Maryann Keller
Maryann Keller
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(GM and Ford) have now sucked up all of the available customers through year-end with their employee pricing scheme. And with gasoline, even though it has come down from its highs, at current prices people are sufficiently concerned about heating their homes and putting gas in their car that they're going to buy more sensibly, and they're not going to buy big sport utility vehicles.
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These were people who grew up inside those companies. They had to have a degree of loyalty to continually provide components at what would be a money losing proposition for them.
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We've never been in a market like this, where gasoline prices are cheap. It's a world that's very hostile to small cars.