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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 01:58 AM
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Dealership failed

I went down to my local Ford dealership today and they were gone! Nobody there and not a car or truck on the lot.

Next door the Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep dealer has lost their franchise. Will now be only a Toyota dealer.


Lots of jobs gone.

 
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 06:45 PM
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Haven't seen or heard of any failing around the KC area. In my hometown of Nevada Guthrie (chevy, gmc) is going out of business. A few years to soon in my opinion. Well know for selling junkers. Also the chevy dealer in Lamar is going out also.
 
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 07:08 PM
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lost a ford and dodge dealer last year. still have 2 chevy dealers within 10 miles of each other
 
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 09:38 PM
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We lost our good Ford dealer the day after the election, there since 1921.....gone now.
Now the only one left is one of those infamous, Ford/ GMC/Chrysler/Mercury/Subaru/Dodge trucks/toyota/Hummer/Lexus/ Lincoln/honda/Jeep dealers.........You cant get good service there, you cant even find a competent parts guy there.......Their only priority is sales.
 
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by grumpy46
lost a ford and dodge dealer last year. still have 2 chevy dealers within 10 miles of each other

Well that's enough to make you Grumpy!!!
 
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Old Mar 30, 2009 | 09:59 AM
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The only dealers Ive seen close recently along my regular routes of travel are a small Buick-GMC-Pontiac that wasnt much good anyway and a big Nissan right next door to a big Honda dealer.

Harbor Chevrolet near work is building an adjacent Hyundai store. Cormier Chevrolet, also in Long Beach, did the same thing several years ago. Pacific Ford may be in trouble if Ford drops Mercury and Mazda, as they recently built new LM and Mazda showrooms.

Jim
 
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Old Mar 30, 2009 | 01:40 PM
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Every dealer in my town is still there to this day...all of them have been here as long as the automobile was alive.

I pester part counter guys once in a while to see if they have NOS crap laying about...
 
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Old Mar 30, 2009 | 02:29 PM
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All the Ford dealers are gone around here. So is Dodge.
 
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Our dealership is here but I know they are hurting, no one is ever there.
 
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