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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...
And the dominoes continue to fall....... Who will be next?
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.
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....
I don't understand how closing down dealerships save the auto manufacturers money. The dealers incur all their own costs, not the manufacturers?
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.
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