Too many dealers [Source: Detroit Free Press]

With as many grains of salt to suit taste. Consider that the 'writer'
doesn't know the diff between 'less' and 'fewer'......
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...General Motors, Ford and Chrysler have far too many retail outlets
relative to the number of vehicles they sell. A new study by CNW
Marketing Research has now tried to quantify the dollar cost of that
excess and come up with $3.9 billion, or $436 per vehicle. The three US
carmakers have 15,741 dealers between them, while the Japanese
carmakers have less than 4,000.

Domestic dealers, on average, sell less than half as many vehicles per
store annually than a Japanese brand dealer, and most sell far less
than that. The extra cost comes from items like having to deliver
vehicles to so many outlets, advertising support for dealers and the
administrative costs associated supporting them all. For years, the
domestics have been trying to find a way to reduce their dealer counts,
but state franchise laws make it almost impossible for the carmakers to
get rid of dealers until they want out themselves. Unfortunately, the
Starbucks model of a coffee shop on every corner just doesn't work for
car retailing.

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In our area, before Ford dropped him, my cousin dropped Ford. Now he has
just two stores - one GMC/Chevrolet and one Nissan. Thirty-five years with
Ford done. He says the writing on the wall for Ford is writ large.
john

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> With as many grains of salt to suit taste. Consider that the 'writer'
> doesn't know the diff between 'less' and 'fewer'......
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> Autoblog http://snipr.com/1ndp3
>
> ..General Motors, Ford and Chrysler have far too many retail outlets
> relative to the number of vehicles they sell. A new study by CNW
> Marketing Research has now tried to quantify the dollar cost of that
> excess and come up with $3.9 billion, or $436 per vehicle. The three US
> carmakers have 15,741 dealers between them, while the Japanese
> carmakers have less than 4,000.
>
> Domestic dealers, on average, sell less than half as many vehicles per
> store annually than a Japanese brand dealer, and most sell far less
> than that. The extra cost comes from items like having to deliver
> vehicles to so many outlets, advertising support for dealers and the
> administrative costs associated supporting them all. For years, the
> domestics have been trying to find a way to reduce their dealer counts,
> but state franchise laws make it almost impossible for the carmakers to
> get rid of dealers until they want out themselves. Unfortunately, the
> Starbucks model of a coffee shop on every corner just doesn't work for
> car retailing.
>
> [Source: Detroit Free Press] http://snipr.com/1ndp5
>
>
>
>
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>> > Reported to: , ,
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>> And they are very tired of you.
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> Message-ID: >
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> Yes, there's a bitch that replies to me, kinda telling me the
> problem's with the Canadian Shaw's personnel. But prescience pays off and
> long as you violate the groups charter, or just Usenet's common decency,
> I'll be there to report you. You being a traitor is a especial incentive.
>