Posted on 06/13/2009 3:03:43 PM PDT by DemforBush
HOBART, Ind. – At the end of the 81-year marriage, the Isaksons said goodbye by turning off the lights. The partnership was over.
The Chrysler sign went dark.
It was an unceremonious finale to a four-generation bond between one family and one company, but it was not a surprise. Rob Isakson had known for weeks his dealership was on a Chrysler hit list — the cuts were part of the troubled automaker's survival strategy...
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Thanks to Hussein Obama and his nest of corrupt politicians that live in the US Congress.
that is a GREAT idea!
you don't have to guess. it is a fact for all closed chrysler dealers except for 2.
now with GM dealers you have to guess since GM did not release a list of closures.
Good idea. And then after the debris is cleaned up, perhaps the owners will allow us to use the property on weekends to raise funds for conservative candidates to run in primaries by way of yard sales, car washes, and the like.
The way they are treating these dealers, I can’t wait to see GM and Chrysler go belly up.
If a dealer has been turning a profit, they should not be forced out.
Some of these dealerships have been in the family for four generation. If you get right down to it, that’s probably the real problem right there. They’z gots to get more minorities into the ownership, so screw the old White guys.
GM and Chrysler are slitting their own throats IMO.
I am not critical of Ed Whitacre’s background. And he may be the man for the job, but I will never purchase another GM auto or pickup. And I have a Silverado P/U in the drive and a Saturn in the shop.
There is a difference in a utility like the Phone company and a manufacturing company which sells primarily to a consumer market.
A year from now I expect GM much heavier in supplying Government fleet purchases. There are a lot of soured investors, bondholders, and consumers who will not go to them again.
It is difficult to manage a mature company in tough times, but with the degree of the surgery they are doing to GM and Chrysler, mandated by the Government, and being told that they will focus on toy cars I feel it will fail.
Nobody in my company circle will buy a GM now. Ford is the first look.
In 1957 when I saw the first advertisement for the new Plymouth Fury (the “Christine” model with the cop-magnet gold stripe down the side), I knew I had to have one. Local Chrysler-Plymouth dealer in small-town Arkansas offhandedly quoted me something like $3400. A friend had bought a Chrysler 300 from a “dealer” in his home town. He took me up there after work one afternoon. The place was not much more than a service station under a big oak tree, but the “dealer” told me he could sell me the Fury for about $1,000 less than the other quote, and if I rode to Evansville, IN with him I could pick up the car, drive it home, and save the shipping cost. I got it in writing and gave him earnest money. In about 6 weeks my new car arrived. The Fury was an upscale Plymouth model and there really were no options to deal about. I’m sure that Chrysler weeded out small town dealerships like that in the intervening years on the road to bankruptcy.
“Used cars may be where it is at when the new cars being mandated by the govt”
Absolutely correct.
I’ll bet GM wins every guberment bid for the next decade.
I’m a Ford person myself, actually Mercury but you catch my drift.
Ford has done a good job with their management. I salute them.
“I’m curious with all the people calling for Chrysler and GM to go bankrupt what did they expect?”
Bankruptcy is not the same thing as going out of business or having your business shut down by the Chicago mafia. Get your facts straight.
“Consolation is both Chrysler and GM will probably go out of business in spite of this.
I am sure that is another auto manufacturer who will be glad to sell them cars.”
You know, in a weird way, I think you are on to something. Many of the dealers that just got screwed by the government might be thanking the government in a few years. There may be enough of a market out there in for other manufacturers that that they can pick up another line and stay in business. Then when Government Motors and 0bama Motors go belly up (which they will do), these dealers will be in a position to pick up the market share in the other brands. Meanwhile, the Government Motors and 0bama Motors dealers will not be able to pick up an alternate brand, and will be left out in the cold.
Yes, and now they are turning to the medical field. I hope there are enough in Congress to oppose any government take over.
Thought it might be too good to be true.
The socialist rag I saw it in glossed over the details.
I am not buying one of those death traps they are building for us. Have you noticed most of what Obama has for us include death. Death care, death cars, death ecnomony.
I actually have no sympathy for those old four-generation dealerships. The owners have the best houses in town in the best neighborhoods having lived on extravagant markups for decades.
I’m saving my 1996 Honda Accord for just a sale.
With the UAW owning a vote share in GM and representing both Ford and GM this will be quite nuts.
You realize that sign was a crime during parts of the 1930s.
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