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  • 80 companies: Mercedes wants to sell all car dealerships in Germany

    01/20/2024 6:58:50 AM PST · by yesthatjallen · 23 replies
    Vikendi ^ | 01 19 2024 | Eleanor Pearce
    Mercedes-Benz is considering selling its branches in Germany. it’s about everyone [car dealership] and self-owned workshops, the company said on Friday upon request. The review is open-ended and step-by-step. “The Mercedes-Benz Group is ready for discussions with potential buyers of its branches.” Only experienced companies will be considered as buyers. “We do not plan to sell to pure financial investors and closing locations is not part of the review.” Furthermore, there are no plans to distribute all branches as one package. There are 80 companies with a total of 8,000 employees. “Physical business is and will remain a central pillar...
  • Report: Despite Billions in Government Investments, Electric Vehicles ‘Piling Up on Dealer Lots’

    12/27/2023 2:04:38 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 83 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/27/2023 | John Binder
    Electric Vehicles (EVs) are “piling up on dealer lots” as American consumers continue buying traditional gas-powered cars at faster rates, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to the Journal, despite major investments from the federal government and automakers into EVs, Americans are not warming to President Joe Biden’s green energy agenda the way the administration and the industry had predicted. The Journal reports: As a result, electric cars and trucks are piling up on dealer lots, causing auto companies to reassess their investment plans. It takes a dealership around three weeks longer to sell an EV than a gasoline vehicle,...
  • Drive Off: Major Car Dealership Files for Bankruptcy

    09/11/2023 11:06:11 PM PDT · by Dexter Morgan · 26 replies
    The U.S. Sun ^ | 09-10-2023 | Miska Salemann
    A car dealership has closed its doors for good, citing unprecedented changes in the used car sales industry as the motivating factor behind the decision. Off Lease Only, the Florida-based dealership chain, has filed for bankruptcy and fired all its employees.A message on the company's website explains that management is winding down operations and thanked customers for their years of patronage. Many former employees told local Fox affiliate WOFL that they received notice of their termination directly after a large company meeting on Wednesday. The company boasted five locations across Florida, with over 500 vehicles available. Some frustrated customers were...
  • VANITY: Went to several car dealerships yesterday. What I witnessed is SCARY AND DISCONCERTING!

    11/21/2021 10:05:27 AM PST · by SilvieWaldorfMD · 153 replies
    Self ^ | 11/21/21 | Self
    My husband and I went to our local Toyota dealership here in Southern Maryland - one of the largest Toyota dealerships on the East Coast - looking for a new 2022 Camry. We've owned several Camry's since 2000 and I've owned Toyota vehicles since 1980. My husband just comes along with me. He knows that I'm capable of detecting bullsh*t and cockamamie stories from sales staff, so he just sits back and listens. (He's trained me well, I must admit!) We arrived a few minutes before the dealership opened, so we took a drive in the lots in the back...
  • (vanity) How to get the best pricing on '21 Honda CRV-EX

    05/06/2021 6:05:29 PM PDT · by NewJerseyJoe · 92 replies
    self | 5/6/21 | NewJerseyJoe
    Hello FReepers. Looking for any advice on negotiating the best price for a new car. (I'm getting a 2021 Honda CRV-EX, no options). I've put together an email (see following) that I will send to the local Honda dealers. Asking for any suggestions or wording to make it the most effective. Thanks in advance.
  • Just a warning - unscrupulous car dealerships are still alive and well.

    08/22/2018 4:58:52 PM PDT · by eastexsteve · 81 replies
    After what my wife had to endure Monday in a Fort Worth Mitsubishi dealership, I thought it might be wise to reinforce the notion that pond scum still exists in the new car buying market. Thank God I was only a phone call away. To make a long story short, they started by offering her dirt for her trade, which I already prepared her for. (NADA trade-in value is one thing, but they weren't even in the ball park.) They next tried to sell her the car for over a thousand dollars ABOVE what they were offering it on their...
  • House Hacking Suspects’ Father Transferred Data To Pakistani Government, Ex-Partner Claims

    04/19/2018 7:39:09 PM PDT · by Libloather · 25 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | 4/19/18 | Luke Rosiak, Wajid Ali Syed
    FAISALABAD, Pakistan — The father of Imran Awan — an IT aide to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz who investigators concluded made “unauthorized access” to House servers — transferred a USB drive to a Pakistani senator and former head of a Pakistani intelligence agency, the father’s ex-business partner, Rashid Minhas, alleged. Minhas told The Daily Caller News Foundation that Imran Awan’s father, Haji Ashraf Awan, was giving data to Pakistani official Rehman Malik, and that Imran bragged he had the power to “change the U.S. president.” Asked for how he knew this, he said that on one occasion in 2008 when...
  • Dealership apologizes for error, customer arrest

