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List of Dodge Dealers to be Closed

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WOW!!! It is going to be tough to get a Dodge product anywhere around my neck of the woods in suburban DC.I think every Dodge place I can think of in Montgomery County got the axe.
 
.....and now 1,100 GM dealers are closing in 2010.
 
What I do not understand is how closing the dealers is going to help the manufactures? I would think it will just decrease the market penitration and thus decrease the number of sales. I understand that some dealers might have to close due to decreased sales, but that is the way the world works.
 
What was the basis for closing a dealership? Sales? Location? Age?
 
Over the past weekend, I had occasion to rent two cars in two days, a Toyota Camry (only available for local leasing in St Louis!) and a Chrysler Sebring to make the interstate drive home with. The comparison was astounding! The former felt like a solid, well put together car, while the latter just felt "cheap" with ill-fitting, squeaky plastic throughout the interior, anemic power and generally just so inferior to the Toyota! It is no wonder that customers choices have not gone to the American manufacturers after this experience, and yet my Pontiac G6 holds up well in comparison to the Toyota, and GM has axed that line as well!! :rolleyes:
Closing dealerships seems to make no sense in terms of helping the manufacturers survive!! Better cars at good prices in as many dealerships as possible just seems more logical! :shocked:
 
Some of it is politics.

They are closing the only Dodge/Mopar dealer on the island of Maui. Used to do quite well, but they got smart and picked up Honda and Subaru a few years back.... So now Mopar mugwugs are closing that dealership, at least the Dodge part.

Yet that franchisee also has Mopar dealerships on the big island, one on the Hilo side and one on the Kona side...

Here on Oahu we have three Mopar dealers, two owned by the same outfit within a five miles of each other. They used to have one of the stores downtown, which was 20 miles away from their Waipahau store. Mopar owned the dealership property and raised the rent. So the franchisee took the lock stock and barrel and moved out to where his recon center was...

GM closed the poorest selling store here on Oahu. The only one on the windward side. It also is shared by Toyota/Suzuki and has another locale on the Leeward side. And GM has 5 other stores on Oahu. One, which is the only Cad store here has the lowest csi rating possible without GM pulling the franchise, only because there is no one who wants to pick up the store.
 
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