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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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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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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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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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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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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It would be a dream come true to score and incredible to score the winner.
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It was the sweetest moment in my career,
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isn't going to make or break the company.
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These are vehicles on the market mainly because of the insanity of regulators in states like California that are worried about emissions standards,
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These are things they've got to do, but there's a lot more. They've got too many models, too many people and too many plants for the amount of business they're doing now.
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These are small, insignificant adjustments relative to the size of the company.
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Everything was great in North America. But they were struggling elsewhere. I think that they're running into a lot of competition in pricing and product.
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Sales were running down in the early part of the month. In the middle of the month, they launched heavy incentives, and had a very strong close.
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Sales of gas-inefficient large SUVs are in a state of near-collapse this month. It seems likely that the shift in the sales mix away from large SUVs will persist and continue to damage Detroit's profit margins in the process.