Jeff Schuster Quotations

What hybrid owners want is to stand out.

What we're doing is continuing to invest in our automated software quality solutions.

What we're announcing is that Rational Functional Tester is now supporting executions in that shell.

The onslaught is more a competitive response to the success Scion has had attracting buyers than it is a response to fuel prices.

So far, the perceived gas price increases have not had any discernible impact on new-vehicle buying patterns, as least with regard to the size of the engine.

Moving forward, most growth in the SUV segment will come from car-based vehicles.

Paying attention to the changing lifestyles of the consumer is very important. When you have so much competition differentiating your product over others with a little tiny thing that suits (the consumer's) lifestyle may be enough to sway them.

It definitely speaks to the fact that (this) is a global automotive market and to have that global success, you have to reach with all of your brands and not just the Chrysler brand.

We don't see that happening right now. This is an opportunity for GM to unveil some not-so-pleasant news and get it over with, but in the next few years we see sales being relatively strong.

Tivoli is coming out with a new set of technologies around composite application management and what we're announcing here is we're integrating support so that Rational Performance Tester is directly tied to those data collectors.

The Patriot can end up cannibalizing or competing with vehicles in the Jeep lineup and not provide the incremental volume that they hope it does.

We had a pretty turbulent 2005, yet sales still hovered around 17 million. Regardless of the exterior shock to the market, it seems to weather everything. We don't see any pullback (in sales), but we don't see any gains.

Volker Kruger's extensive automotive background adds another valuable asset to our European team. We see tremendous opportunities to better serve clients in Germany and in surrounding areas with the addition of Mr. Kruger.

Competitive pressure means carmakers are compelled to add features, lower prices, and push technology. Consumers get the benefit.

As we enter into the summer months, any benefit on that side is going to be well received.

The new models should provide a slight increase in sales for 18 to 24 months, but after that they should level out again.

It has less of a purely American style.

Gas prices are certainly becoming a popular dinner and water cooler discussion topic, but consumers appear to be conditioned to prices at current levels.

A lot could happen between now and the end of the month. But at this point, we're on track for an October like we haven't seen sine the early 1990s.