January is easily the slowest selling month of the year. We don't want the inventory situation to get ahead of us.

I think it's going to be another solid car year, for both Ford and the industry.

This is the first year we have the Fusion in our lineup. So the prudent thing for Ford to do is lower Five Hundred production so we don't end up with an excess inventory of that car at year's end and be forced to sell Five Hundreds not bought by retail customers to daily rental fleets at a [large] discount. We'll probably sell fewer Five Hundreds in its second full year on the market than we did in its first full year.

We've already had a dangerous situation in January with a number of grass fires. But the month I dread is March.

But I'll probably only look at that in January. It'd have to be a permanent situation if I make any decision.

We're talking about inventory that would have shipped in the last month and would have appeared in PCs shipping around Thanksgiving, ... You're running smack into the holiday shopping season.