"James "Jim" Padilla" was an United States of America/American automobile industry executive. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, attending the University of Detroit and earning bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical engineering and a Master of Economics/master's degree in economics. He is also a Distinguished Eagle Scout.

Padilla joined the Ford Motor Company in 1966, starting as a quality-control engineer. Padilla was promoted to management in product engineering and manufacturing in 1976 and later became director of engineering and manufacturing for Jaguar Cars, director of performance luxury vehicles, and president of South American operations. He became group vice president for global manufacturing and quality and president of North and South America operations before being named President and chief operating officer of the company. He retired in April, 2006.

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No more timid cars.

We are working with multiple suppliers and alternatives, ... We recognize that the ramp-up phase is very critical for suppliers and for ourselves to get economies of scale.

I don't think it went wrong. None of us anticipated the aggressive pricing in the marketplace.

It is a supply issue, and it's supply of several technologies, ... The Japanese have shown a little bit of a predatory approach.

We think we're at a reasonable level at this point. We don't have any explosive plan to go out and hack away. We've taken a lot of whacks at that. Right now we're looking to get stability -- stability in our product cycle, stability in our manpower, stability in our plant situation.

We will be aggressive. We will address costs. We will address our footprint as a business. We will address capacity.

We expect comparable changes.

We have to be very aggressive in terms of controlling costs.

One thing I am looking forward to is laying this out and getting all of our people focused on delivering this piece of what we have to do. This speculation does not help us with our unions and our people in the development centers.