    10/08/2012 5:14:50 AM PDT · by billorites · 85 replies
    Virginian-Pilot ^ | September 27, 2012 | Scott Daugherty
    The president of Priority Chevrolet apologized Wednesday for the arrest of a customer in June whom the dealership mistakenly undercharged for an SUV and who resisted the company's efforts to get him to sign a new, costlier contract. Dennis Ellmer said he's heard from Chesapeake police that one of his managers told an officer that Danny Sawyer of Chesapeake had stolen a 2012 Chevrolet Traverse. "I owe Mr. Sawyer a big apology," said Ellmer, who manages the entire Priority Auto Group - which includes 11 dealerships in Virginia and North Carolina. He said his staff erred when they sold the...
  • DEA Raids Car Dealership with Alleged Ties to Terrorist Group Hezbollah

    12/18/2011 7:59:04 PM PST · by Nachum · 27 replies
    Fox News ^ | 12/18/11 | Fox News
    Drug Enforcement Administration agents have raided an Oklahoma car dealership that the government suspects may be one of about 30 such businesses in the U.S. involved in funding the terrorist group Hezbollah. DEA agents say the car lot of Ace Auto Leasing in Tulsa is part of a huge network that is selling cars and drugs -- and then using the money to support terrorism against the U.S., myfoxphoenix.com reports. During Friday's raid, agents could be seen carryout out filing cabinets and other items. They also questioned employees and took inventory. "They're making big time money and it's going right...
  • Barack Obama and the Engine of Job Destruction

    09/29/2010 1:08:25 PM PDT · by jfd1776 · 10 replies
    Illinois Review ^ | Sept 29, 2010 A.D. | John F. Di Leo
    We expect our politicians – particularly governors and presidents – to focus a good deal of attention on job creation (the wrong philosophy may cause their efforts to fail, but at least they’re expected to try). A continuous increase in employment opportunities is obviously critical for both the individual and the economy at large, not to mention the fact that the difference between employment and unemployment is soon to be a key driver in each voter’s level of satisfaction on Election Day. So it has been surprising to see, over the past two years, how much the Obama administration, instead...
  • Dealergate: Destroying Jobs in the Name of "Shared Sacrifice"

    07/21/2010 3:48:45 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 17 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | July 21, 2010 | Michelle Malkin
    Everything you need to know about the nightmare of government-controlled businesses can be found in a damning new inspector general's report on Dealergate. The independent review of how and why the Obama administration forced Chrysler and General Motors to oversee mass closures of car dealerships across the country reveals grisly incompetence, fatal bureaucratic hubris and Big Labor cronyism. No wonder you won't hear much about the report's in-depth details in the so-called mainstream media. Under the guise of "saving" the American auto industry through a bipartisan, taxpayer-funded bailout now topping $80 billion, President Obama's know-nothing bureaucrats pushed the car companies...
  • Obama's 'Mandate for Sacrifice' Costs Thousands of Jobs

    07/20/2010 6:30:44 AM PDT · by NMRed · 9 replies · 1+ views
    American Thinker ^ | 07/20/2010 | William Tate
    As many as 100,000 Americans who lost their jobs, or will soon, because of GM and Chrysler dealership closings can thank Barack Obama and his "mandate for shared sacrifice," according to a top Obama official. In a scathing report on the federal auto industry bailout, Special Inspector General Neil M. Barofsky notes that the Obama administration rejected initial automaker plans which would have required relatively minimal dealership closings, insisting instead on far more drastic cuts -- as many as two thousand dealerships between the two corporations. (snip) And Barofsky's report even questions whether the closures would lead to any real...
  • Lawmakers Chide Automakers Over Dealership Cuts(GM Issues State-by-State Closings List)

    06/13/2009 8:30:01 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 33 replies · 1,582+ views
    WP ^ | 06/13/09 | Dan Eggen and Kendra Marr
    Lawmakers Chide Automakers Over Dealership Cuts GM Issues State-by-State Closings List By Dan Eggen and Kendra Marr Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, June 13, 2009 Out of the 1,323 General Motors dealers targeted for elimination, the most will come from Pennsylvania. Ninety dealerships will be forced to wind down in the state. Pennsylvania is followed by Ohio with 79, Illinois with 66, California with 65 and New York with 60. GM, which has declined to name individual dealers, released the state-by-state list for the first time yesterday to a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee. And lawmakers vented their frustration, demanding...
  • Boortz: A LETTER FROM A DODGE DEALER

