Jeff Schuster
Jeff Schuster
growth moving segment
Moving forward, most growth in the SUV segment will come from car-based vehicles.
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It has less of a purely American style.
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It definitely speaks to the fact that (this) is a global automotive market and to have that global success, you have to reach with all of your brands and not just the Chrysler brand.
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A lot could happen between now and the end of the month. But at this point, we're on track for an October like we haven't seen sine the early 1990s.
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The new models should provide a slight increase in sales for 18 to 24 months, but after that they should level out again.
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So far, the perceived gas price increases have not had any discernible impact on new-vehicle buying patterns, as least with regard to the size of the engine.
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As we enter into the summer months, any benefit on that side is going to be well received.
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Gas prices are certainly becoming a popular dinner and water cooler discussion topic, but consumers appear to be conditioned to prices at current levels.
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Paying attention to the changing lifestyles of the consumer is very important. When you have so much competition differentiating your product over others with a little tiny thing that suits (the consumer's) lifestyle may be enough to sway them.
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We don't see that happening right now. This is an opportunity for GM to unveil some not-so-pleasant news and get it over with, but in the next few years we see sales being relatively strong.
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Tivoli is coming out with a new set of technologies around composite application management and what we're announcing here is we're integrating support so that Rational Performance Tester is directly tied to those data collectors.
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We had a pretty turbulent 2005, yet sales still hovered around 17 million. Regardless of the exterior shock to the market, it seems to weather everything. We don't see any pullback (in sales), but we don't see any gains.
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What hybrid owners want is to stand out.
announcing functional rational supporting
What we're announcing is that Rational Functional Tester is now supporting executions in that shell.