AUTOS: Dealers support GM's Wagoner

April 8, 2006

General Motors Corp. car dealers also threw their weight behind chief executive Rick Wagoner on Friday, days after the automaker's board of directors expressed a vote of confidence in him.

Dealers, including the heads of AutoNation Inc. and UnitedAuto Group Inc., placed a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal on Friday stating that "Rick Wagoner and GM are taking very bold steps and they are making a difference."

"America loves a good comeback story, and GM is going to be one of the best."

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AUTOS: Dealers support GM's Wagoner*

*Well, with one exception anyway...

April 8, 2006

General Motors Corp. car dealers also threw their weight behind chief executive Rick Wagoner on Friday, days after the automaker's board of directors expressed a vote of confidence in him.

Dealers, including the heads of AutoNation Inc. and UnitedAuto Group Inc., placed a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal on Friday stating that "Rick Wagoner and GM are taking very bold steps and they are making a difference."

"America loves a good comeback story, and GM is going to be one of the best."

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FTFY :AH-HA_wink:

-RBB

this is buickman bait!

looks like a bunch of brown-nosers , too bad the GM dealer profits pay for the losses at the import stores in these publicly held outfits

Fack them. These are the same people who mark up prices on the cars and then bitch about why the don’t sell.

what else exactly would they say?

Let's face it: there absolutely must be some information that Wagoner and the Board cannot MUST not share with the media or public. Some of that information may be shared (leaked?) to certain stakeholders. The dealers certainly are one of those stakeholders.

I don't know what dealer arrangements are like in the States, but it can't be easy to sell ice cream in a 50,000 sq ft facility with parking for 500 cars..............

Didn't a bunch of GM dealers get sneak peaks at some of GM's upcoming product? Maybe they're very enthusiastic about what the future cars being developed under Rick's Regime.

Let's face it: there absolutely must be some information that Wagoner and the Board cannot MUST not share with the media or public.  Some of that information may be shared (leaked?) to certain stakeholders.  The dealers certainly are one of those stakeholders. 

  I don't know what dealer arrangements are like in the States, but it can't be easy to sell ice cream in a 50,000 sq ft facility with parking for 500 cars..............

lol... 500 cars?

we've got a parking garage that can handle almost 500 cars

with 20 acres of cars... it better be some good ice cream