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It is as if GM and Ford both walked outside on a rainy day, Ford somehow came back with a suntan, while GM walked back inside soaked.


Jonathan Steinmetz

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VINCE FARRELL There's a lot of things GM and Ford are still grappling with if they're going to adapt to these nich...
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PAUL TAYLOR But nothing like what GM and Ford are going through. Long-term, I think Chrysler's prospects look in...
ERICH MERKLE Peugeot had a bad year but their sales volumes improved. GM and Ford are operating at about their br...
ADAM JONAS Toyota, Honda and BMW continue to do well at the retail level. GM and Ford need to stop their retail...
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DAVE HEALY Toyota's momentum just continues to snowball. If I'm one of the guys running Ford or GM, at this poi...
GORDON WANGERS As I walked back to the huddle, a lot of guys walked up to me and said 'You're back. You're back,'
CHRIS HARRELL That said, we continue to favour GM over Ford due to the former's more favourable 2006 product cycle...
HIMANSHU PATEL That said, we continue to favor GM over Ford due to the former's more favorable 2006 product cycle a...
HIMANSHU PATEL That said, we continue to favor GM over Ford due to the former's more favorable 2006 product cycle, ...
HIMANSHU PATEL Nobody wants to see Toyota come into Detroit and take it over. But if they bring in money, aren't yo...
CASSIE MOORE GM, which chose not to push fleet (in February), saw its market share plummet to just 23.7 percent. ...
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NICK LOBACCARO Ford has always been willing to listen. But the reality is that their products have continued to lag...
JASON MARK The outlook remains poor, ... Production cutbacks at Ford and GM, mediocre personal income growth an...
PETER MORICI When it comes to actual light vehicle sales in North America through mid-November (2005), sales are ...
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GARY CONVIS Lara Ford pitched a decent game; she still walked too many but came up with the big out when she had...
JEFF RODGERS There has been real progress at DaimlerChrysler compared with Ford and GM. They got the job cuts siz...
GAREL RHYS While we give GM a 'B' for effort, this news is not as compelling as it sounds.
SHELLY LOMBARD Japanese auto makers have had to grab market share from GM or Ford, but that's coming to a limit and...
AKIO YOSHINO When people hear the word 'pardon,' they think back to Gerald Ford pardoning Nixon in September 1974...
LARRY SABATO These changes are sure signs that Ford is on offense and fighting back. In fact, our product actions...
CISCO CODINA There's a little bit of anxiety beginning to creep in about earnings. We know how badly the carmaker...
JOHN KINSEY I'm going back to Ford, pal,
JIM LEWIS It would be like when Ford bought Jaguar a while ago and changing its name to Ford-England.
CRAIG JOHNSON GM may have to enter this situation and take a good chunk of Delphi back.
SEAN MCALINDEN I walked down the aisle as Conan the Barbarian and walked back up again as Arnold the Meek.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Aut...
KEVIN O'LEARY Domestic vehicles have made substantial advances, Ford is doing better than GM and Chrysler, but new...
DAVID CHAMPION The mantra inside GM is 'fast start in '04,
GARY COWGER GMAC is in some ways both the instrument for preservation of GM intermediate term and also an instru...
GLENN REYNOLDS GMAC is in some ways both the instrument for preservation of GM intermediate term and also an instru...
GLENN REYNOLDS I walked out of class one day and I never went back.
BURT LANCASTER GM continues to demonstrate bold and innovative leadership in products and technology. On these fron...
BRENT DEWAR On Monday morning, one or two teachers in the portable came in and they noticed fleas jumping up off...
KYLE BORDELON Ford hadn't been up there for a number of years. This was a big chance for Ford and a lot of people ...
DICK JOHNSON Delphi has been trying to sell plants ever since it emerged from GM. A number of investors looked at...
DARON GIFFORD Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' w...
TOM STOPPARD The top level GM guys are so genuinely excited about both cars. GM is particularly excited about the...
CHRIS BRANNON So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors&#...
EDWARD WHITACRE, JR. We walked back the way we came, and even though it was dark there were no lights burning inside the ...
GLENDA MILLARD It will be swamped by the job losses that come out of Ford, GM or Delphi. Theoretically, everybody w...
DONALD GRIMES A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER The idea of a Korean International Trade Association was pretty far from the thoughts of GM back the...
