Mike Aberlich Quotations

Just talking about (the discounts), it was clear that if we were going to come with an employee pricing program, we had to make it better, and/or when we started talking about it we needed to do it in a different way.

The contract runs out next year. We're examining several options.

This really only happened in the last couple weeks.

It's becoming harder and harder to make that claim there's a 'Big Three'. We're a different company than we used to be -- we're not just Chrysler. With the global automotive world, it's no longer a neat package of Detroit over in this corner, everyone else in that corner. The significance is questionable what it means. All we can do is try to continue to grow profitably, that's what we're going to try to continue to do.

Once they open an investigation like this, they send us a summary, usually from one to six weeks later, outlining what they want. Have there been reports of injuries or deaths? Yes, but it's not clear they're all from the same thing.

The investigation is continuing with a sense of urgency as it should, but there is no indication that NHTSA is saying this is a huge issue.

Investigations like this open every day. I'm not trying to minimize it, just trying to put in to context.