ETROIT The Smart minicar brand will be profitable next year, setting the stage for its rollout in the U.S. market in first-quarter 2008, says DaimlerChrysler AG Chairman Dieter Zetsche. The time is right for Smart, and Smart is right for the...
The GM-Renault-Nissan story is grabbing the headlines, but the DaimlerChrysler-Smart-UAG story is more important. The day before Kirk Kerkorian dropped his bombshell suggestion to sell part of General Motors to Renault and Nissan, DaimlerChrysler...
The most profitable sale you can make is one from your stocked inventory. Not having the part in your inventory is telling an unhappy customer, Sorry, we'll have to order it. At this point, the customer either goes elsewhere or the dealership gets...
The new chairwoman of the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Assn. is Sheila Meyer, dealer principal of the oldest Chevy dealership in the state, Meyer Chevrolet in Queens. She is the third woman to head the association in its 96-year history...
Speaking to the Florida Automobile Dealers Assn. convention, I related this bit of ancestry: My late father was editor of Automotive News way back. He had a deep respect for dealers and felt they more than many others in the industry knew what was...