Dearborn Dealership on Chrysler List of Cuts
Dearborn’s Joe Ricci Dodge, 14765 Michigan Ave., is among the 789 dealerships that Chrysler LLC says it will seek to slash by June 9, according to the court document listing the names of the dealerships.
According to the Detroit Free Press, some of the 789 dealers will try to stay in business, selling used cars and offering auto services. Joe Ricci Dodge is among some 40 dealerships in Michigan on Chrysler’s closure list.
With the dealerships now identified, Chrysler must sell the 44,000 vehicles sitting on their lots in the next few weeks without driving prices to fire-sale levels for remaining dealers, the Free Press reports
According to the Free Press, Chrysler said it would move the inventory from the rejected dealers to those that stay open and try to sell most of it over the next four to six weeks. But it’s unclear who gets the money from the sale of those vehicles.
Chrysler’s Steven Landry, executive vice president of North American sales and marketing, told the Free Press there would be no compensation to dealers who owe various amounts to Chrysler Financial for that inventory.
May 15th, 2009 at 10:04 am
I am so sadden to hear that Joe Ricci will be closed down – I have leased all of my vehicles from them in the past 10 years. I wonder if he will remain open on the Mitsubishi side and continue to sell used cars?
May 15th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
It’s a sad day when the goverment can dictate who’s in business and who’s out. Where are we going to draw the line and what’s next? Joe Ricci is a tax payer who gives to Dearborn in many ways. How many people will loose their jobs because of this?
Let business be a business, the strong make it, the weak won’t.
May 15th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Dan B-
Yes ’tis a sad day when the government can dictate who’s in business and who’s out, but how does that have anything to do with Joe Ricci Dodge closing? I am assuming what you are getting at is that Barack Obama, through his oversight of the auto company bailout loans, is pushing a socialist agenda and wants to make much of the economy public (or something to that effect).
I won’t argue whether Barry O is a socialist or not, but this much I know: If Chrysler hadn’t showed up to Capitol Hill hat in hand, they wouldn’t be in this position. Unfortunately when they decided to dip into public money – and by doing so make the government a major shareholder – they exposed themselves to the fickle ways of the political wind. If the government is a shareholder you have to look out for their interests too, right?
That being said, what I really wanted to comment on was the fact that the government had absolutely nothing to do with the closure of Joe Ricci Dodge. In fact, if it weren’t for the government and it’s deep pockets, Joe Ricci Dodge AND Westborn Chrysler would probably both be closed right now. Dan, it’s not like the government said to Chrysler: “Hey this Joe Ricci Dodge? Fughettaboutit.” (I don’t know why, but I picture the government in my made up scenario as some heavily pomaded Joe Pesci-type)
Chrysler closed 800 dealerships this week. The company was being crippled by an over-saturated dealership network. This much everyone agrees on. It wasn’t some liberal mandate thundered down from the mount at 1600 Pennsylvania. It was, to borrow some words, the weak trying to get stronger.
May 16th, 2009 at 9:32 am
hey dan b.,
your hillbilly logic is typical of this area.
if joe ricci’s boss’s didn’t go to governement to stay alive, then joe ricci’s business wouldn’t be taking the fall.
how you can just blindly blame the government is absurd!
Thank you johnny cakes for explaining very clearly to some of these uneducated, scared headline reading trash that continue to invade southeastern michigan
Here is a list of “socialism” as well, so get your crayons out and write down:
Police Dept
Fire Dept
Public Schools
Post Office
Border Patrol
Parks
Weekly Trash Pickup
May 16th, 2009 at 10:45 am
48124
Your point would have been better made if you were not so rude about it. What is up with the put downs and name calling. If you have a good point you do, if you dont you dont, either way name calling makes it seem like you dont. Why be so rude???
May 16th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
mary,
whats rude and offensive is the increasing uneducated population of idiots who only read headlines and then in turn repeat these ideas as if they are facts.
whats rude is to think your much smarter than you really are and then in turn act as if you really belong to a political party that doesn’t identify with your economic background and education.
you are in no position to lecture myself or anyone else on their tone.
I find it amazing how sad some of you get after your called out on your BS
May 16th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
your should be you’re
Your second paragraph makes no grammatical sense. Try a period or a comma; talking about uneducated.
Who are you to tell me what position I am in?
BTW, I am not uneducated, I have two masters’ degrees and a doctorate.
May 17th, 2009 at 11:28 am
the funny thing is that your view and mine seem to be the same, yet like a typical chick, you would rather argue about my tone, and approach instead of the acutal subject at hand. (which was idiots in this area)
May 18th, 2009 at 12:39 am
I think you left yourself wide open on that one Mary. The subject was “uneducated idiots”. You posted your educational credentials, but you never addressed the other part. In other words, one could infer that the only correction you wished to make was concerning the adjective.
June 10th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
My opinion, good riddance! That entire organization is so far in the shade, sunlight can’t break in! I went past today, and was horrified to see the doors open! I wouldn’t even take my car there for repairs, the crew is somewhat less than spectacular.