There is a minimum stock required for a dealership.
There are a certain number of cars that will go unsold at the end of every model year and eventually be molded into the used car inventory.
Fewer dealerships does not necessarily mean fewer new car sales.
What it most certainly means is fewer overstock conversions at the end of each year.
But maybe I’m just clueless and Chrysler is going about this all wrong (and maybe Toyota and Honda have no clue either - they maintain far fewer dealerships than the big three while selling just as many cars each year).
Maybe what they need are MORE dealerships - one on every corner! And we can use stimulus projects to build them!
Short version - assertions that dealership franchises have no cost to the factory are simply untrue.
No, you just have a hard time with reading comprehension.