25 Quotes by Rod Lache

It's the worst thing that can happen if you're trying to launch a new product.

Dana is struggling to obtain secured bank financing and a bank deal may not materialize. We remain concerned that Dana will be unable to overcome weak demand outlooks.

It's an exaggeration to say they took Neon guts and built a truck over it, but took a lot of things in that platform and modified it.

Investors will have fresh questions about the feasibility of the company's $1 billion material cost savings goal in 2006. This is clearly a bad situation, but maybe not as bad as it originally appears.

I don't see this as resulting in anything dramatically negative. Over time, you'll see incentives rising everywhere. But it's not anything scary yet.

This is no big surprise. It's been rumored for some time. As far as share price, I think it depends on who they put in there. Right now there's a vacuum. If they put someone in who is shareholder-oriented, it should help.

The Firestone name is horribly damaged and it's definitely not clear they can survive the damage.