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Originally Posted by wescoent
They simply don't understand the urgency of the situation. They live and work where almost all cars are domestic... so why would they ever get the sense anything was wrong?
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That's one thing I recall from going to see NAIAS in '04. It took a while to find a foreign car there.
Goatgary has it right about the product mix on GM dealer lots, I've seen that on any Chevrolet dealer lot I've seen. I'd add that some Chevrolet dealers act as if it would be no skin off their noses if GM went away, or so it would seem for their marvelous efforts at improving the image. An example of this is the Chevy dealer in Newport News where, in the course of discussion about another car (in this case, a Malibu), I mentioned the Camaro. The sales manager hardly missed a beat in mentioning $120K. Mind you, the Malibu had about $1K worth of stuff I would not have asked for, and would have insisted that they take off the price of the car. Other dealers had "market adjustments" on theirs. Come on guys, GM is
trying to re-establish a good reputation in the face of substantial, if not overwhelming competition.