Jeff Schuster
Jeff Schuster
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So far, the perceived gas price increases have not had any discernible impact on new-vehicle buying patterns, as least with regard to the size of the engine.
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Gas prices are certainly becoming a popular dinner and water cooler discussion topic, but consumers appear to be conditioned to prices at current levels.
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The new models should provide a slight increase in sales for 18 to 24 months, but after that they should level out again.
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Competitive pressure means carmakers are compelled to add features, lower prices, and push technology. Consumers get the benefit.
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As we enter into the summer months, any benefit on that side is going to be well received.
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What hybrid owners want is to stand out.
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It has less of a purely American style.
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We had a pretty turbulent 2005, yet sales still hovered around 17 million. Regardless of the exterior shock to the market, it seems to weather everything. We don't see any pullback (in sales), but we don't see any gains.
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Volker Kruger's extensive automotive background adds another valuable asset to our European team. We see tremendous opportunities to better serve clients in Germany and in surrounding areas with the addition of Mr. Kruger.
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The Patriot can end up cannibalizing or competing with vehicles in the Jeep lineup and not provide the incremental volume that they hope it does.
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Tivoli is coming out with a new set of technologies around composite application management and what we're announcing here is we're integrating support so that Rational Performance Tester is directly tied to those data collectors.
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Moving forward, most growth in the SUV segment will come from car-based vehicles.
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What we're doing is continuing to invest in our automated software quality solutions.
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What we're announcing is that Rational Functional Tester is now supporting executions in that shell.