Maserati of Kansas City

Offer 'em $5,000 - worst they can do is say no.

 

Aristocrat has been a Maserati dealer since late summer of this year. They have ordered a few cars for clients, but not sold anything in stock. It seems a majority of people that wanted a Maserati in KC have already bought them. Some potential clients have thought about buying, but then looked at the pre-owned market and have done the math. They used to be a Ferrari dealer when Horst owned the store and I am sure that Tony and Marion would like to be again, but they have enough on the board with the MB KC store opening late and Progress Point MB in St. Louis sucking wind.

 

yep, that dealer never made since to me. absolutely the wrong location (not close to the customers and hard to get into), lot never has more than 10 new cars on it and maybe 10 used luxury cars. most of their inventory is used SUV's (escalades, H2s, etc), Mustangs, Vettes, etc. constant advertising in papers, TV, shopping malls, billboards...and no business. scary

 

Yeah, not sure on Progress Point either.. It is very difficult for anyone to do business in St. Louis if they are not from St. Louis, especially if they are from Kansas City, not sure why just seems the be true. They picked the location based on the new development trends in the area.

Aristocrat is modifying the Porsche building which will also hold Maserati. The parent company that owns Aristocrat/Soave Automotive Group is a very small % of their overall holdings, less than 5%, so the issue of the lack of Maserati sales is not going to make a big overall difference.

 

Given the luxury car market especially in KC and/or other market areas these upper bracket car manf. would be wise to allow any dealer to offer their brand w/o the typical costs assoc. with being a representative dealer. With that being said if you own a Maserati you might want to be prepared to what on parts when needed so you local dealer doesn't have to cost sitting on the parts self when they can use the $ elsewhere during this down cycle.

 

Made a quick stop at the dealership today. They had a GranTurismo S and a QP in the MB showroom. Work was being done on the Porsche showroom which I assume was to make for the Maser modifications, since they share the same building. Driving around the lot saw a Bentley GT, Vantage Volante, and GranTurismo... suspect these are preowned units.
I don't think anyone thought this would become the next St. Louis Maserati dealer. I wouldn't expect much more than a few new cars in inventory at any given point.

 

Thanks for the update... I drove by there the other day and noticed the Porsche showroom was empty and wondered what was up.

 

All of the above were owned by a former customer that past away several months ago.

 

Don't know much abut the dealership but I know about fine jewelry since I've dabbled in it quite a bit, that is a really good deal on a submariner Rolex as they go anywhere from the price you origanally saw of $9200 on up to $10,000 so it would be a good buy!