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.

Gas prices are certainly becoming a popular dinner and water cooler discussion topic, but consumers appear to be conditioned to prices at current levels.

It has less of a purely American style.

The new models should provide a slight increase in sales for 18 to 24 months, but after that they should level out again.

As we enter into the summer months, any benefit on that side is going to be well received.

Competitive pressure means carmakers are compelled to add features, lower prices, and push technology. Consumers get the benefit.

Volker Kruger's extensive automotive background adds another valuable asset to our European team. We see tremendous opportunities to better serve clients in Germany and in surrounding areas with the addition of Mr. Kruger.

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.

The Patriot can end up cannibalizing or competing with vehicles in the Jeep lineup and not provide the incremental volume that they hope it does.

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.