
| Cautionary Statement Forward-Looking StatementsThis presentation includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements, including statements regarding anticipated financial results, the company’s 2006 outlook, anticipated firming of the retail used vehicle market, future volumes and acquisition pipeline are subject to certain risks, trends, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The statements are based on assumptions about important factors including: trends in new and retail used vehicle sales and incentives, including wholesale used vehicle pricing; economic conditions, including fuel prices; weather, Canadian exchange rate and interest rate fluctuations; competition, litigation developments, trends in the vehicle remarketing industry; corporate development activities, including acquisitions; investments in technology, general business conditions, vehicle production and the other risk factors described in the company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, and other risks described from time to time in the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Many of these risk factors are outside of the company’s control, and as such, they involve risks that are not currently known to the company that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed or implied herein. The forward-looking statements in this document are made as of the date hereof and the company does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements.This presentation includes certain non-GAAP measures. These non-GAAP measures are reconciled to the most directly comparable GAAP measures in Appendix 2 to this presentation. |