They made history for themselves. We had strength in depth in the Eighties, top-flight players on the bench. Now, we only have four Premiership players in the squad, and two are goalkeepers. |
They may be a little slow for new models, ... (Chrysler) may still be pipeline filling, building up dealer inventories for Concorde. They have a lot of hopes pinned on those cars. |
They must have recognized the difficulty of growing internationally without a partner, and that having an international presence outside of North America was a lot more than they had acknowledged |
They say they are not increasing their incentive spending, but I have a hard time believing that, especially with the zero-percent financing. Chrysler probably has a lot of problems with inventories, and it's trying to solve them by price-cutting. |
They were pretty much as expected in North America, ... Where they made gains was in better operating margins in Europe. Given that the market-share numbers in Europe are available and pretty unimpressive, it must be on the cost side. |
They were pretty much as expected in North America. Where they made gains was in better operating margins in Europe. Given that the market-share numbers in Europe are available and pretty unimpressive, it must be on the cost side. |
They're starting to act like a company that burned through $7 billion in cash last year. |
They've decided it's a non-core business. |
They've got a hell of a lot of resources to withstand a prolonged period of negative cash flow, ... slim and none. |
They've got some interesting new stuff coming out. They're going to continue to do better than GM and Ford in North America, but I think there'll be a squeeze on their earnings. |
They've got to do some of the same things in North America they've been doing in Europe ? cutting the hell out of capacity and bringing in some hot new models. That's easier said than done. Things will get worse there before they get better. |
They've got to get these operations turned around. By 2007, I think that will begin to happen. |
This is a young, up-and-coming team and there is hope for the future. Of course the last two results have been disappointing but there is plenty to build on. |
This is really more a matter of Mark Fields wanting to get his own people in place. |
To me it was a foregone conclusion because the union and the company had already agreed to it. |