had a great deal of success with this program. We've set a number of sales records in the past few months, and we thought it was important to extend for the month of September.

[Gas prices, which hit a national average of $2.61 a gallon this week, are affecting sales of large pickups and SUVs] around the margins, ... We're not really seeing a wholesale change in buying patterns.

We love commercial fleet sales (to corporations). They're profitable, and we're not looking to decrease those.

What we've seen over the past few months is a very gradual recovery in retail sales. We're likely to see a continued recovery in coming months, but nothing dramatic.

Many of the factors that have negatively impacted sales over the past year are lessening.

Its comparable sales have been on a tear over the past two year, up 6 percent in 2002 and up 4 percent last year. Sales in the first-half of this year have continued to be strong, and Pink appears to be contributing to it.