Mark LaNeve Quotations

When we are on consumers' shopping lists, we like our chances.

Given that the industry came in somewhat below our initial expectations, we are pleased that our retail sales were in line with the targets established in our North America turnaround plan.

Given the strong consumer demand for these great new vehicles, we're feeling good about our decision to increase and pull ahead production.

GM is proud to support Cure Autism Now's innovative research programs and partner with an organization that is aggressively working to make a better life for individuals affected by autism. WALK NOW events provide a wonderful venue for Chevrolet to highlight our commitment to families and to showcase new products such as the hot HHR crossover. The Gala is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us to align the Cadillac brand with a marquee event, celebrating a ground-breaking organization.

People may wait, thinking our prices will get better. They won't get better.

Starting right now, we are going to communicate a clear, simple message: In more segments, with more brands, GM has great product at a great price, and, in many cases, we have the best product at the best price.

While February was a challenging month for all certified GM brands, GM Certified Used Vehicles, the industry's top-selling certified brand, increased sales by 3 percent from January and continues to set the pace for all manufacturers in the category.

While December was a difficult comparison for us and other manufacturers, by any measure it still was a solid sales month. We're particularly pleased with the recovery in our sport utility and full-size pickup business. It gives us renewed confidence as we prepare to launch new vehicles into these key segments in 2006.

We've made this clear to the dealers. Chevy's got to compete heads-up with Ford and Toyota and all the mainstream parts of the market, and Cadillac needs to have everything it can to compete with BMW, Mercedes and Lexus. The other brands need to be tightly focused.

We've made this clear to the dealers, ... Chevy's got to compete heads-up with Ford and Toyota and all the mainstream parts of the market, and Cadillac needs to have everything it can to compete with BMW, Mercedes and Lexus. The other brands need to be tightly focused.

We know it?s not going to be easy, and that?s why we?re going to fight for every sale.

We want to attract people with our features and our quality, not just the latest wad of cash on the hood.

We knew going into September that it would be challenging given continued inventory constraints and compared to exceptionally strong year-ago results.

We're very aware of fuel prices and the effect they have on our business, especially full-size trucks,

These changes will strengthen the VSSM team and help us further develop bench strength for the future.

Dealers tell us they can't keep them on the lot, with vehicles staying in inventory less than a week on average.

Dealers, consumers and third parties have reacted very enthusiastically to these segment-leading new vehicles. Sales, production, inventory turn rates and dealer orders are all ahead of plan. It's January, it's early, but we're optimistic that these great new products will be successful.

There's a very strong sense of urgency to show improved results now.

There's a strong sense of urgency to have better results in 2006 and improve on those in 2007.

It's fair to say we haven't been real tightly focused on what segments we wanted to compete in.

It's early, but we're optimistic these great new products will be successful.

Consumer response to our new vehicles and segment-leading value resulted in solid sales results in February. Our retail sales improvement in February was driven by our industry-leading value, not by fleet sales or high incentives. This resulted in better retail sales performance by six of our divisions.

It's still early, but we're exceeding all of the important targets for our new full-size SUVs, particularly the Tahoe, which is the first one to arrive in dealerships.

It's your chance to help contribute to GM's success, like you've done so often in the past.

Any time you have new product, you get better pricing.

Hindsight being 20/20, I probably wouldn't have done it.