Why is Chrysler Closing Dealerships?

These dealerships were not at the bottom of the barrel. Chrysler just knows that they are not going to be able to supply all of its dealerships so I think they just drew straws or knocked out the ones that would be the hardest to supply and that was that. They are now killing the economy in those areas. It is not just the dealerships. It is the local diners, the little league kids. It is all kinds of charities because dealerships always support charities. It is all kinds of aspects of the local community that will suffer because these dealerships will be gone. A lot of money will be leaving the area and that will hurt everyone. But chrysler will be happy. They're going to Mexico. Lower wages, and no taxes. And no one to make sure they are doing a good job, so they can take as many short cuts as they want, at the buyers expense. Shalom~Adoniah

That's interesting, Ted, because as I'm sure you know, the spin that's being reported is that these dealers are the bottom 14% with the worst track record in sales. If Chrysler is no longer required to provide vehicles for them, the company saves money by producing less stock. What made me raise an eyebrow was this question....why not sell Fiats at those dealers instead of just dumping them?

What I don't get is these family run dealerships buy their cars to sell them... right? At least that's what I heard that they must buy the cars from the car companies and then they sell them to the private individual. Yeah I've heard story after story lately that the dealerships they are closing it doesn't seem that it is based so much off which are profitable... it looks like they drew names out of a hat. Dealerships that have decades under their belt and being shut off while they give the business up the street that has only been open for a couple years all the other guys business too. I'm waiting to see which ones in my town go bye bye.