Jim Press
Jim Press
James E. Press is the former Deputy CEO of Chrysler Group LLC serving in that capacity from June to December 2009. He also served as Senior Advisor to Chrysler Financial Company. During this assignment, he assisted Sergio Marchionne in the transition to Fiat. Press was heavily involved in maintaining company operations and product development during the bankruptcy period...
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Everybody is coming out with new hardware. We work for our customers, we build for our customers, and I think they recognize that.
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Toyota's orientation from the very beginning was anybody could go hire a mechanic and hire an engineer and hire this and buy that. Toyota's view was that before they could build a car, they needed to perfect new revolutionary processes to build a mold, to build an engine, to go back to that level. And that's what makes the company different.
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We and Toyota dealers have proven that we give customers good value and service. Republic has made claims that it will revolutionize the car business. All we've seen them do is gobble up dealerships.
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We're partnered with many local San Antonio firms, so there are joint efforts to give a boost to the local economy.
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We see a time when everything will have to be a hybrid.
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At our current rate of sales, that's about 600,000 hybrids in the U.S.. To achieve that goal, we will have to look at offering hybrid power systems in virtually all of our vehicles, including trucks.
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We think our growth will be fueled by these new products.
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No one could have predicted such a monster year, nor anticipated the sustained strength of consumer confidence that fueled the economy. Every indicator points to a leveling-off in early 2000. But, of course, that's what we all said last year.
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We're looking at maybe 4, 5 percent growth, fueled by some of our new products. Next year should be another good year for everybody.
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It has a chassis platform with 30 percent higher tensile strength steel. It's the biggest and boldest truck and allows us to compete in the full-size segment of big trucks.
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It isn't that people aren't buying SUVs -- they've shifted their segment preference into mid-size and small SUVs, and now into hybrid SUVs.
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Our hybrid SUVs allow customers to have their SUVs and be responsible at the same time, and we've seen (demand) really accelerate since Katrina,
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Over the next year, we will be announcing a few more expansions to add capacity.
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Our prospects in 2006, we think they're pretty good. We're looking for a sales increase in the 5 to 10 percent range ourselves.