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...George Pipas, Ford sales analyst, acknowledges that Ford is more dependent on sales of large pickup trucks than its rivals. Fully 30 % of Ford's sales are in the pickup segment, while pickups account for only 22% of General Motors Corp, sales, 14% of the Chrysler Group sales and only 5% sales at Toyota, which outsold Ford in total vehicle sales for the first time ever in July."It's not that our sales are down more than anybody else's. Actually they're not. But they whole segment is down and it hurts us more,"says Pipas, who notes...
...Thomas LaSorda, Chrysler Group's chief executive officer, also notes that 40% of pickup trucks are sold via big discounts."You can still move the market with incentives. We've protected our share but its become more expensive,"LaSorda says. In addition, the competition in the segment is also about to get tougher as GM launches a new truck this fall and Toyota puts its new truck in showroom floors in January, LaSorda says...
...down the creative process. There's a scene in the first season in which eventual winner Jay McCarroll, stuck trying to draw up a design that is classic and tasteful while reflecting his flamboyant style, looks out the window and sees the burnished Art Deco crown of Manhattan's Chrysler Building, which he reinterprets as a dress. It's a better, more succinct illustration of creative inspiration than most novels and movies about artists manage. "That was a magic moment," says Lipsitz. "At best, we want to show that the way the individual characters see the world translates into their...
...private sailing yacht in America, “a 72-foot yawl, which was the finest boat that money could buy.”Swett and Cunningham, both interested in sailing, accepted.Swett says that he remembered his surprise when he first met Brown.“The chauffeur-driven Chrysler drove up to Thayer South and out came Brown, just bouncing and smiling, full of enthusiasm,” recalls Swett. “He also brought an icebox, a rug, pictures to put on the walls and eventually a sofa.”“His mother...
When General Motors asked Bob Lutz to revive its product line in 2001, the thinking was that if anyone could do it, he was the man. The charismatic, brash ex-Marine fighter pilot had led the development at Chrysler of such hot cars as the Dodge Viper and PT Cruiser, and he wasn't shy about criticizing GM for cranking out the dullest metal in Detroit...