American manufacturers missing the boat?
I just met up with my brother tonight and he was telling me about his Sunday trip down the "Automile". The automile is a stretch in Eastern Mass where there are about a dozen various dealers within a mile strip of rt 1. Anyway, he stops at the Toyota dealership to talk to someone about downsizing his current full size PU for a smaller truck. A dozen sales people, all knee deep in customers. He says he couldn't even get a sales type to speak with him. They were all too busy. So he decides to leave and come back another time, and he passes by the Chevy dealership where the 2 sales people are hanging out the door having a smoke, not a potential customer in sight.
I have a feeling the April sales figures for the big 3 are going to be worse than March.
It gets late early out there. - Yogi
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