Carlos Ghosn Market Quotations

Russia has been a very successful market for Nissan and we see great prospects for the future. Russia is an important part of our global growth strategy. This investment demonstrates our confidence in the high potential of the Russian economy.

I have never been too bullish on the US market and have been looking for signs of the end, and if this trend continues into November I am afraid this may be the beginning of it.

We don't know where the markets are going, ... We have to observe what's going down, see the trends, look at every vibration on the market, prepare the technology and jump when consumers start to think one way or the other.

We don't know where the markets are going,

We have some worse scenarios for which we need to prepare as companies. For the moment, we're planning for the worst, and the worst is now, and the car market is down more than 15 percent in France. There is so much uncertainty.

The European market is in a very tough situation, where there's no sign of growth in the future.

We are not particularly optimistic about the U.S. market in the next six months and next year.

What we are foreseeing is the situation of the market is not going to be fundamentally different than in 2004,