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Suzuki expects to be down to around 900 dealers by 2011
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[QUOTE="Wolf, post: 1394451, member: 19358"] My point got lost a little bit...sorry, I will rephrase. While it may well be true that yellow is killing their dealers in CA by holding back the 2010's...I was really trying to make another point. The way I understand it, as a dealer you HAVE to carry x amount of units of brand x in your dealership every year. BRP (Skidoo, etc) is a prime example of how they work very hard at effing the dealers: A dealer may have lost 50% of OEM sales in 09 due to a down economy (I know several that are in this position), yet BRP requires them to carry the same amount of units again for 2010. So a dealer that sold 1mil of equipment in 08, then only 1/2 mil in 09 is asked to carry the same inventory as in 08, even though he still has 1/2 of his 09 inventory on the lot. So who's going to buy the left over 09 stuff and all of the 2010 inventory? Last I checked, people still aren't spending. GE (or whoever is writing the floor planning) licks its chops as they write the floorplanning and now get to collect on left over 09's as well as the 2010 inventory. The OEM (in this case BRP) in essence passes the buck directly to their own dealer, who in turn is left holding the bag...hence my conclusion that we'll lose more than 20% of the power sports dealers. I could have easily used a motorcycle manufacturer in place of BRP, but I like motorcycles and don't want to bash them...BRP on the other hand isn't on the very top of my list :) Of course this is all only my perception of how it works, if I'm wrong I'm not sorry. Oh, and Pred, :nener: [/QUOTE]
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