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#16
Lexus Fanatic
#17
Lexus Champion
Funny thing about the rouge, I personally know 7 people with them. It's for some reason THE default choice for people who don't care about cars at all and want something with AWD
#18
Lexus Fanatic
Its cheap, they're decent looking. My cousin had one, he just traded it in on a Jeep Cherokee (from mediocrity to mediocrity)...it was reasonably good looking, capable but SO slow. I drove it to and from WV one time and in the mountains on the highway it was so underpowered.
#19
Lexus Fanatic
#20
Lexus Fanatic
#22
Lexus Champion
#23
Lexus Fanatic
Originally Posted by FrankReynoldsCPA
Nissan's loose credit policies have something to do with this.
There's a reason nissan is the most common new car in bad neighborhoods.
There's a reason nissan is the most common new car in bad neighborhoods.
Mitsubishi has a reputation for marketing to even lower-income/lower-credit people than Nissan....but Nissan, at least, still has a string of dealerships. Mitsubishi has allowed their American-market dealerships to dwindle down to almost nothing.
#24
Lexus Test Driver
Chicken or the egg on that front. No sense operating a vast dealer network if nobody's buying your cars.
#25
Lexus Champion
Damn, I was really rooting for the Ford Transit van.....🤣🤣🤣🤣
Last edited by AMIRZA786; 04-23-24 at 09:02 AM.
#26
Lexus Fanatic
Come on Transit Van! You can do it!
#27
Lexus Fanatic
We've discussed this issue before in Car Chat....the chicken or the egg? Which caused which? Did sales fall off because the manufacturer allowed too many dealerships to close up, dealerships, or did dealerships close because they simply could not sell enough vehicles to make a profit?
While there is an element of truth in both views, I personally am of the opinion (and rather strongly) that you cannot sell what you don't have outlets and dealerships for. The more dealerships shut down, the fewer of them remain....and the harder it is for the remaining customers and potential customers to reach them.
I ran into this first-hand with a friend of mine a few years ago, who lived in Carson City, NV. He was interested in a new Mitsubishi Outlander Sport, primarily because of its versatility, low price, long Hyundai-like warranty, reasonably good build quality, and a cheap simple way to get AWD. So, I did a dealer-search for him, and the nearest Mitsubishi dealership was some 80 or 90 miles away, on the other side of Lake Tahoe, in California. That, unfortunately, put an end to that.
While there is an element of truth in both views, I personally am of the opinion (and rather strongly) that you cannot sell what you don't have outlets and dealerships for. The more dealerships shut down, the fewer of them remain....and the harder it is for the remaining customers and potential customers to reach them.
I ran into this first-hand with a friend of mine a few years ago, who lived in Carson City, NV. He was interested in a new Mitsubishi Outlander Sport, primarily because of its versatility, low price, long Hyundai-like warranty, reasonably good build quality, and a cheap simple way to get AWD. So, I did a dealer-search for him, and the nearest Mitsubishi dealership was some 80 or 90 miles away, on the other side of Lake Tahoe, in California. That, unfortunately, put an end to that.
#29
Lexus Champion
We've discussed this issue before in Car Chat....the chicken or the egg? Which caused which? Did sales fall off because the manufacturer allowed too many dealerships to close up, dealerships, or did dealerships close because they simply could not sell enough vehicles to make a profit?
While there is an element of truth in both views, I personally am of the opinion (and rather strongly) that you cannot sell what you don't have outlets and dealerships for. The more dealerships shut down, the fewer of them remain....and the harder it is for the remaining customers and potential customers to reach them.
I ran into this first-hand with a friend of mine a few years ago, who lived in Carson City, NV. He was interested in a new Mitsubishi Outlander Sport, primarily because of its versatility, low price, long Hyundai-like warranty, reasonably good build quality, and a cheap simple way to get AWD. So, I did a dealer-search for him, and the nearest Mitsubishi dealership was some 80 or 90 miles away, on the other side of Lake Tahoe, in California. That, unfortunately, put an end to that.
While there is an element of truth in both views, I personally am of the opinion (and rather strongly) that you cannot sell what you don't have outlets and dealerships for. The more dealerships shut down, the fewer of them remain....and the harder it is for the remaining customers and potential customers to reach them.
I ran into this first-hand with a friend of mine a few years ago, who lived in Carson City, NV. He was interested in a new Mitsubishi Outlander Sport, primarily because of its versatility, low price, long Hyundai-like warranty, reasonably good build quality, and a cheap simple way to get AWD. So, I did a dealer-search for him, and the nearest Mitsubishi dealership was some 80 or 90 miles away, on the other side of Lake Tahoe, in California. That, unfortunately, put an end to that.
#30
Lexus Fanatic
We've discussed this issue before in Car Chat....the chicken or the egg? Which caused which? Did sales fall off because the manufacturer allowed too many dealerships to close up, dealerships, or did dealerships close because they simply could not sell enough vehicles to make a profit?
While there is an element of truth in both views, I personally am of the opinion (and rather strongly) that you cannot sell what you don't have outlets and dealerships for. The more dealerships shut down, the fewer of them remain....and the harder it is for the remaining customers and potential customers to reach them.
I ran into this first-hand with a friend of mine a few years ago, who lived in Carson City, NV. He was interested in a new Mitsubishi Outlander Sport, primarily because of its versatility, low price, long Hyundai-like warranty, reasonably good build quality, and a cheap simple way to get AWD. So, I did a dealer-search for him, and the nearest Mitsubishi dealership was some 80 or 90 miles away, on the other side of Lake Tahoe, in California. That, unfortunately, put an end to that.
While there is an element of truth in both views, I personally am of the opinion (and rather strongly) that you cannot sell what you don't have outlets and dealerships for. The more dealerships shut down, the fewer of them remain....and the harder it is for the remaining customers and potential customers to reach them.
I ran into this first-hand with a friend of mine a few years ago, who lived in Carson City, NV. He was interested in a new Mitsubishi Outlander Sport, primarily because of its versatility, low price, long Hyundai-like warranty, reasonably good build quality, and a cheap simple way to get AWD. So, I did a dealer-search for him, and the nearest Mitsubishi dealership was some 80 or 90 miles away, on the other side of Lake Tahoe, in California. That, unfortunately, put an end to that.
A business cannot pay the overhead for a dealer network if they don't have sales to justify that network. A company that reduces their number of dealerships did so because their sales no longer justified having that many dealerships. It becomes a vicious cycle, because like you say lack of dealers keeps customers from being able to buy the product...but if customers were buying enough of the product they never would have closed the dealers. A business can only pay non performing overhead for so long hoping for a turnaround until they have to make hard decisions and reduce that overhead. Also bear in mind that carmakers don't own and operate dealers, they are independently owned and operated. With nobody wanting to buy Mitsubishi cars, those owners decided not to continue with their Mistubishi franchises and closed them down. Again...no buyers...no dealers.
"Hope" is not a strategy.
Last edited by SW17LS; 04-23-24 at 09:17 AM.