The level of offers out there today are very similar to the offers out there in October of last year, post 9/11. Last year it generated the best month in industry history. That same level of program will not come close to generating the same volumes this October.

The segment is always going to be important. But come on. Baby boomers won't want to be driving the same vehicle when they're 70 that they did when they were 55.

I believe our market share will be at least as high in June as in May. It's not where we want it to be. It's not where we need it to be. However, our market share is up,

I don't know if it's a seasonal uplift so much as that dealer incentives have been more focused on trucks than cars.

I don't know if 1999 is going to be quite as strong as 1998 but it looks like it's going to be another good year.

Clearly, I think there's a bunch of factors out there, and probably we're talking about a year-to-year decline of 15 percent translates to 5,000 or 6,000 units,

If there was ever a time to try to make value pricing work, this is the time. If the economy was weak, and if you had a glut of old models, you wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell of implementing value pricing.

In the New Orleans area, many of our dealers are out of business and have lost their entire inventory.

I predict that in June we'll show improved performance in the retail end of the business,

If you can sell 100,000-plus Fusions and 100,000 Five Hundreds, you are back in the car business,