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GM Collections: From Bob Lutz to Oxana Baiul

It has been an interesting landing here in Detroit for a blogger preview of GM's 2008 model year lineup. Conversation around the bar table was all over the map from Bob Lutz worship to some video shoot with Oxana Baiul. No secrets were revealed on future products, so I don't have any juicy gossip.

It's great to be here and I feel very privileged to help represent the wide swath of automotive bloggers out in the world today from the full timers to the hobbyist. This is GM's first blogger-centric collections event and I'm very keen to read all the various coverage it will get from the other blogs. I'll be linking over to stories as I find them.

I'd like to relate a story of my own. Way back when I started ACATT, I applied to all the various manufacturers for online media access. One of the lone hold outs was GM. Later on I noticed that GM had linked to some stories on ACATT in its Fastlane blog, so I applied again: denied. Now 2007 rolls around and ACATT is in! That's good stuff!

Tomorrow's ride and drive will inlude a non-Z06 Corvette, some dual mode hybrids, various Saturn Vues, a Hummer H3 Alpha and many more new/refreshed models.

I hope to have a lot of seat time and relate driving impressions back to you.

BTW: GM wants you to know that they paid my way for this trip.