Jul
31
Some Chrysler Group dealers are seeing slower sales after DaimlerChrysler AG Chairman Dieter Zetsche indicated the Chrysler unit of the company may be sold.
His refusal to rule out that possibility sent shockwaves through the auto industry last month, with the ripple effect reaching Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge dealers such as Carl Galeana of the Galeana Automotive Group.
With dealerships in Florida, South Carolina and Michigan, Galeana says that, after a rough 2006, he was anticipating a “smoother year in 2007.” But “all this talk (about a Chrysler sale) has killed the month of February” from a sales standpoint.
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Many of his Michigan customers are Chrysler employees who do not appear to be in a car-buying mood now because of uncertainties about the company’s future and theirs.
Galeana’s February sales were running 50% of the month before. “I had a pretty good January, and I still think we’re going to have a good year,” he says. But news of a possible sale of Chrysler is “not what I expected.”
Chrysler Group CEO Tom LaSorda is trying to quell dealers’ concerns.