CHRIS PREUSS Tony walked up to him, took his index finger and jammed it into Jim's chest really hard. He came bac...
CHARLIE CREAMER With 1.6 million flex-fuel vehicles already on the market, and new lines of SUVs and trucks to be in...
BILL SAUNDERS When the AFA said that Ford was going to meet their demands, Ford was surprised. They told the AFA o...
LESLIE THOMPSON While 2006 earnings targets appear achievable, we are concerned with the projected sustainability of...
MORGAN STANLEY Reality television. It merged with politics. Then with performance art.” They walked on. “I thin...
WILLIAM GIBSON I had a lot of fun bantering back and forth with Kennedy. But for ease and comfort, it would be Gera...
HELEN THOMAS We'll be staying on top of it, checking in every day with Ford, the state and union people.
DENIS FINLEY They started arguing back and forth … started spitting back and forth, so they left the store. My b...
DAVID HUFFMAN Record market demand in North America and Europe was accompanied by unrelenting competitive pressure...
JACK SMITH Just because we didn't see an event (after GM and Ford) is small comfort. There are large exposures ...
ANDREW LO I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and...
TAMRON HALL A few weeks after my mom passed in November of 2013, I came back from an injury and entered the Egg ...
DAK PRESCOTT In 18 days, Jonathan U should have walked out of that hospital.
CARL CORNWELL A strike would be moot unless they waited until GM was back in production after the Flint strikes. I...
DAVID HEALY And I rose
In rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days...
DYLAN THOMAS Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn’t a country; it’s a near-death experien...
BILL BRYSON It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Our girls came out defensively and hustled. We played with a lot of energy on defense and made thing...
ED PULTZ Ford's commitment to the Ford Tour de Georgia is an essential element in the growth of both the even...
GERARD BISCEGLIA It still needs to be addressed with unions and GM,
CLAUDIA BAUCUS And then there are roads that can't be walked back.
AQUIB ALI As a leader in both hybrid vehicles and in vehicles capable of operating on ethanol-based fuels, For...
ANNE STEVENS The day he walked through the lobby with a live leopard on a leash is the day I threw him out.
EDDI PARKER Even if there were a strike, it would be for a short time and would only have a minimal financial im...
BRAD RUBIN I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
BILLY WILDER IDMS is a set of interfaces and protocols. Before, GM did not have a single system for its dealers t...
NICK BELL We just walked outside and just seen trailers tipping everywhere. It was a mess.
LORI KRENSHAW He carried himself like a military man. They walk a little bit differently than the average person. ...
LEN TOTORA [He points to booming auto sales as proof that consumers are still buying gas guzzlers even in the f...
JACK KYSER So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I w...
JOHN GREEN I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.
JAMES MCBRIDE Cara burst into a hearty laugh. She clapped Richard on the back as he walked passed. "I like her, Lo...
TERRY GOODKIND GM takes no position on the matter.
ALAN ADLER She walked the midway, or she'd sit on a lawn chair outside the popcorn stand.
DAVID DAVIDSON She gave the impression that she had somehow slipped off her leash. As though she was taking herself...
ARUNDHATI ROY He went in and got a tissue, left the room, came right back in and walked up behind her, put his han...
TERRY WINTERS Seven smirked as he walked back over to me. "I gave you catharsis last night. Twice.
T.J. KLUNE I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
BILLY WILDER GM is going to take Saturn up a notch.
JOE BARKER He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while ...
LAINI TAYLOR I've never seen anything like it. The man was flat on the ground with his hands behind his back. (Ba...
CHARLES GREENE She apparently had gotten off the Foothills Trail and had walked a good bit, back and forth.
HENRY GORDON She walked on and on as though if she walked far enough she might walk this thing out of her. As if ...
JACKIE KAY They kind of walked in with a swagger, ... We showed some people on the opposite sideline that we wo...
DAN WALKER It's a good first step. Is it the full answer for GM? No.
GEORGE MAGLIANO I was told today I no longer have a job with GM.
DAVE KEPSEL GM Daewoo is turning out to be a real gem.
DAVID COLE Henry Ford believed the soul of a person is located in their last breath and so captured the last br...
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER They [GM] win,
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JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r...
JONATHAN EDWARDS Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstr...
JONATHAN MILLER Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
JONATHAN GASH Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into...
JONATHAN SWIFT