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^ Top   #1   01.25.2009

Cybergal Truck Forum Supporter   Last Seen: 04.16.2009 05.42 AM Member Since: Oct 2008 Posts: 13,838 My Trucking Photos: 27 Thanks: 2,066 Thanked: 2,575 Times My Truckers Blog : 16

Car Dealers Try to Survive as Economy, Sales Drop Car Dealers Try to Survive as Economy, Sales Drop 1/25/09 Quote: NEW ORLEANS — At this year's version of the National Automobile Dealers Association convention, survival has passed maximizing profits as the focus of the annual event. So as thousands of dealers from across the U.S. gathered Saturday in New Orleans, they were greeted by workshops entitled "Selling up in a down economy: Taking the bull by the horns" and "Tough times, tougher dealers: Saving your dealership's assets." By almost all accounts, 2009 will be among the toughest years ever faced by the roughly 20,000 new car dealerships in the U.S., with sales of cars and lightweight trucks projected to shrink by as much as 6 million vehicles from the 16.1 million sold as recently as 2007. Sales last year were 13.2 million, down 18 percent from 2007, and December sales ran at an annual rate of around 10 million. Last year's sales were the worst in 26 years. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,482685,00.html

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^ Top   #2   01.25.2009

RickG Truck Forum Supporter   Last Seen: 2 Weeks Ago 01.15 AM Member Since: Jul 2008 Trucker? No Answer Posts: 7,645 My Trucking Photos: 0 Thanks: 526 Thanked: 2,827 Times

Maybe car salesmen should think about becoming truck drivers .

^ Top   #3   01.25.2009

danc694u "Village Idiot"   Member Since: May 2007 Location: Mississippi Trucker? 23 Years Age: 50 Posts: 9,409 My Trucking Photos: 11 Thanks: 424 Thanked: 2,698 Times

Quote: Originally Posted by RickG Maybe car salesmen should think about becoming truck drivers . Yeh...then he could afford to buy a used car LMAO. Our local Chrysler dealer is the ONLY dealer, that has NOT cut prices. I don't see how he is staying in business. When Ford and GMC have cut prices to the bone. __________________ He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance........ He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation: Declaration Of Independence __________________ King George or Obama ????

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