding: “This is all off the record, right?”