I recently heard that they big US big 3 will be making a new rule. “You sell one, you sell them all” This is the new rule that is slowly going into effect across the country. Chrysler is going from dealership to dealership and telling the owners that if they want to stay in business that they will have to buy the selling rights to all other Chrysler brands like Jeep and Dodge.

Ford is also making the same claim to their dealerships. Dealerships across the country are hurting and the thought process behind this is that they will move more cars in less dealerships therefore, making the brand stronger as a whole.

Toyota for example has only 1400 dealerships nationwide and moves more cars than Chrysler when it only has one brand on the lot.

Your typical Dodge dealership sells not even 350 cars and trucks in a given year as opposed to a Toyota dealership sells just over a thousand in the given area.

Now, the downside. The big downfall of this will be the fallout or the many dealerships that go belly up when the deadline comes and it’s time to put up or shut-up. Dealers who fail to acquire other brands through either buying them from other dealerships on down the road or buying them off of the company itself will lose the rights to their company and have to close their doors.

Now I’m unsure how I feel about this at this juncture. I’m pleased to hear that the American car companies are not going down without a fight yet I’m sad to hear that some of your favorite places that you like to buy your cars and trucks from might be soon gone and just add to the already lose list of vacant buildings in your town or even state. And what about the car salesmen who will be out of a job? Yeah! your right they are the scum of the earth at times but they are still Americans and they still don’t deserve to be out of a job like the other 5% of the country. We’ll be watching this story close and waiting to see just what the big 3 do to make sure they stay afloat.

-ACF