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GM Dealer Closing List: SEE THE LIST

Huffington Post   First Posted: 06/24/09 06:07 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 02:20 PM ET

The list of the more than 1,000 dealerships that GM plans to close has begun to trickle in. On Friday, GM dealerships across the country began receiving FedEx packages indicating which franchises could be shut down by next year. GM has announced that it will not renew its franchise agreements with nearly one quarter of its U.S. dealerships.

GM, however, isn't publicly disclosing the list of dealerships that could be shuttered. The Huffington Post is compiling a list of the closed dealerships as we get word from readers.

[GM Has since announced that 41 dealerships will remain open. Check out our story on GM dealership reprieves.]

Help us compile all of the closing dealerships! If you hear of any GM dealerships closing in your area, email us at submissions+gm@huffingtonpost.com. We are only posting confirmed closures of GM dealerships, so please include a link to a news report in your email.


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The list of the more than 1,000 dealerships that GM plans to close has begun to trickle in. On Friday, GM dealerships across the country began receiving FedEx packages indicating which franchises coul...
The list of the more than 1,000 dealerships that GM plans to close has begun to trickle in. On Friday, GM dealerships across the country began receiving FedEx packages indicating which franchises coul...
 
 
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Kristin Kaufmann
Seriously...
10:35 AM on 06/10/2009
For a company like GM needing huge bailouts, closing dealers and generally just jumping the shark, how in the hell were they able to BAILOUT DELPHI for OVER $2BILLION?????Somebody please answer that...
12:58 AM on 06/09/2009
And the dominoes continue to fall....... Who will be next?
10:59 PM on 06/03/2009
Now we learn the truth . . . it was the Dealers that brought down GM and Chrysler, not the Union. The dealers were selling cars that nobody wanted for too cheap...makes sense to me.

And all of those bonuses paid to the top executives for the past thirty years, what was that all about? Pay for performance or pay for position and ability to acheive favor? Don't think it was for the stockholders benefit or performance so it must be for their good looks.
05:51 PM on 05/26/2009
There are lots of lives being effected by these arbitrary cuts, and no good reason has been put forth as to why the dealer body has to be reduced in such a reckless manner. Although many have thought that GM has been over-dealered for many years, to handle dealer cuts this way is a slap in the face of all the hard working dealership employees who who happen to fall below some imaginary line drawn up by executives who are to distracted about their own fate to care about anyone else. At least GM still has the luxury of trying to be humane , Chrysler's post-bankruptcy filing treatment of their dealers is truly horrible. Although everyone has been declaring GM dead for 40 years, it was a combination of a Gas scare & a massive banking crisis , & a the media's lynch mob mentality that puts GM where it is today.
People may disagree on what needed to be done, but to attack the dealers( as many have done on these posts) is shameful....
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booboo111
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06:38 PM on 05/18/2009
I don't understand how closing down dealerships save the auto manufacturers money. The dealers incur all their own costs, not the manufacturers?
02:40 PM on 05/24/2009
In the past, GM and Chrysler built cars to satisfy the demand of not the public but of their dealers. So b/c GM has 6000 dealers and Chrysler had 2500 dealers, they were building cars to keep those dealers well stocked.

As a result, when demand for the products has declined, their supply has remained high and they are incurring costs on cars that aren't selling. In turn to sell those cars to the dealers they had to add on lots of cash back incentives the move the vehicles and that cut into the bottom line and still is.

By cutting dealers they are cutting the amount of cars they need to build to keep those dealers well stocked and therefore do not need to be making so many cars and incurring so many extra costs.
05:26 PM on 05/18/2009
Here's the problem with their rationale- it totally ignores the internet! I've done my last 5 car deals largely over the internet and via email. And I will continue to do the same, so my number of dealerships really hasn't decreased. The only thing that will probably take a hit is customer service, as you'll have fewer service departments and have to travel further to get service. So in effect GM is taking away one of the few positives available to the consumer- choice! I see this leading to larger problems, not solving them. If GM really wants to increase their market they should stop moving factories into foreign markets and build them here in the US. I won't buy a car built in a foreign country, but I will buy a foreign car built in the US (as in my most recent purchase, an Infiniti G37). Sorry GM, but you haven't shown me anything that indicates you'll ever get out of the mess you've made.
05:58 PM on 05/18/2009
Hate to break the bad news, but your G37 was assembled in Tochigi, Japan.
11:01 PM on 05/18/2009
JK,

