How's this for insult?

[roadrunnerman]

In the small town i live in, we used to have 3 car dealers.DODGE,ford,and a chevy dealer.along with the usual used car lots. The ford dealer moved away several years ago. Heard arumor a couple weeks ago, but it was confirmed today when i had to p/u a part that i ordered, that the chevy dealer across the road bought the dodge dealer and they are in the process of getting the 2 systems to co-incide. It will still be a dodge dealer, It will just have the new owners name attached to it. Don't really care for the other guy, he's kinda on the arrogant side.

 

[sleger]

same thing in my town the chevy/dodge under one owner two sise by side sites..

 

[snakeyes]

be thankful its one or two of the top 3 instead of all imports :urkidding:some chevrolet lost theres and then became kia some dodge became hyundai or another asian type:angry1:

 

[Propwash]

Same scenario in my town but worse Roger. The Toyota dealership took over the Dodge Dealership. For years all they sold was Toyota's and those Plastic Toasters on Wheels called "Scions". Ah well, at least with Dodge I guess they're finally selling decent vehicles for once..When I drove by the other day, in their showroom was a Dart, a Charger and a Challenger lined up. Thought I was born a bit too late to ever see something like that.

 

[Bruzilla]

I laugh every time I see a Scion. I keep hearing how trendy and cool they are, but Americans don't realize what they are: delivery trucks! I saw them everywhere I went in Japan for years, and they're just low-end compact delivery trucks, which is why they are designed that way. And the one that was selling that had the too-cool missing C-pillar on the passenger side, that C-pillar was removed because in Japan that's the driver's side, and delivery drivers have to deal with congested street traffic and removing the C-pillar makes it easier for them to pull out into traffic from the left side of the road.

 

[sublimegtx]

In my area there are two dealers that cover almost every kind of car. One has local shops that sell, buick, chevy, ford, gmc, honda, hyundai, lexus, mazda, nissan, scion, subaru, toyota, and vw. the other has all the chrysler, inc. fiat, jeep,, chev, nissan, subaru, mitsubishi, lincoln merc, and suzuki. WTF??

 

[egrand1508]

My town lost all of them. The Ford dealer was the last to go this past September. Have to go at least 20 miles to buy a new car. Our city took a real hit with sales tax revenue. There is a town just east of us that the closest Ford dealer for them is 40 miles away.

 

[snakeoil24]

Down sizing is hurting all of us. Everywhere you go it is the same story, the country really is hurting, with the clown in the White House expect it to be harder and harder as more companies move off shore to avoid High taxes and relentless regulation.

 

[Roadbird]

Down sizing is hurting all of us. Everywhere you go it is the same story, the country really is hurting, with the clown in the White House expect it to be harder and harder as more companies move off shore to avoid High taxes and relentless regulation.

How True.

 

[Budnicks]

shared expenses

I worked for a family owned dealership group H.G. Automotive with 4 units in Concord Ca. area, they expanded to Walnut Creek Ca. with 3 more shortly there after, then eventually they went public & owned a large dealership group 125 units 1st American Automotive, I owned a construction & consultation/facility management company, that was building & maintaining automotive dealerships, all over the southwest & western US, for 20+ years, for this group, we/they had every brand & make you can think of... It's pretty common for a family or groups to have many different labels/brands under one ownership/management, it far cheaper & easier to run in the long run, for buying power, flooring costs, parts dept. &/or service dept., shipping/transport, accounting/payroll, human resources, multiple different insurance costs, tooling costs, equipment costs, banking, financing & lending power, computer software &/or hardware & other related automotive computer systems etc., with much less upper management payroll costs & much less day to day ownership interferences too, especially if they have multiple dealerships spread out over a city or area/county/state... Regardless of Brand or Make, American or Foreign, cost of doing business is far cheaper, better for profit, shared expences... With many Domestic brands, a few Foreign brands will share all kinds of tooling, equipment, software & suppliers... Many are combined Domestic/Foreign in house or under one roof, brings more people in one location, with more product or diverse inventory, to choose from.... when they did the Chrysler restructuring govt. supervised bankruptcy deal in 2008, the Dodge dealership here in Sonora lost their Dodge franchise, they were Dodge/KIA/Jeep combined, it's a just used car & consignment car/trailer/RV lot basically now, we still have a family owned Sonora Ford dealership under new ownership now, a family owned Sonora Subaru dealership & a family owned GM/Chevy dealership a town over, in Jamestown Ca., most people just either go to Jackson Ca. 40+ mile away, which use to have a bunch of new car dealerships & a new auto-mall {it's just a big vacant business complex now & a Big Church in one of the old dealerships, most are closed now}, or the people go to Modesto Ca. 60-70+ miles away or Stockton 70-80+ miles or Sacramento Ca. 100-110+ miles away to get better deals, service &/or to do new purchases now especially, it sucks royally, for the Dodge/Chrysler even the KIA owners, they do still have a skeleton Parts dept. & tech. crew, nothing like they were.... I'm glad I do all my own work...

 

[YY1]

Kinda like wal-mart?

...and...


scion=toyota+subaru.....seriously.

 

[67 coronet]

vegas is nuts for dealers.at least 3 of each of the common types.we have an auto mall with 19 dealers selling 26 diff brands.its huge!makes it easy for my shop to find parts though.