David Healy
David Healy
David Jonathan Healy, MBEis a Northern Irish former footballer and now football manager who is in charge at NIFL Premiership club Linfield...
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth5 August 1979
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The passenger cars are not inherently as profitable as big SUVs or big pickups, but they have to refurbish their car line, even if it doesn't get them back to historical profit margins,
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GM has to solve its problems (in the United States) before it can be profitable again. China is not going to bail out the company.
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With their sharp decline in market share, they have frankly got too much capacity, too many plants, too many people to be profitable in North America.
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Truck-based models cost less for U.S. car markers to produce because they already have all the parts developed for their truck business. These truck-based SUVs have been the most profitable segment for Detroit in recent years, so developing new car-based models will eat into margins.
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It's still a very profitable segment. That's why everyone is getting into it. But you will definitely see more incentives.
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We did not play great but the main thing is that we won,
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You have to praise their sense of realism, that they'll never get to a 25 percent share again. They have got to do this to survive.
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You have an earnings penalty and a cash benefit, neither of which is overwhelming.
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With GM, I think overall you'll be looking at a 9 percent increase in October this year versus October last year in GM's light truck sales, and I think that their SUV sales will show an increase at least that big year over year. That's the good news.
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To me it was a foregone conclusion because the union and the company had already agreed to it.
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While the (health-care) deal is a positive, they have several other challenges. They are losing too much market share. They have too many plants, too many people and too many models.
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What GM is talking about in my book are not hybrids. These are trucks with humongous starter motors.
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Both Ford and G.M. are saddled with these legacy costs that they're negotiating with the union. Beyond that, there isn't much they can do but continue to attack their single largest cost: purchased materials.
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We can take some confidence from the result against Azerbaijan.