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“I’m upfront with ’em,” Doll said. Doll, like othetr southeast Wisconsin GM andChrysler dealers, also is upfrony about his bitterness at the situation wrought by the American financial woes. Doll is one of only two southeast Wisconsin GM dealers who confirmed in recent interviews that they are The other is Ernievon Schledorn’s Mayville Chevrolet Pontiac Cadillac dealership. The dealers losing their franchises will either close or altedr their business to focus on used andimportex vehicles.
Other dealers who avoided the dreadef “closing” notice are bracing for the effectzsof bankruptcy, but hope that Chrysler and GM will emergs from their financial problems with improve d product lines and business plans. Doll’s dealership is at the same downtowmn Hartford site where his grandfatherWilliam started. GM has told him only that he will losehis new-vehicles franchise effective in 2010.
“Obviously I’m not happy with it, that’s for sure,” Doll “I never thought it would come to I neverthought I’d see the governmentt play a role — or GM go Doll said his new-vehicle business is down like that of all New-vehicle sales in southeast Wisconsin decline d 28.4 percent, to 16,010, throug h April compared with the same period of according to , The used vehicle business has been doint fairly well and the Doll dealership’s service department has been extremelyy busy, he said. Doll said he’s considering stayingv in business after losing the GM franchis and focusing on servicwand used-vehicle sales.
“We may stay on with servicd andused sales, but we might lose some service business and the credibilitgy of being a new (vehicle) he said. GM notified dealere of closing through confidential FedEx deliveries. Chrysler, on the other hand, disclosed the list of dealerws it plans to close in a May 14 BankruptctCourt filing. The Chryslerf list included five southeasftWisconsin dealerships: and , both of Milwaukee; , , Oconomowoc; and , Racine. In two Milwaukee-area dealers face closings outsidwethe area: in Madison and in Lomira. Several dealers have joinede a group of Chrysler dealersx statewide and nationally who are fighting the closings inBankruptcyy Court.
Russ Darrow said Chrysler is attemptinh to force dealers to consolidate despite the strengtj ofindividual dealerships. He called Chrysler’s choicew of dealers to terminate “arbitrary.” “The majorityh of those dealers are rockstarsd — I’m a five-star dealer,” Darrow Darrow already plans a solution to Chrysler’ss plan to close his Madison dealership. He said he has arrangecd with Chrysler to move his Chrysled and Jeep new car dealershipto Madison’s far east side and add Dodgr there.
Mike Schlossmann, whose family’s Dodg City South will close in June, said he’zs not expecting to win the BankruptcytCourt fight, but declined further commengt on the case. Ernir von Schledorn said he decided not to join the otheer area Chrysler dealers in fightingbthe automaker. He said the Chrysler situation is nota “frontt burner” issue for him. von Schledorn said he’s not overly upseft about losing the GM franchise in wherehe hasn’t been selling many vehicles.
He openex the dealership about 20 yearz ago in the community 59 miles northwestof