44 Quotes by George Pipas

We're not where we want to be or where we need to be but we are improving.

I think the next couple months will be pretty choppy. It will probably be November before we can think about trend sales rates again.

Last May was a huge SUV month -- the sixth best ever for Ford,

I think that impact of that program is not as strong as when it was first announced, ... Zero percent financing was like a tidal wave and you had to get on the wave or you'd be swept under. But I think the program is still perceived as having a lot of value.

January sales were better than we expected at the beginning of the month. We expected them to be down 15 to 20 percent.

January is easily the slowest selling month of the year. We don't want the inventory situation to get ahead of us.

Our goal is to increase market share in 2003. There's a long way to go...but this is a good start.

Our base planning assumption was not predicated on unemployment going down,

Some of the feedback we got was there was less traffic, but people who were there were people there buying cars and trucks.