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In the Netherlands, you go to the dealer and order a car. The car gets built to order, unless it's in inventory at a nearby dealer. The way it works in the US s
by donkeyd 11y ago
In the Netherlands, you go to the dealer and order a car. The car gets built to order, unless it's in inventory at a nearby dealer. The way it works in the US sounds needlessly complicated to me.
- PantaloonFlames 11y ago> needlessly complicated Doesn't seem complicated to me. The US system just warehouses inventory on dealer lots. Maybe because it's feasible due to geography. Allocating inventory based on prior year's sales is just a way to provide growth incentive to dealers. They don't make much money on new car sales but they do make money on the volume of retained service customers, which is indirectly related to the aggregate of new car sales from prior years. So to make money in the future, the car dealers need to expand new car sales today. Increasing sales is what the manufacturer wants. This all seems like a pretty nicely worked out system, if you ask me.
- pjspycha 11y agoHere in the US, we just bought a car and because they didn't have the model on lot anywhere, we just ordered through Toyota the exact model we wanted with all the features we wanted in preferred colors/finish. The dealership still got a cut but they helped us select the car are made the process very easy.
- donkeyd 11y agoThat's good to hear, I was under the impression that this wasn't possible.