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
absence core ford hurt longer outlet relate thousands vehicles
Hertz is no longer an outlet for the tens of thousands of Ford vehicles that it used to be, and it doesn't relate to Ford's core business. I don't think the absence of Hertz will hurt Ford overall.
close gm happen likely million numbers pass strength thanks toyota vehicles volume
I think GM's numbers will be close to 9.1 million to 9.2 million vehicles in 2006 thanks to its strength in the Asia-Pacific market. It's likely that Toyota will pass GM in volume worldwide, but I don't think it's going to happen in 2006.
california emissions insanity mainly market states vehicles worried
These are vehicles on the market mainly because of the insanity of regulators in states like California that are worried about emissions standards,
capacity gm quarter service vehicle
Fundamentally speaking, GM has enough capacity to service one-third of the American vehicle business, but they only have about a quarter of it right now.
fields mark matter people wanting
This is really more a matter of Mark Fields wanting to get his own people in place.
chrysler group tougher
I think it's a little tougher for the Chrysler Group than they're admitting.
accumulate basic fourth seeing third
The improvements we are seeing are real. There are a lot of basic improvements being made that will accumulate in the third and fourth quarters.
board company crisis pressure seems suspect turn
I suspect that Wagoner is under a lot of pressure from the board to turn things around. To me it seems the company is in crisis mode.
company earning environment turn
In an environment where nobody's earning raises, if they turn the company around, they get rewarded.
arrival board bought changes good looks plan simply sure though
It looks like they bought a good part of York's program, though I'm not sure they didn't plan these changes anyway. York's arrival on the board simply accelerated the changes.
business cars daily ford less outlet sales
Hertz has become less and less important as an outlet for Ford cars as Ford has pared back sales to Hertz and other daily rental companies. It's really a noncore business right now.
fight gm people scaring shutting strike union
The fight between Delphi and the union is scaring people about a strike shutting down GM. There's been a lot of piling on GM in the media, too.
cash ford help large pension provide research welcome
Ford would welcome the cash for liquidity purposes, to help provide for large unfunded pension liabilities and for research and development.
bankruptcy buy gotten resources stock
I don't buy the bankruptcy talk. I think they have the resources to get through this. The stock has gotten so banged up, it could be an interesting speculation play. But I'm not going to try it myself.