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southern MN | I don't think many dealers in the USA have said - probably hoping things will change over the next year, or see what happens this week with the bankruptsy & it can be all different after that anyhow.
Guess they need more volume per store to make things work, but I still don't quite see it. Out in the rural areas, dealer can be few and far between. A lot of sales will go to other brands, if the local 'been there forever' dealer is shut down. If those small town dealers were making money, and been a loyal dealer with loyal customers for 67 years (one was on the 10:00 news that said theyt were being pulled tonite) I don't understand how cutting one of the major businesses out of a small town & alienating long-time customers is going to help pull them and the whole USA ecconomy out of all the problems.
GM got fat & lazy and accumulated too much baggage from agreeing to labor requests. Cutting dealers & sales doesn't seem to be a reasonable answer that addresses the problem.
Chrysler got into a short-line situation, where they can't retool into different consumer market quick enough - thier market was bigger gassier vehicles. Which we all will want again in 4 years, but for the short term, they are hosed.
I do understand consolidating dealers, and I do understand getting rid of the dead wood. In my town there is a Buick/ Pontiac dealer with a newer building, and a Chevy dealer with an older building & pretty small inventory. Of _course_ one of those is going to be closed, it only makes sense to combine those. My understanding is a neighboring dealer was already taking over the Chevy place; but sounds like the neighboring dealer is one being shut down as well, so who knows what's going on. Probably everyone else in town, I don't hang in the right circles..... ;)
Just pulling out entirely from a bigger geographic area - that I don't really understand. Small town ecconomics are different than big town, and someone will fill that need and make it work. Abandoning a sales territory - I just don't quite get it.
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Are you losing or keeping your local GM dealer?
