Chrysler Kills 11 Fewer Dealers Than Reported (789)
Chrysler has come within 11 dealers of confirming media reports that it would terminate 800 US dealers ( dowload pdf list of 789 terminated ChyrCo dealers here). This as the bankrupt automaker steps-up its efforts to satisfy its federal overlords and prepare for Fiat’s command and control. Oh, and emerge from C11 as a viable automaker. Automotive News [AN, sub] has intercepted a memo from the corporate mothership highlighting the company’s care and concern towards the dead stores not selling. “Dealers are learning of their fate via UPS letters to be delivered this morning, the memo says. Dealers will get 23 business days for a ‘court review’ of their cases, according to the memo, from a sales manager to district dealers. ”All of this information is subject to change,” the memo says. Music to the dealers’ lawyers’ ears, presumably. Meanwhile, NADA . . .
The National Automotive Dealers Association (NADA) reckons each Chrysler dealership employs about 48 people. Using that formula, they estimate today’s ChyrCo dealer cull will throw 37,872 people out of work. Yes, well, today’s termination represents represents just 24.7 percent of Chrysler’s franchisees. So if you call this round one, pre-Fiat, you wouldn’t be going too far out on that prognostication limb, thing. AN gives us the rest of the salient details.
• Chrysler, because it is under Bankruptcy Court protection, will not be required to buy back vehicles, tools or parts from rejected dealers.
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