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The folks dumping full-size SUVs were moving to minivans at a higher rate than ever before.

John Krafcik

One thing we know how to do at Ford is to make great vehicles that help people. So far, we've identified more than 165 trucks, vans and SUVs to offer the relief effort for as long as they're needed.

Bill Ford

They've been skilled in their product development. But they, like their domestic competitors, are very dependent on light truck profitability. They've introduced some new S.U.V.'s at a point when that market is under a cloud.

Scott Sprinzen

It was good year for car sales overall, but GM, Ford suffered particularly because of the collapse of their big SUVs.

Dave Healy

There's no net advantage for kids in SUVs than kids in passenger cars. I suspect that will run counter to most peoples' assumptions.

Dr. Dennis Durbin

Smaller SUV's are a very strong growth segment. There's no doubt in my mind that this is a good product.

Stephen Cheetham

The profits won't be as great. It's going to have to come from crossover SUVs or its passenger car lineup.

Joseph Phillippi

Children riding in SUVs were no safer in crashes than those riding in passenger cars.

Dr. Dennis Durbin

I don't think we will see any great exodus from full-size SUVs. They're just too functional.

Carl Sewell

We think some of the trends from '05 will continue into '06, especially the trouble with SUVs.

Bob Schulz

It's not that SUVs are bad. It's just that the evidence is not so clear that they are obviously superior.

Dr. Dennis Durbin

Women often make the decision on SUVs and if they can, they will downsize.

Jerry Reynolds

We'd be in Chapter 11 if we hadn't made so much money on SUVs in the 1990s.

George Pipas

We've seen interest in SUVs decline over the last couple of years.

Rob Callender

This will be a big positive because there is a migration taking place from traditional SUVs to something that has the same feeling but is not as big. It provides a destination for all the defectors who don't want SUVs anymore.

Jim Sanfilippo

There's plenty of gas, but everybody and his brother went and filled up everything from SUVs to go-karts.

Bill Cloud

The only downside is that they're not as big as SUVs and can't go off road as much.

Brian Moody

Within an hour after Sandra got involved, we had five SUVs and a truck.

Nick Papatonis

[Sales of SUVs especially] have been taking it on the chin, ... That phenomenon has pretty much run its course. They powered the industry for close to 10 years.

Joe Phillippi

The highest value for oil is going to be feedstocks for chemicals, ... It's pretty much indefensible to just burn it in SUVs.

George Whitesides

Consumers are driving hard bargains on SUVs, forcing manufacturers to offer a record amount of incentives on vehicles and pushing down net price even further through assertive shopping.

Jane Liu

I think you can say they're back. During the '90s, it was SUVs. In the '80s, it was minivans. So people had moved away from the small cars. It's definitely, since the '70s, the most new small cars on the market.

Mike Dawson

People have burned SUVs, ... Nobody's done that to a hybrid - yet. But if they keep giving special privileges to one type of vehicle, there could be a backlash.

Walter Mcmanus

People rely too much on four-wheel drive. They think that's the fail safe, be-all and end-all solution. And you wind up seeing more four-wheel SUVs (than other cars) in the ditch.

Tom O'donnell

When you look at medium vs. large SUVs, I think there is already a lot of back-and-forth shopping and buying between those segments, and that will continue.

Sam Pack

Sales of gas-inefficient large SUVs are in a state of near-collapse this month, ... It seems likely that the shift in the sales mix away from large SUVs will persist and continue to damage Detroit's profit margins in the process.

David Healy

When you look at the contrast between compacts and full-size (SUVs), it has to be driven in part by gas prices, ... Why else would there be such polarity?

Tom Kontos

Those are people who are cooking in the backs of vans, SUVs and vehicles.

David Bradford

Our hybrid SUVs allow customers to have their SUVs and be responsible at the same time, and we've seen (demand) really accelerate since Katrina.

Jim Press

There is no formula for who smuggles the cash. We've caught young men and grandmas and mothers with kids in the car. They drive up in old beat-up trucks and Volvo SUVs. Every case is different.

Mark Pacheco

When most people are traveling, they are thinking about trips with their families and the larger SUVs have the most room for people and their belongings.

Charlie Vogelheim

(The) four SUVs surrounded the accident. She saw one photographer come out of his car and start snapping away.

Marcel Pariseau

The owners who like Tahoe love the new one. It's much more polished. But I do think the pool of those buying big SUVs is shrinking.

Alan Starling

(Gas prices) aren't going to stop people from buying what they want, ... Some people are keeping their SUVs and trucks to haul their campers and boats and then they buy a more fuel-efficient car to drive to and from work.

Don Freeman

[Gas prices, which hit a national average of $2.61 a gallon this week, are affecting sales of large pickups and SUVs] around the margins, ... We're not really seeing a wholesale change in buying patterns.

Deborah Silverman

We assumed, as I think most consumers do, that because of the larger size and heavier weight of the SUVs, that they would naturally be safer.

Dr. Dennis Durbin

We reiterate our concern about the profit drag from selling fewer SUVs.

Robert Barry

The breadth of products means customers don't have to compromise when accommodating their lifestyle choices, and vehicle-wide improvements increase the capability of the new vehicles in exactly the ways that drive customers to full-size SUVs.

Gary White

SUVs are becoming more popular as family vehicles because they can accommodate multiple child safety seats and their larger size may lead parents to believe SUVs are safer than passenger cars. However, people who use an SUV as their family vehicle should know that SUV's do not provide superior protection for child occupants.

Dennis Durbin

We believe soaring gasoline prices after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are leading to an accelerating decline in demand for S.U.V.'s, ... disproportionate reliance on S.U.V.-related earnings.

Scott Sprinzen

It isn't that people aren't buying SUVs -- they've shifted their segment preference into mid-size and small SUVs, and now into hybrid SUVs.

Jim Press

Automakers have engineered numerous new safety technologies into SUVs over the past several model years to prevent rollovers.

Eron Shosteck

SUVs have an exceptional safety record and are safer than, or as safe as, cars in the vast majority of crashes.

Eron Shosteck

(Crossovers) are putting a dent in demand for SUVs. The designs of these vehicles are fresh and something different and they are capturing consumer's attention.

Erich Merkle

People moan and groan, but they still go to the pump and fill up their big SUVs.

Edward Leamer