Jim Sanfilippo
Jim Sanfilippo
ability horizon product
Jack's a product visionary. He's got the ability to look over the horizon and see how it's going and tell you how to get there. That's an extraordinary talent.
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I think people have the deer-in-the-headlights syndrome, just delaying purchases based on the bad news of gas prices coming out of the winter.
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It doesn't look like they had as fast a start as they did last year.
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With $3 a gallon or more for gasoline, there's a huge potential for people to migrate back to cars over the next few months. Honda has an abundant strength in terms of its perception as green -- for high-mileage cars.
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Volkswagen has gotten their products in line, and now they are increasing awareness with their marketing campaign. I don't see anything blocking them this year other than possible new incentives.
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What Ford is trying to do is find hyper-efficient ways to connect the name with the image of the vehicle in the marketplace prior to introduction.
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This will be a big positive because there is a migration taking place from traditional SUVs to something that has the same feeling but is not as big. It provides a destination for all the defectors who don't want SUVs anymore.
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Nissan does war-gaming, looking out on the horizon, studying where the competition is, and this is an area they need to address.
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There's so many other Toyota vehicles they can buy in the 40 miles a gallon range. You can get a Honda Civic automatic that gets 30 and 40 (miles per gallon). Do I need a Honda hybrid?
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Sales are going to be down a bit, and it's because of gas prices that haven't seemed to come down. The end of the month hurt the auto manufacturers. People were saying, 'Are gas prices finally going to fall?' And they didn't.
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Once you have these benefits, it's very difficult to take them away.
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It's a race for the hearts and minds of the premium buyer.
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They've got to be very pleased. They are buoyant on sales of their most important products. It really does signal a very robust first quarter for them.
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It's energy. It's not just gasoline. People are looking at their gas and electric bills. Talk about stunned silence.