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They’re already doing this. The manufacturers are cranking out ridiculous volume incentives to the dealers. Last month alone Chrysler paid one of our stores over $100,000 just because they hit a certain sales volume. They don’t give two shits about how much profit the dealership makes on a deal- as long as someone

These things can exist on a franchise model:

1st gear: Nothing new, dealership turnover has always been ridiculous. What’s happening now is the market is sliding a little so all the salespeople think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence and jump ship to another dealership they think will be better. Three months in they’ll realize it’s not, and

Nice that they’re actually doing it, unlike this concept and others.

Some kind of mystery kit car built on a VW chassis:

Subaru Sambar kei truck in Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh area, which is in the middle of a tech industry boom.

I bought a Jeep Compass once.

Jeez. Angry much? All I did was tell you we let customers buy online and they don’t do it.

I’ve noticed base models of anything are getting much harder to come by

This.

I work in marketing for a dealer group.

Having to vote NP because I’m in Pennsylvania and it’s not a rusted out heap. Here in the rust belt a non-rotted out Cherokee is a rare mythical beast, something like a dragon or a griffin.

These three statements pretty much sum it up: 

the 148,000-mile car

That depends. How many gold bars are in the trunk?

68... thousand?

Needs more living room.