Jed Connelly
Jed Connelly
served
I think it's well served to be cautious.
cleanest good logical looked seemed transition
It just seemed like a really good transition time. It seemed like the best, most logical thing to do, and it looked like the cleanest thing for the company.
general manager
Like the general manager of any championship team, I'd like to keep everyone together,
bottom bring corporate flow lower products research savings
It does lower our costs. And all of those savings flow back to the corporate bottom line. It allows us to bring out more new products and do more research and development.
design good mini power profitable
Mini showed what the power of good design can do, and how profitable it can be.
fuel good prices timing
The timing is good because, while fuel prices have stabilized, it's still on people's minds.
duty expect including last market move percent share year
Last year we did 6.3 percent (market share), and that wasn't including subcompacts and heavy-duty trucks. As we move into these segments, you'd expect market share to grow.
basically business entire gulf month region state texas
Dealers in the Gulf region were out of business for most of the month of September. Basically the entire state of Texas was impacted.
august days due few good hurricane last lost momentum
August was very good for us, but we lost some momentum in the last few days due to Hurricane Katrina.
hopeful key minimize
I'm still hopeful we'll keep a lot of the key people. I don't minimize the impact. I know it's going to be difficult.
interest people rates
Interest rates are something that people think about a lot.
bigger piece
Frankly, we want a bigger piece of this market.
hope production result saying visible within
I'm not saying we won't have hiccups within Nissan (as a result of the move), but we hope those hiccups won't be visible in our production or to our customers.
absolutely committed player truck
We're absolutely committed to being a player in the full-size truck market,