In what can only be seen as great news for GM, its employees, customers and dealers, General Motors has announced that they will be sending out letters of intent to reinstate over 600 dealerships. 661 to be exact. This is over half of the nearly 1,100 that appealed GM’s decision to close them down after Congress forced GM to make cuts to its dealer network. GM originally announced that it would be closing 2,000 of its nearly 6,000 dealers across the country.
The thing that bothers me here is the members of Congress. First they tell GM to shed 1/3 of its dealers in a four month window. GM figures out which ones to cut and sends out the letters. Then the dealers complained and Congress passed a law requiring an appeals process for the dealers. Maybe Congress should have just made up their mind and say close the dealers within a year, or close them and be done with it. Instead they rush to tell GM what to do (like any of our politicians have any business sense inside their greatly over-inflated heads) and then back pedal when dealers started to complain. Maybe they should have thought about those dealers before jumping to conclusions and assuming they knew what the automaker needed to do to survive. For more on this story, head on over to MSN Autos.
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March 7th, 2010 at 11:13 pm
That’s a lot of handicap parking spots!