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For what it is worth, we have been told by some, who are supposed
to know what they are talking about, that all higher end car
companies, at least, are doing this today because of micro
management and bean counters. Some think tank focus group or
something told them that black and silver cars are the easiest to
sell and have the highest resale value so now all the new car
dealers want to their new cars with 3 year leases to be sure that
they get them back. This way the dealer can likely sell the same
cars all over again as a CPO (certified pre-owned) and cash in on
these nice new profits. Again, black and silver CPO's sell faster
and for more money. As an aside: Wonder which million dollar
study came up with "pre-owned"? You gotta love it. So now there
are no more of those bad old "used cars". Remember when the dealer's maintenance & repair shops along
with their used car lots weren't viewed as profit centers; rather
as necessary evils to their real business? The industry was in
the business of selling new cars and nothing else. But today it's
all apart of pie charts and micro management. By the way, you can
blame this one on computers too. They facilitate this kind of
thing. Speaking of the computer industry, it too isn't immune to
overlooking real money to be made. I'm reminded of IBM (the 800
pound gorilla of the day) back in the late 70's and early 80's
when the average age of the board of directors was likely 90
something , all wearing dark suits, starched white shirts and
whichever tie was proper for the time. This was the mainframe
mentality that said: these new personal computers will never
work. People won't buy them. They are too expensive and are too
hard to use. Which is why IBM was late getting into the PC
market. BIG mistake! Our 2 cents worth. On 2/26/2018 1:01 PM, Scooter465@xxxxxxx
[Chrysler300] wrote:
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