Was a Bob Lutz GM Fastlane post pulled?

I hibernated my machine, with the feed reader running, last night. Restarting today I found this post captured in the feed from GM's Fastlane Blog but it's no longer on the blog? Was it pulled? Why?

UPDATE 2008-09-07: Below is from the feed, Google have cached a different version...

GM FastLane - Questions and Answers

By Bob Lutz
GM Vice Chairman

Here’s something that arrived in my e-mail inbox recently from an old friend. I thought I’d pass it along to the FastLane crowd, because I know you’ll find it as interesting as I did. The Big Three has taken a lot of heat in recent years over falling sales in the domestic auto industry. But, as this little quiz reminds us, there’s plenty that the U.S. automakers in general – and GM in particular – are doing right.

The correct answers, along with sources, are after the jump.

1.) Which mid-size sedan has the highest initial quality?
a. Accord (Honda)
b. Altima (Nissan)
c. Camry (Toyota)
d. Malibu (Chevrolet)

2.) Which large sedan has the highest initial quality?
a. Avalon (Toyota)
b. Grand Prix (Pontiac)
c. Sable (Mercury)

3.) Which mid-size pickup has the highest initial quality?
a. Dakota (Dodge)
b. Ranger (Ford)
c. Tacoma (Toyota)

4.) Which car is the most economical overall?
a. Aveo (Chevrolet)
b. Fit (Honda)
c. Prius (Toyota)

5.) Which car did the LA Times describe as, “a better car than BMW or Mercedes or Lexus or Infiniti?”
a. A6 (Audi)
b. CTS (Cadillac)
c. RL (Acura)

6.) Which company makes the winner of the 2008 “Green Car of the Year” award?
a. Chevrolet
b. Honda
c. Toyota

7.) Which car was selected by the North American Automotive Press Corps as the “North American Car of the Year” for 2007?
a. Aura (Saturn)
b. Camry (Toyota)
c. Fit (Honda)

8.) Which car won the same award for 2008?
a. Accord (Honda)
b. Altima coupe (Nissan)
c. Malibu (Chevrolet)

ANSWERS:

1.) Which mid-size sedan has the highest initial quality?
Answer: The Chevrolet Malibu has better initial quality than any competitor, including the Honda Accord, Toyota Camry and Nissan Altima. The Ford Fusion also beat all 3 Japanese competitors, according to he J.D. Power Initial Quality Survey, which also reveals that above average are American brands Mercury, Ford, Cadillac, Chevrolet , Pontiac, Lincoln, and Buick. Below average are import brands Acura, Kia, Nissan, BMW, Mazda, VW, Subaru, and Scion (and several others).

2. ) Which large sedan has the highest initial quality?
Answer: Again per J.D. Power, the highest quality large car is the Pontiac Grand Prix, beating the Toyota Avalon. Two other Detroit cars that beat the Avalon are the Mercury Sable and Mercury Grand Marquis.

3.) Which mid-size pickup has the highest initial quality?
Answer: According to J.D. Power, the Dodge Dakota has the best quality for midsize pickups, proving that Chrysler too can beat the imports. Both the Dakota and the Ford Ranger beat the Toyota Tacoma.

4.) Which car is the most economical overall?
Answer: Per Edmunds.com, the premier automotive analysis site, the most-economical car in America, taking into account not only mileage but all costs, is the Chevrolet Aveo.

5.) Which car did the Los Angeles Times describe as “a better car than BMW or Mercedes or Lexus or Infiniti?”
Answer: “Cadillac makes a better car than BMW or Mercedes or Lexus or Infiniti, and that car is the 2008 CTS. No other car in the mass market dares so much as this expressive and audacious bit of automotive avant-gardism.” — Dan Neil, LA Times.

6.) Which company makes the winner of the 2008 “Green Car of the Year” award?
Answer: The Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid wins this award. How could a full-size SUV defeat the media darling Toyota Prius? Read what greencar.com has to say and you’ll discover that, “What’s equally eye-opening is that the Tahoe’s 21 mpg city fuel efficiency rating is the same as that of the city EPA rating for the four-cylinder Toyota Camry sedan.” Did you catch that? A huge, full-size SUV from Chevrolet that gets the same city mileage as a four-cylinder Toyota Camry. Chevy obtained this remarkable achievement through the use of its 2-Mode hybrid system.

7.) Which car was selected by the North American automotive press corps as the “North American Car of the Year” for 2007?
Answer: The Saturn Aura picked by the Automotive Press Corps.

8.) Which car won the same award for 2008?
Answer: The Chevy Malibu.