Art Spinella Quotations

We hope to see a dialog begin that puts educated and aware consumers into energy policy decisions. We undertook this research to see if perceptions (about energy efficiency) were true in the real world.

She got out of tech stocks a year ago and bought a new Beetle. She paid cash for it, and now she's looking at a PT Cruiser.

She got out of tech stocks a year ago and bought a new Beetle, ... She paid cash for it, and now she's looking at a PT Cruiser.

I can easily see Asian automakers grabbing another three or four percentage points next year. I can see them taking 50 percent of the market eventually without breaking a sweat.

If it's priced right, even if the quality is somewhat less than other makes, they'd consider buying (Chinese cars) because Americans love a bargain.

Will that turns to sales? Maybe, maybe not, but the incentives certainly are going to help the consumer come back.

We believe this kind of data is important in a consumer's selection of transportation. Basing purchase decisions solely on fuel economy or vehicle size does not get to the heart of the energy usage issue.

Toyota wound up with this paradox. They're selling a car meant for young people to older people. It's not where they wanted to be.

Flood vehicles can be sold for their parts. There isn't a single vehicle that came out of Katrina that should be sold. They should all be scrapped.

It would have to be an entry-level model, like the Hyundai Excel. It would take low price and some style, though low price triumphs over style any time.

Somebody was going to do it. Mitsubishi is in dire straits. This is as good an idea as any.

This plan is five years late. But I guess it's better late than never.

They're simply postponing the acquisition of a full-size sport/utility until they see what happens with gas prices,

It is working. It's absolutely essential that they keep it up. We're seeing it on the floor traffic.

Do I want to see a subdivision or a gun club? Honestly - I would want a gun club.

The Bill Ford ads really address the problem that Ford has, which is being pretty stodgy as a company. What the ads do is raise awareness of the brand. How positively they do it is up to the ads, but people do like them.

The market changed as it often does. Frequently, that means Detroit gets left behind. It never fails.

The difference between what Detroit goes through and what Toyota goes through is that for every single problem Toyota has, they put a team on to fix it. Detroit pretends it doesn't exist.

The Japanese are starting to get worried about the Korean brands for the same reasons the domestics worried about the Japanese. The Japanese are looking over their shoulders right now.