80 Quotes by Paul Ballew

I can't say I'd be surprised if industry ran 17 million units in April. Would I be surprised if it ran at 18? Yes I would.

From a competitive standpoint, we're better than anybody else ? you can look at it from any performance metric. We're king of the hill.

I expect October to be a bit rocky.

GM leads the segment, leads the category in terms of fuel economy and is committed to improvement in fuel economy going forward,

We've exceeded the sales estimate for the month. We turned the production at a very healthy pace.

Underlying demand remains very strong. The first four months of the year certainly exceeds our forecasts and the forecasts of everyone else in the industry.

We look at this every which way and we really cannot find evidence of some seismic change in consumer behavior,

I wouldn't say it was driven by the March results, but our reading about where consumers are at.

It appears the industry is running at a very strong rate, ... It's a very slight step down from the very blistering start we started the year with, but it's still a strong pace. There are legitimately headwinds, like higher energy prices and a general slowing of the economy. But we caution against overreacting to the headwinds.