Rebecca Lindland
Rebecca Lindland
affecting cost drives driving expensive gas price prices
It's the price of gas that is driving all of this. Not just at the pump, but the way gas prices are affecting everything else in the economy, making everything else more expensive as it drives up the cost of doing business.
balance bottom platform supports
This is where they make all their money. That's the bottom line. This is the platform that supports their balance sheet.
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They're building products that consumers want, and they're also well-managed, so they don't have any turmoil or anything like that. From a business standpoint, there really isn't much stopping Toyota at this point.
attribute aware consumers gas obviously
Consumers are obviously more aware of gas prices, but I don't think you can attribute all of that to gas prices.
buys gas incentive prices
Even with gas prices this high, a $7,000 to $8,000 incentive buys a lot of gas.
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That is going to directly affect their numbers.
depends gm hard people steer vehicle whether
Whether it will steer people into a GM vehicle is hard to say. It all depends on the cost. People all say they want run-flat tires, but when they find out how much they cost, they do without them.
forecast front gm lead parity shows stay takes toyota until
Our forecast shows GM and Toyota at about parity with GM in 2006, but Toyota takes over the lead in 2007, and they stay in front until 2017.
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I think it's indicative of the market. Consumer Reports has a very high standard for consumer research the gold standard really and for the list of top picks to not have any domestic cars on it really says something.
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Given that's a new model, that's a big decline.
product seem time
It doesn't seem to me that now is the time to play around with product names.
bigger care ford proved successful turning written
He proved successful in turning around Mazda when everyone else had written it off, but Ford is a lot bigger and there's a lot more to take care of.
job people
I feel like people are going to look and say, 'Can I give up my job for $35,000?
abandon buyer chevy people pickup sales
The incremental sales will come from people who want a pickup for the weekend. I don't think the hard-core pickup buyer is going to abandon Ford, Chevy and Dodge.