Paul Ballew Bit Quotations

I expect October to be a bit rocky.

We've seen quite a bit of that 'richening,' even with low (priced) cars, ... If you look at vehicles now, it's not unusual for small cars to have stackable CD changers or satellite. It's quite a change from old beer-can-on-wheels day when the least expensive cars had no options -- no air, not even an automatic transmission.

We've seen quite a bit of that 'richening,' even with low (priced) cars. If you look at vehicles now, it's not unusual for small cars to have stackable CD changers or satellite. It's quite a change from old beer-can-on-wheels day when the least expensive cars had no options -- no air, not even an automatic transmission.

We do anticipate that November and December will be a bit better, ... And then into '06, we anticipate we'll hold our own.

We do anticipate that November and December will be a bit better. And then into '06, we anticipate we'll hold our own.

We were down a little bit from where we expected to be, and the industry was a little softer than we expected it to be.

Our thought process is that this is truly the pause that refreshes. We expect to see improvement in the spring, ... Inventories are a bit higher than we'd like, but that doesn't mean we're treating it as a crisis.