Kurt Sanger Quotations

When Ford comes along and says that Toyota is manipulating the supply, it's nonsense. Toyota developed it all. Toyota does a lot of it in-house. Someone is pointing a finger at Bill Ford saying, Why don't you make more hybrids? So he has to point the finger at someone else.

Overall, we see good growth at the Big Three (Toyota, Nissan and Honda) over the next two years.

Lithium-ion's capacity to hold a charge declines over time -- they start aging the minute they're off the production line.

Management did all they could to confirm the positives that are to come, and the market seems to be accepting that.

Will they displace Mercedes and BMW? The reality is it may be hard. They're just taking Toyotas and selling them somewhere else.

Will they displace Mercedes and BMW? The reality is it may be hard, ... They're just taking Toyotas and selling them somewhere else.

Will they displace Mercedes and BMW? The reality is, it may be hard, ... They're just taking Toyotas and selling them somewhere else.

Forget the cars; the battery is what they are after.

In times of yen weakness, Lexus is just a treasure chest,

Honda doesn't get the acclaim and the free press that Toyota enjoys, but look at the fuel economy ranking tables as many years back as you want, and it's always at the top.

I am not sure that it is such a lay up for Toyota. If G.M. is going to grow 15-20 percent in China, they are not going to roll over.

A lot depends on how you drive them,

The currency certainly does help, We are closer to the long-term yen dollar rate than we were last year.