Auto Industry Package May Hinge On Trimming Dealerships: WSJ
Auto Industry Package May Hinge On Trimming Dealerships: WSJ

Local Pillars, Auto Dealerships Teeter as Big Three Decline
Any government help will probably come too late for thousands of dealers whose sales are evaporating along with consumer confidence and credit.

Eyes turn to auto start-ups' funding, aid requests
Auto start-ups join the Big 3 auto companies in looking to raise money through outside investments or government aid. The public isn't giving either group a free ride.

High school students take annual tree contest seriously
Between the recession, the holiday season and the fact that it was a Monday, there were a lot of reasons for the dealerships at the Valley Auto Mall in Henderson to be slow on Monday.

Feeling the pinch: States hit hard by auto collapse
When Heritage Lincoln Mercury closed in August, the city of Tustin, Calif., felt the pain. For decades, the dealership had operated out of the Tustin Auto Center ? which has 17 other franchises, from Toyota to Jeep ? and it was once among the largest Lincoln Mercury dealers in California.

Smart Car Dealer Thriving In Duke City
The sluggish economy has already caused some auto dealerships across the country to shut their doors. But one Albuquerque dealership is doing so well, its inventory is already sold out for the next year.

A Modest Proposal For The Auto Industry: Stop Building Cars
Everybody these days has some advice for the beleaguered U.S. auto industry. Bail them out. Break up the unions. Do something about the dealerships. Do something about spiraling health care and pension costs. Design cars people will love. Etc. There's always the "be more like Apple" advice that's been going around for a couple of years. Make the iPod of cars. One that people love so much that ...

Car dealers offer big deals, trying to clear out lot space
In the auto world, supply and demand is the name of the game. The problem for auto dealerships is demand is way

Car economy impacts everything
DAN ROSELAND, owner of Sonoma Chevrolet, thinks the bailout of the Big Three is necessary. David Bolling/Index-Tribune While Detroit auto executives occupy the bailout hot seat, thousands of independent auto dealerships all across the country may be the economic tail that wags the dog of the beleaguered American auto industry.

US auto dealers in fight for survival
Car dealerships in the US are likely to decline by about 900 in the current economic downturn.

Auto troubles pummel U.S. dealer network
DETROIT, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- The National Automobile Dealers Association predicts the United States could lose as many as 900 new-car dealerships in the current economic swoon.

Local pillars, U.S. auto dealers teeter
As auto sales plunge, about 900 U.S. new-car dealers are likely to go out of business this year, and just in October, 20,000 of their employees lost their jobs.

Growth in auto industry sparks challenges in rural India
SINGUR, INDIA - For generations, Prasanta Dutta and his family, like thousands of other villagers, have depended on the vast flatlands of rural West Bengal for food and income. Covered with the golden-brown dust that blankets everything, the villages near Singur are packed with peasants and farmers who grow enough vegetables to feed local villages and large swaths of India. But more than two ...

Auto-parts boss follows his dream after layoff
When parts manager Mike Bachara saw the numbers going south at Bill Heard Chevrolet in Scottsdale, he knew it was time to ramp up the side business he had started a few years earlier.

Local SUV sales up, dealership says
Aside from cash-strapped motorists, it's hard to imagine anyone being more excited about decreases in gas prices than the auto dealerships who sell big trucks and SUVs.

Auto firms' woes test customer loyalty
Any bankruptcy among Big Three is likely to cut into retention, making recovery even harder.

Cities feeling the squeeze from loss of auto dealers
n Car-sales slide cuts off flow of taxes to local governments

Car dealerships struggle to survive
AVON #8212; No customer voices competed with the harmony of #8220;Silly Love Songs #8221; flowing from the showroom speakers at Danville Chrysler Dodge Jeep.

"Nuclear winter" for car dealers
General Motors and Chrysler say they burned through a combined $34.6 billion of cash in the first nine months of this year, as U.S. auto sales have plummeted to the lowest level in more than 25 years.

Sound footing: Local auto dealers say industry has bad rap
Executives from the Big 3 automakers return to Washington this week to make another pitch to Congress for a $25 billion financial aid package they say will keep them from possibly filing bankruptcy. The Big 3 - Ford, Chrysler and General Motors - have suffered heavy criticism for making non-competitive products, corporate executives? high salaries and using private jets to fly to Washington when ...