You should have checked out the domestic content of the car you wanted before you bought it. I think it is on one of the early posts at www.ProudlyMadeInAmerica.com
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DrBillo1
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02:44 PM on 05/18/2009
If people really liked what you had to offer much fewer dealers would have to close down-the product and its reliability are foremost in the minds of owners--after 47 years of buying American cars I had enough problems to try Lexus 8 years ago--I have owned 4 of them and have not had one single problem-when they build Americans cars this well I will immediately switch-------
07:47 PM on 05/19/2009
You can buy 3 chevys for the price of a Lexus. Compare apples to apples. Now I believe Buick and Caddy have some of the highest CSI ratings in the industry. I think the foreign car makers have done a great job of brainwashing a generation of American car buyers. GM is making great cars right now and if they can get through this will crush the competition.
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larryODBC
04:04 AM on 05/18/2009
i think we should take a hughe chunk of stimulus money and give it to the electric car engine kit makers to retrofit all these GM and Chrysler cars with engines like the LincVolt -- these dealerships coule be SAVED!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz5Lk44VbF8
we'd turn GM and Chrysler cars into electric vehicles, give hundreds of engineers and parts makers jobs and give GM and Chrysler a real run for their money in competing to get electric vehicles to the consumers... You did a series of articles on the LincVolt and other inventors -- now is the time for applied innovation!
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11:51 PM on 05/17/2009
Who writes the unbelievably inaccurate headlines for HP so frequently features? After clicking through the links in this story we discover that "SEE FULL LIST" in HP headlineze means here's a list of about 25 of the 1,100 dealerships.
01:03 PM on 05/18/2009
Nose hit shirt lock.
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MsIrisMG
Why not me?
08:40 PM on 05/17/2009
GM isn't going to publish a list, so if there is one, you won't see it HERE, folks.
06:26 PM on 05/17/2009
I've been trying to find the list. There is no list is there?
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local21
Next to go is Scott Walker in 2014
10:14 AM on 05/17/2009
I would like to see the State of Illinois or at least Cook County county change the local sale tax on the sale of a new car now that we are going to have mega dealerships.

The day of the mom and pop dealership is over and what Home Depot/ Lowes did to the local hardware store GM is going to do to the local community car dealership.

I would like to see my community get the sales tax if I have to go 2 towns over or 2 counties over to buy a new car. I don't want to see towns giving tax breaks and fighting over car dealerships to re-locate to their town. If you live in Evanston and buy a car in Arlington Heights then the lion share of the sales tax should go to the town of Evanston .
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05:26 PM on 05/19/2009
The only way IL is going to change their sales tax is upward. Are you kidding? They are already drooling trying to figure out how fast they can spend the highest sales taxes in the country. 10.25% I was born and raised in IL. We moved because property taxes were killing us. Our home was not huge - 1300 sq. ft. and we could no longer afford to live in it and pay taxes. Sales taxes at the time were between 6-8%. We lived in Cook County. I drove to Lake County to grocery shop to save on sales taxes. A lot of people and businesses will be saying adios to Illinois. Then they will have to raise the taxes on the remaining schnooks even higher because - God forbid - the politicians will not cut back on their spending. They do not only help the helpless, they help the clueless. We decided it was time to abandon ship. Good luck Illinoisians.
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local21
Next to go is Scott Walker in 2014
09:57 AM on 05/17/2009
I had to buy a new battery this past winter for my 2003 Chevy Monte Carlo. This is the only service outside of oil changes I've had to do.

Great car.

I'll stick with American UAW or Canadian UAW products like I have for the last 32 years.
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kesmarn
12:22 PM on 05/18/2009
My son has a 1994 Chevy Cavalier that is still humming along. Fifteen years old.
07:50 PM on 05/19/2009
You don't see too many 15 year old Toyotas or Nissans running around do you? If they are they are a rust bucket
09:28 AM on 05/17/2009
Brilliant biz plan - make it harder for people to buy your product by closing retail outlets.
09:02 PM on 05/16/2009
were is the government. they have such compassion for the unions, what about the dealers.
11:50 PM on 05/16/2009
The government has loaned $19 BILLION dollars to GM, It did not go to the unions, it went to GM. If you read up on this you will discover some truly amazing facts: 500 GM dealers on the list sell fewer than 35 cars PER YEAR. the avarage GM dealer sells 303 cars per year. The average Toyota dealer sells over 1,400 per year. Many of these dealers are selling Pontiacs (already announced as going away) or Saturn or Hummer which will be sold by GM GM has decided that it has too many dealers selling too few cars. Bummer for any dealer who stands to lose his livelihood and investment. It's a problem between GM, the dealer, and the marketplace. When you ask about government compassion for the unions, what exactly do you mean? Wage cuts, give backs, plant clousures, layoffs? The $19 billion didn't gp tp the unions.
10:19 AM on 05/17/2009
Bummer for the loyal customers of Pontiac and Saturn. I guess Obama's car czar (Wall Street Rattner) thinks this is the way for GM to improve market share. Oh I forgot Rattner drives a foreign car and sees Detroit as a problem needing a final solution.... downsize, downsize, dle.