Shame to see a family-run business go under, especially like this. The youngest Isakson pretty much nailed it, I think:
"What has irked the Isaksons even more is the Obama administration's intervention in the auto industry.
"Starting in Washington and going to Detroit, all the way down, I blame everybody for this," says Eric Isakson, Rob's 32-year-old son. "How can someone tell us when we've done everything that we're supposed to do that we can't keep going on? It's a big slap in the face."
I hope most of the good dealerships change brands. Go to American made cars, like Honda, Nissan, Toyota, Hyundai.
This is a “white” dealership isn’t it?
What they’ve done to these dealers is nothing short of fascist thuggery and theft.
Man that is sad all those years of hard work.They did not deserve this end!
“How can someone tell us when we’ve done everything that we’re supposed to do that we can’t keep going on? It’s a big slap in the face.”
Not under yet. They will continue in the used car market. Used cars may be where it is at when the new cars being mandated by the govt turn out to be so crappy that they are unsellable.
More like a "family-run business PUT under."
Are they republicans?
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.
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.
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.