it is a very healthy profit on each vehicle for ford, gm or chrysler. >> thank you so much for joiningmes the fun part of the show. we've been asking you all show, if you could by any new car or truck under a hundred k, what would it be? and thank you to everyone for tweeting in some fantastic answers and a few agreed with me. the nissan juke. quirky, fun. the juke beats them all is one of the tweets. audi s6. not even a close second out there. and george is sticking with the good old usa with 2013 ford explorer sport. >> i agree with everybody but the juke. ugliest car on the road. >> we took a poll on "street signs." here are our teams, dream cars. executive producer, what did you say, albert? volvo? >> very safe. >> very safe, albert. have fun in your beige. kevin, in our ear right now. cadillac cts. >> be careful what you say. he is our voice of god. >> great looking car. good selection. jenny, naturally, look at the texan. escalade. she want it sit in the back. how she rolls. producer, acura -- oh, i'm surprise he you went with the two-door. good looking car though. >> jackie with

the big three-- gm, ford and chrysler-- all are out with new 2013 models or concept pickups that will start hitting showrooms over the next few years. the three are fierce competitors in the full-size pickup segment where profit margins are larger compared to cars. jeffries auto analyst peter nesvold says automakers make $12,000 to $15,000 in profit for each full-size truck they sell. >> to put that into perspective, small cars might be anywhere from $2,000 to maybe $4,000. so when you get that shift towards trucks, that's quite powerful to earnings. >> reporter: g.m. has two new models, the chevy silverado and g.m.c. sierra. >> the truck margins are still certainly strong for us; they continue to be for the entire industry. and with this new truck, that'll be no different, but it's still a great value for the customer. >> reporter: even with the higher margins, buyers may find some deals as truck makers work to move older inventory off their lots. pickup trucks made up about 11% of the u.s. market last year, well below the historical averages. the ford f150 has been the best- selling

the big three-- gm, ford and chrysler-- all are out with new 2013 models or concept pickups that will start hitting showrooms over the next few years. the three are fierce competitors in the full-size pickup segment where profit margins are larger compared to cars. jeffries auto analyst peter nesvold says automakers make $12,000 to $15,000 in profit for each full-size truck they sell. >> to put that into perspective, small cars might be anywhere from $2,000 to maybe $4,000. so when you get that shift towards trucks, that's quite powerful to earnings. >> reporter: g.m. has two new models, the chevy silverado and g.m.c. sierra. >> the truck margins are still certainly strong for us; they continue to be for the entire industry. and with this new truck, that'll be no different, but it's still a great value for the customer. >> reporter: even with the higher margins, buyers may find some deals as truck makers work to move older inventory off their lots. pickup trucks made up about 11% of the u.s. market last year, well below the historical averages. the ford f150 has been the best- selling

. >> with respect to the auto companies, gm and chrysler, my recollection was that gm maize salary payments. i want to say six or $7 billion. it was like taking money out of one pocket and putting -- paint peter with post-money. can you refresh my memory on that? >> part of the $49.5 billion he received equity in return. purpose preferred shares in approximately $7 billion loan. that loan was repaid the money that came out of the t.a.r.p. escrow account. so the money had gone over to gm, and gm's possession, was a segregated account of funds. c-span: taken a deep breath as a layman when you see this, how are we supposed to understand this? in the end, what is the deal on gm? was the bailout the right thing to do? to the pickup of five? >> guest: this is sort of an example of the government and the treasury department taken a perfectly good story and trying to make it look that identifies for pr purposes, political purposes and as a result you end up with this confused mess that ultimately seems misleading. so what happens here is gm pay back part of islam. persona hook for tens of billions of dollars for general

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gm up 5%. toyota of 9%. chrysler up 10%. a good year or a good december makes for a good year in the overall gear.a look at the year end totals. ford up 4.47% for the year. toyota of 26% for the year. chrysler up 21%. we can also give you the raw numbers. how many vehicles do they really sell? homemade cars they actually sold. gm the winner. ford number two. toyota number three. chrysler bringing up the year, but doing pretty well at 1.7 vehicles sold. a quick look at the stocks, by the way. both automakers of about 2% last i checked. i think that is where we are. good news all around. connell: not bad. not bad at all. jeff flock on the breaking auto news. thank you. we will go back to him a little bit later on. is google going for the king of search to dear leader. the company later expected to go on a mission to north korea. he will travel with bill richardson. since there is no business plan, schmidt will be the first top executive from google to visit north korea. this deal apparently was not the only one interested in buying current tv. they purchased al gore's current call but only after it

initial figures show ford, gm, chrysler, and toyota all meeting or beating their sales forecast.rove off with $14.5 million new vehicles last year and more than $15 million are expected to move this year, quite a comeback. >>> and starbucks, probably no surprise at this point, is expanding. where this time? in asia. the seattle-based company has announced plans to open its first store in vietnam next month. that follows the company's debut in india just a few months ago. starbucks has more than 3,000 stores across asia and vietnam will be the 62nd country in the world where you can get a venti, half cap, skinny latte, or whatever you prefer. >> i like a venti skimmed latte. i would like to learn how to say that in vietnamese. >> we'll check how to say that. >> like a half calf? >> i'm more a straight, black, coffee girl. >> venti skim latte for me. >> well. >>> it's a bird, it's a plane, it's superman, sort of. jeanne moos is next. >>> upstate new york has gotten a lot of snow lately, as it often does this time of year, and that's helped one man create this larger than life snowm

or indirectly. go back to before the bailout you had studies saying that should gm and chrysler fail and damage ford, more than 1 million jobs would be lost going into the recession. what the bailout bought was these two companies remain in the united states producing vehicles and producing rd engineering and technology that they can sell around the world. host: one more call, jacksonville, florida. tony republican line. caller: i was cures to know where we're at with -- curious to know where we are with natural gas. guest: you have some vehicles and some auto makers experimenting with natural gas. chrysler is going to have a few more on the road. the issues with those have been mostly around fueling. honda had a natural gas experiment running for many years in california. it helped you buy the little fueling kit that you can put in the garage but people didn't sign up. they're very clean. they have a decent amount of range. but the cost once again tends to outrun the benefits for most consumers. and while they're popular in lots of other parts of the world, especially foreign countries, latin ameri

gm should be paid a similar amount to a cfo getting paid at chrysler. but romero says that hasn't happened. instead, last year she says treasury approved pay packages of $3 million or more for half of the executives at these companies. listen to this, of the almost 70 executives the government signed off on, all but one received $1 million or more. there is always another side to this, poppy. these pay packages, they seem huge, but these companies are saying, hey, they're necessary to retain top talent. i don't think that argument will fly when you hear about these big pay packages. >> i know these companies came out with responses to this report. general motors said, look, we had 11 profitable quarters since the downfall. they said they complied with t.a.r.p. do we have any sense of what aig is saying in this and the others? >> aig no longer -- the government no longer has any stake in aig. aig is kind of stepping aside. then you talk about gm. gm, the government still owns 19% of gm. and then you look at allied financial, the government owns 74% of that company. so, you know, so when you see this watchdog come out and talk about these things, this is why this kin