Sage Marie
Sage Marie
becoming certainly consumers continue economy fuel gas issue positive prices sales seeing
Fundamentally, we see a positive correlation between gas prices and sales of vehicles. We're certainly seeing fuel economy becoming a more important issue with consumers as we continue to see gas prices rise.
flying fuel played prices
Fuel prices played a role. It's been flying off the trucks.
across april civic huge limited march supplies
We had a huge March and went into April with limited supplies across the Civic line.
inventory limited selling
The only thing that will keep us from selling more is limited inventory from Japan.
awareness certainly highest hybrid level
The awareness of the hybrid is certainly at its highest level ever.
basically bought low lower
Inventories are as low or lower than they've ever been for the Civic. They're basically being bought right off the truck.
cars couple days frankly frequently last tested undergo until
It was just tested and certified a couple days ago, which was not in time. Frequently cars will undergo adjustments and fine-tuning up until the last minute, and frankly even after cars go on sale.