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Jason Paro (Jason_79)
New member
Username: Jason_79
Post Number: 1
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Monday, September 30, 2002 - 4:18 am: | |
speaking of dealerships,I live about 20 min from cleveland but everytime I take my 308 in for its service I have to drive two hours to a factory ferrari dealer. Does anyone know of a closer dealer in Ohio. |
Dave328GTB (Hardtop)
Member
Username: Hardtop
Post Number: 257
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, September 29, 2002 - 10:56 pm: | |
It's economics. 50 dealers divided into 1000-1100 cars/year is not enough cars for a viable business. Especially when the larger ones may get 50 and the small ones 10.
Dave |
Doug Meredith (Doug308)
Junior Member
Username: Doug308
Post Number: 201
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 9:08 am: | |
Only so many Ferraris are imported in, and each dealer has an allotment for the year. By opening a new dealer and giving him an allotment, you will be taking cars away from another dealer to sell. Unless Ferrari can increase production, to give an allotment to a new dealer would take away cars from another dealer. |
Mark (Markg)
Member
Username: Markg
Post Number: 265
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 8:57 am: | |
Demographics also play a part I'm sure - Santa Fe has some serious money but the rest of NM does not (or as one NM WEB site puts it: "we have a large available workforce")...
I have been know to drive from Colorado Springs to Sante Fe just to get a good lunch, but I wouldn't exit my F car in Albuquerque on a bet!...PS, I grew up in Gallup |
Martin (Miami348ts)
Advanced Member
Username: Miami348ts
Post Number: 2890
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 8:18 am: | |
Doug,
that is not correct. The guy from Santa Fe would also buy a car so the backlog would not get longer but it would give the guy from Santa Fe the opportunity of buying in his home town/State and having a qualified F-mechanic work hon his/he car without crossing borders to get a service done.
I wonder if it would void his warranty if he gets the oil change done by Jiffy Lube instead of Ferrari. |
Doug Meredith (Doug308)
Junior Member
Username: Doug308
Post Number: 200
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 7:04 am: | |
With the current number of dealers, Ferrari sells all their cars that they send to the US and they always have a backlog. More dealers would mean greater backlog and less money in profit per dealer. Unless Ferrari increases production significantly, they probably won't give any new franchises. |
Dave Wapinski (Davewapinski)
Member
Username: Davewapinski
Post Number: 351
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 11:05 pm: | |
What brought this to mind was NM. I was told, but do not have first hand knowledge, that NM does not have a Ferrari dealer. This means no dealer for Santa Fe or Alb (you expect me to spell it?). I have always been amazed at the money that flows through Santa Fe. I have stood in Shedonies (sp) and watched someone write a check for $500,000.00 for a work of a living artist.
With the money that flows, the weather, roads that would be great for Ferraris, it seems there might be a market.
There are what, at least 3 major cities in Ohio. Yet only one small dealership.
Hence the question.
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Hans E. Hansen (4re_gt4)
Junior Member
Username: 4re_gt4
Post Number: 197
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 10:59 pm: | |
$$$ aren't the only criteria. They closed a bunch of dealers a decade or so ago, supposedly to help the viability of those that would remain. |
Horsefly (Arlie)
Member
Username: Arlie
Post Number: 261
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 10:08 pm: | |
Wouldn't a dealership be required to have a service department to fix cars under warranty? And a service department means that you would have to hire mechanics who know how to work on Ferraris. Outside of a few major metropolitan areas, how many knowledgable Ferrari mechanics
can there be? I believe that a Ferrari dealer in South Dakota or Montana would probably end up spending most of his time playing checkers with the Maytag repairman. |
Matt Lemus (Mlemus)
Junior Member
Username: Mlemus
Post Number: 144
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 9:48 pm: | |
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Dave Wapinski (Davewapinski)
Member
Username: Davewapinski
Post Number: 350
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 9:48 pm: | |
I am asking out of coursity, not out of planned action.
I thought that every state would have a Ferrari dealership.
I found this is not true.
Does Ferrari give out new dealerships and, if so, what is the deciding criteria? |