    05/20/2009 6:46:46 AM PDT · by yankeedame · 60 replies · 3,084+ views
    Nealz Nuze ^ | May 20, 2009 | Neal Boortz
    A LETTER FROM A DODGE DEALER By Neal Boortz @ May 20, 2009 8:24 AM Permalink | A listener pointed me to this letter from a Dodge dealer down in Florida. Thought you may enjoy ....=============================================================================================================== My name is George C. Joseph. I am the sole owner of Sunshine Dodge-Isuzu, a family owned and operated business in Melbourne, Florida. My family bought and paid for this automobile franchise 35 years ago in 1974. I am the second generation to manage this business. We currently employ 50+ people and before the economic slowdown we employed over 70 local people. We are...
  • GM dealers await word from Detroit on closures

    05/13/2009 5:17:38 AM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 11 replies · 937+ views
    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | May 13, 2009 | Don Hammonds
    An estimated 137,332 people could find out by the end of the week that they will lose their jobs when General Motors Corp. announces which 2,641 dealerships will close by year's end. While that won't be good news, it may at least offer an end to the endless speculation that has dealers comparing notes to try to figure out what comes next and how GM officials will be making their choices. "We haven't heard anything at all here, and we may be one of the dealerships being canceled," said Bob Arnold, owner of Arnold Pontiac in Houston, Pa., which also...
  • 81-Vehicle Theft Looks Like An Inside Job

    03/12/2009 7:06:08 AM PDT · by Netizen · 50 replies · 1,882+ views
    Omaha World Herald ^ | March 12, 2009 | MAUNETTE LOEKS
    SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. — Three Scottsbluff auto dealership executives are expected to be under arrest by this morning after they packed up their belongings, loaded 81 new vehicles onto trucks and left town. Scottsbluff police, with help from federal authorities, tracked the trio across the southwestern United States on Wednesday as many of the vehicles were sold at auctions. Felony theft charges were filed in Scotts Bluff County Court on Wednesday against Legacy Auto Sales owner Allen Patch and two of his senior managers: comptroller Rachel Fait, 37, and general manager Rick Covello, 53. Detectives located Patch, 52, at his attorney's...
  • Scottsbluff Dealership Missing Three Bosses, Dozens of Cars

    03/11/2009 7:31:20 AM PDT · by NEMDF · 82 replies · 3,759+ views
    Omaha World Herald ^ | 3/10/2009 | Maunette Loeks
    Scottsbluff dealership missing three bosses, dozens of cars http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10583582 SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. — One by one, somebody loaded new Toyotas onto trucks Monday evening from the Legacy Auto Sales dealership in Scottsbluff and drove off into the night. Dozens of cars were taken. Now plenty of people, including Scottsbluff police, want to know what's going on. That includes Legacy employee Miranda Cervantes. She discovered Tuesday morning that the dealership's owner and two other officers had disappeared without a word to the staff. Also gone were more than 80 Ford and Toyota vehicles. Employees found the desks of owner Allen Patch, comptroller...
  • Police: Dealership employees took disabled man for more than $100,000

    01/20/2007 9:11:55 AM PST · by seowulf · 123 replies · 2,887+ views
    KOMO-TV Seattle ^ | 1/19/2007 | KOMO staff
    SEATTLE- In bizarre series of events that have led to multiple arrests, Seattle police say a group of employees at a car dealership in West Seattle stole more than $100,000 from a disabled man. Seattle police spokesman Sean Whitcomb said the bizarre series of events began when the victim, a 60-year-old man with a diminished mental capacity, went to the Huling Brothers dealership in late July. The man was covered in his own urine and feces and asked a salesman about buying a truck. "I think that anyone would look at that individual and at least pause - and think...
  • Hyundai opens Iraq showroom despite violence

    04/15/2004 11:48:55 PM PDT · by Liberal Classic · 7 replies · 341+ views
    Reuters ^ | Mon 12 April, 2004 | Khaled Yacoub Oweis
    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A red Hyundai sports coupe graces Iraq's first new car showroom, opened last week as violence rose to levels not seen since the war began. "We have sold 38 Hyundais already, but no coupes. They are considered too flashy in these circumstances," said Nihad Abdul Rahman, assistant general manager of Al-Kasid, exclusive agents for selling Hyundai Motor Company cars in Iraq. "Iraqis are looking for something affordable and reliable, and Hyundai fits the bill," he said after selling a $10,200 Elantra to a retired officer. ... But Khalaf Ganabi, the retired officer who bought the Elantra, was...