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

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

This proposal gives automakers another excuse to not make the cars that people want ones that use available technology to save consumers money at the gas pump and cut pollution. Making our cars and trucks go farther on a gallon of gas is the biggest single step we can take to save money at the gas pump, cut oil dependence, and curb global warming. - Dan Becker

This is the second year of a downturn but profits have been rising... However, the climate is more challenging. They used to say you could make any money from the small car market but automakers have proved otherwise. - John Lawson

This is a great demonstration of the increased awareness and availability of renewable Fuels such as E85. With automakers like General Motors producing an abundance of flexible-fuel vehicles, we can help boost our country's agriculture industry, save the environment, and reduce our dependence on petroleum. - Jim Richardson