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Van Hollen Statement on Chrysler and GM Dealership Plans
Chrysler and GM announced they were terminating more than 3,000 dealerships, many of them profitable small businesses employing thousands of people in communities all across the nation. Their logic didn’t make sense then, and it still doesn’t make sense today.
Statement on GM & Chrysler Press Statements
We are greatly disappointed at today’s unilateral decisions by General Motors and Chrysler to end negotiations with dealer representatives and to publicize indefensible so-called reinstatement plans.
Did the Auto Task Force Consider This?
The myth of “too many dealers” has gone on so long that people believe it’s true, without ever examining the facts. Most dealers would rather have less competition, it’s only natural. Simple math and an examination of the facts prove there are too few dealers, not too many.
Restoring Auto Dealerships
You argue that restoring dealerships would endanger the reorganized General Motors and Chrysler companies. In fact, G.M. and Chrysler need more dealers to succeed, not fewer. Dealers are sources of revenue for manufacturers, and they don’t cost the manufacturers a dime.
Auto bailout bad for jobs, Main St.
The car companies want us to believe cutting dealers will position them to emerge stronger and better able to compete, that there are too many dealers, they cost too much and deliver too little. This logic is flawed.