Despite the difficult economic environment for retailers (See: "Retailers Crawl Into New Year"), the company said low prices and strong international sales drove the quarter's results.
And you only have to look under the hood or crawl beneath the car to see a technological nightmare: A low-compression flathead V-8, cloth wrapped wires, a crude carburetor, leaf springs and no shocks, big mechanical brakes that were about as useful as an anchor, and a differential the size of a melon, to appreciate that this car was a polluting, rattling, death trap.