[Cuts will be made from “investment, material and manufacturing expenses,” according to the vice chairman. Lutz also alluded to further changes in its engineering operations, citing healthcare spending and Delphi’s bankruptcy as a challenge to maintaining engineering operations in the U.S.] If economic conditions are such that it becomes economically unfeasible to produce vehicles inside the United States as opposed to importing them from somewhere else, you’d be foolish to keep building, ... We don’t make that decision. The overall economic environment makes that decision. |
Adams is a pretty good back. He adds a lot to their offense. It hurt them when he went out last week. |
All of those things are gradually coming true, so I'm cautiously optimistic about the way the business is developing in the United States. |
Any time you play a good opponent in your opener it's good to get out with a win. Obviously, we've got a lot of things to work on. But the defense made some big plays. With (John) Pemberton, (Michael) Phillips and (Brandon) Walker inside, we're pretty good. |
Bankruptcy is totally out of the question. We have never contemplated it. |
Being able to “think outside the box” presupposes you were able to think in it |
But we are paying the penalty for being a 98-year-old company. |
Dale [Earnhardt] Jr. actually held that steering wheel of the Budweiser car. Jeff Gordon actually held the steering wheel of that DuPont car. |
Design is the great differentiator. In our company, there was a time - not so long ago - when we thought design didn't matter very much. We had a sensible' mentality. We produced vehicles to be practical and serve real-life needs. |
For those who want a nicer interior, take a look at the one in the Saturn Sky. For those who need more power, the answer is on the floor. |
For us to go out with a half-baked system just to get a few months out, I don't think would be prudent. |
From a strict business proposition, this is not where we would make an investment, ... It's not clear that you'll ever be able to recapture the cost of a hybrid in the pricing. But what we forgot in the equation was the emotional aspect of it. |
GM didn't build bad cars in the 1980s and 1990s, but those autos lacked the fit and finish and styling and elegance they should have had. |
GM is definitely better off with Saab brand. |
GM was running hybrids as early as 1968. But when you do a product [at GM], the minute you're dealing with cars, it must generate shareholder return. |