The Patriot can end up cannibalizing or competing with vehicles in the Jeep lineup and not provide the incremental volume that they hope it does.

So far, the perceived gas price increases have not had any discernible impact on new-vehicle buying patterns, as least with regard to the size of the engine.

She's competing a little harder and taking it little more serious than last year. She's doing a nice job.

I'm not the one who writes the lineup.

Saturn has been a laggard when it comes to new vehicles, so expanding the lineup is a good sign. One of the criticisms is that GM targeted Saturn to fight the Japanese but without expanding the lineup, they've lost buyers.

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