This is an event unlike any other in the Northwest,

The trucks have more content, but we offset the cost with some savings elsewhere. It's not thousands of dollars more.

Words are just words and nobody told these people to do anything like that, ... The leadership of the Christian Knights regrets the burning of the churches and regrets anybody's taken their ideas and tried to use them as justification for their actions.

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.

[All these improvements cost money, however. White says GM was able to offset some of the added cost of upgrades in fuel economy and handling with efficiencies in purchasing and assembly. But that doesn't cover the whole tab.] The trucks have more content, but we offset the cost with some savings elsewhere, ... It's not thousands of dollars more.

[GM and other auto makers also will be hard-pressed to make the $15,000-plus in per-vehicle profits they made back then.] We aren't riding on these [new] vehicles to save the company, ... There are a number of other attractive alternatives in the market.