We're not pleased with our sales decline, but it's important for us to improve the quality of our sales. |
We're seeing a good, solid performance so far this year. |
We're still planning on growing on the commercial business. Commercial business can be very profitable. |
We're still trying to rebuild inventory. We're not anticipating a great September. September will be a challenge and we will have to make do with very lean inventories. |
We've exceeded the sales estimate for the month. We turned the production at a very healthy pace. |
We've seen quite a bit of that 'richening,' even with low (priced) cars, ... If you look at vehicles now, it's not unusual for small cars to have stackable CD changers or satellite. It's quite a change from old beer-can-on-wheels day when the least expensive cars had no options -- no air, not even an automatic transmission. |
We've seen quite a bit of that 'richening,' even with low (priced) cars. If you look at vehicles now, it's not unusual for small cars to have stackable CD changers or satellite. It's quite a change from old beer-can-on-wheels day when the least expensive cars had no options -- no air, not even an automatic transmission. |
What's going to be coming to G.M. hopefully through this process, will be a leaner and more competitive manufacturer. |
What's important for us is this is a category that is essential to GM. Volume-wise, we expect some lift from the new product. Time will tell how much that lift is. |
What's important for us is to focus on stabilizing the retail part of our business, take advantage of new products, continue to build our brands and be competitive. |
When we said value pricing, we said we'd still be competitive in terms of pricing and still run tactical programs. |
While we still have a lot to do, I would describe February and our position coming out of February as pretty good. |
wrestling with each and every day. |
You need a favorable cost structure to make these profitable, ... The transaction price will be the in low teens. This is a price sensitive area. |