List of Chrysler Dealers closing

[Builder]

Looks like my areas oldest Dodge truck dealer is toast. They've been around for about 80 years.....

We already had a GMC/Pontiac dealer close down about 2 months ago. Must have seen the writing on the wall. lol

Man, just having the Chrysler dealerships close will probably bump the unemployment rate up another 1%. When GM closes their dealerships, wow....2600 dealerships in round one alone!

Each dealership probably has an average of 100 employees & salespeople.

Really sad. More abandoned buildings, more unemployment, more dispair in the USA.

But as said before-it has to happen. They have to get smaller, then hopefully rebuild stronger.

I hope they can stay free of gov't & union influence, but looks like it's too late for that for Chrysler, what did they say? it'll be part union & part gov't owned? Better off bankrupt, like GM will be.

 

[radioman]

My newspaper also said this morning that 4 dealers in my area will close. IMHO, I beleive closing dealers will help with the warranty overhead costs. less dealers mean less paperwork and payouts for warranty work. You do realize that the other source of income for any dealers are warranty work?

 

[EddieWalker]

The map shows that Tyler is on the list of dealerships closing. I'm not a dodge guy and don't have any interest in them, but there sure are allot of them around here. I'm shocked that we're on the list of dealerships that are closing, but I don't know enough about it all to know how smart it is or where people will go to buy a Chrysler vehicle. I sort of think that with fewer dealerships, and none anywhere close to here, people will just stop buying them.

I read an article this morning that said the average Chrysler dealership sells just over 300 vehicles a year, while Honda does 1,200 and Toyota does 1,300 per dealership a year. Hard to justify all those dealerships when they are not selling very many vehicles. I wonder why they are still in business? I really wonder why the government is giving them bailout money......

Eddie

 

[flusher]

Just saw this map:

Chrysler Dealership Closings: - CNNMoney.com

Andy

One of the local Ford dealers has added the Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep lines within the past few months. I suspect more of this will happen across the country.

 

[chh]

My local Dodge dealer is on the list, he is also a GM dealer, with low sales. I bet he sure hopes he does not make the second list. He was required to build a new building 2 years ago by GM to keep his dealership, his old building was considered too "old looking" to properly represent GM. It is now his tractor dealership(Montana, McCormick, and now Case-IH along with Vermeer and Bushhog). I have noticed that in the last few weeks he has gone from a lot full of vehicles(too many for a small town dealer) down to only a couple of rows on the front of the lot, so this may have been anticipated.

 

[Bird]

I had noticed the one Chrysler dealer in my neighborhood being on the list, but he has the other dealership very close. Now I see the Dodge dealer, just another mile or two up the road is on the list, but he also sells Toyota and Honda at the same, or adjoining, locations. I'm sure there's going to be some people lose their jobs, but maybe it won't be as bad as originally thought.

 

[Diamondpilot]

My family on my mothers side has owned a Dodge/Chrysler Dealership for many years. Since 1928. I am really surprised they were not on the list. Its a very small dealership in a town of about 15,000. My grandfather sold cars and ran the family business until the early 90's or maybe it was the late 80's when his brother took it all over after my uncle who also worked there decided to part ways and went to work in a Visteon Factory where he later retired from.

My grandfather always drove Dodges and Chrysler's his entire life until the day he retired. He then bought a El Camino and a new Caddy within a week. He kept a Caddy, probably 5 different ones, up until the last few years of his life then he bought a Mercury Marquise. He traded the El Camino after a few years then went through 2 or 3 Ford basic F-250 Work Trucks.

It always caused friction that he parted with the Dodge products but he said he had always admired these other brands and vehicles and wanted to give them a try.

Chris

 

[LBrown59]

2 dealers in my area are on the list
But they aren't closing down or going out of business.
Just loosing the Jeep line.

 

[Builder]

2 dealers in my area are on the list
But they aren't closing down or going out of business.
Just loosing the Jeep line.

Funny you mentioned Jeep.

before the American economy tanked and the big 3 went into peril, I always thought that we needed one more alternative to the big 3 for full size trucks. I thought Jeep or IH might try a comeback in full size pickups.

Remember Jeep full size pickups? I thought they were pretty cool, but hopeless rust buckets. I thought if they brought back the full size Jeep pickup line, (completely modernized-of course) it would give us an alternative to the big 3.

They should have put me in charge of R&D. I'd borrow the 5.9L from Dodge, Ally & rear axle from GM. Bring back the old Jeep quadratrac system & beef it up a little...... remember the one with the full vaccum operated lockers controlled by the switch in the glove box? That was some cool stuff. Use the old Jeep numbers 2000, 3000, 4000, etc.

Oh well, a guy can dream a little, right?

 

[Scooby074]

Another thing.

Local dealerships have no idea on how to value used Chryslers coming in on trade. There giving much less than book value, if theyre even taking the trade in at all. Consumers dont want to buy a used Chrysler for obvious reasons.

BUILDER: Have a look at the Jeep Gladiator (concept). Diesel powered. Its the first jeep ive seen in a while that I would even think about considering. Jeep Grand Cherokee WK - Jeep Gladiator concept