Automaker Quotes

You're seeing more consumer interest in alternative fuels like natural gas and diesel. In Europe it's already gained a lot of traction. And a lot of automakers are jumping on the hybrid bandwagon. - Mike Chung

While the domestics are still spending far more proportionally, the numbers are not as far off as they had been. Our January sales forecast predicted that domestic automakers earned approximately 54 percent market share of new vehicle sales, and that Japanese, European and Korean automakers would earn 35 percent, 6 percent and 5 percent, respectively. - Jane Liu

While price-cutting has sustained the [sales rate] at the expense of margins, eventually either the [automakers'] capacity to support the market will diminish, and/or consumer demand will contract on its own, as it has in other cycles. - John Casesa

What their engineering folks are telling (the automakers) is they have a real shot at it. - David Cole

We were the first company with a hybrid SUV and the first American automaker to put a hybrid vehicle on the road. Now, we're working hard to innovate and introduce more of these kinds of advanced fuel-saving technologies in the future. - Ann Wright

We encourage automakers to increase production of vehicles with low energy consumption and low emissions. - Jin Renqing

Usually when an automaker doesn't ask for the optional test, we presume it means the side airbags wouldn't help much to improve the car's rating. But now Ford has requested a second test, so the Fusion with side airbags may earn a better rating than poor. We'll conduct the test and report the result. - Adrian Lund

Using the liberal definition of what you include in worldwide sales, GM may not be the biggest automaker a year from now. - Alan Baum

Toyota is looking to do with hybrids what Volvo did with safety, trying to get people to pay more for hybrids. It is very similar to the debate a couple years back, whether you want to have air bags or not. American automakers were fighting it tooth and nail. Volvo got people to pay for it. - Christopher Richter