Paul Ballew Continue Quotations

Monetary policy can take a year, year and a half to rifle through the economy. Vehicle sales have held up somewhat better than what people have anticipated. You try to find balance ... When all is said and done, we don't anticipate the back end of this year to be a poor back end. We just continue to try to put forth what we think is the right balance. We're cautiously optimistic.

What's important for us is to focus on stabilizing the retail part of our business, take advantage of new products, continue to build our brands and be competitive.

Certainly we did not see the surge we saw ...back in October of '01 or ...last July, ... But despite the ebbs and flows, we're going to wrap up this month pretty much as we thought it would play. And we're seeing mix continue to richen.

It's a program that has been crafted for a period of time -- it was not created due to weak sales in May. We are on the offensive and we plan to continue to be on the offensive. We believe simple and compelling works, and we believe leadership brings its own benefits.

We have to continue to deliver our message to inform people just how good we are.

We expect the revenue increase to continue though the rest of this decade and beyond.