List of Dealership to close

I already drive fifty miles, but its California and I like to drive.

 

Wait till you see the GM list. They will be reducing by 42%

 

Food for thought;

Chrysler employs roughly 23,000 people to build their vehicles.

Chrysler Dealerships employ 144,000 to sell these vehicles.

Chrysler sold 1 million non-fleet vehicles last year. 500,000 to fleets.

90% of vehicles were sold at 50% of dealerships.

As consumers we owe less loyalty to the dealerships themselves than we tend to owe to specific Managers within those dealerships, nearly always a service manager being the person of choice. It's their JOB to maintain loyalty like that so it's probably no surprise. So if your favorite dealership with your favorite service manager is closing, just ask him to tell you where he lands.

Seems simple enough to me ... they have too many people selling too few cars. They could eliminate 77,000 employees at dealerships and only lose 5% of their dealership sales (sales that would likely go to another dealership anyway). Jobs not withstanding, the fiscal health of the company is extremely bad. A combination of excessive Union costs and excess sales force costs is a huge contributor to strain on the company's fiscal health. The other automakers of foreign companies are NOT required and indeed are not granting the same benefits to their American workers. Also note that the foreign automakers employ more Americans than the goddamn American automakers do. Go figure.

IMO, slash all the jobs, burn the union to the ground, create a company with a sustainable healthy base that is going to grow demand with quality products and an efficient workforce. That's better that creating jobs on the back of a broken horse waiting for it to collapse and die at any stride. It's safer for the workers, it's more profitable for investors, and better for the overall economy. Cut out the cancer, suffer through recovery, live a healthy life afterward.

That is all, carry on.

 

Could not of said it any better and your basically dead on. I called my Service Manager Chris at Waco Dodge yesterday and told him I would do anything to make sure he stays employed there or elsewhere. I wrote up a few letters of gratitude for his very good service he has given me and how he always took care of the Jeep when the local Waco Jeep dealership failed me. We shop for these types of people and when you find them and they leave it really turns you upside down.

 

As I thought, my dealer is NOT on this list. And for great reason, they ROCK!

 

You should get a free lube job for that plug:huglove:

 

So many snarky smart ass comments, so many teeth to lose.



I know a lot of us in NorCal use Greg Rasmussen at Central Valley Dodge/Jeep. We lurve him I drive 90 miles for his service, he's great! The service managers in the bay area can chew my funky sack. I've never seen such widespread apathy and disregard for customers as in the bay area. It's pathetic that we pay these guys millions of dollars a year buying their cars and they just shaft us on service.

Greg has saved me thousands of dollars servicing my car under warranty ... even for some shit I broke myself :baby::baby:

 

lol