George Peterson
George Peterson
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When the time is right, we will make a statement, so I ask that you please give the family their space and privacy at this point.
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Owners of recently purchased new cars and trucks will start receiving these surveys within a few days. With the recent economic issues and the surge of new products introduced in recent months, we're eager to see what car and truck owners have to say about their rides.
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There are 64 million people in the U.S. who will be getting drivers' licenses in the next 10 years.
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Toyota is kind of a scary mix of a hugely strong financial company and a great product development company supported by an excellent sales arm. They are really tough to stop.
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We're waiting now to see who blinks first. If Delphi shuts down it brings GM to its knees because GM has no secondary sources to fill the parts pipeline it needs to keep going.
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We've also discussed the possibility of a swimming pool at the school. Who knows. We are taking it one day at a time.
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You are probably talking a $10,000 per vehicle profit on a full-size Chevy Tahoe, $15,000 on the larger Chevy Suburban and $25,000 on the luxury Cadillac Escalade SUV. That's real money and a real contributor to GM losing money in the quarter.
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You can kind of read between the lines on that one.
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She got a very bad feeling about him and had to walk away -- she could not listen to him, ... I think he certainly is someone that the police have put a high degree of scrutiny upon and probably deservedly so.
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It wouldn't be unexpected that those products wouldn't launch as strongly as otherwise.
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A lot of people have gone to the Japanese, and it'll be tough for the domestics to get them back.
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They should continue to lose money. How much depends on how quickly they implement their turnaround plans, but they won't make money until they get their costs down to operate at above break-even levels, and they aren't at that point yet.
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Honda has always been known as the cuddly environmentalist car company, and Toyota has kind of stolen that mantle from them. It would make sense that Honda is trying to broaden its hybrid selection.
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It's absolutely what we'd have expected from Toyota. It's absolutely competitive.