>Now customers are used to waiting and nothing really catastrophic happened to the dealer or the OEM. In fact profits went up substantially. "Nothing catastrop

>Now customers are used to waiting and nothing really catastrophic happened to the dealer or the OEM. In fact profits went up substantially. "Nothing catastrophic happened to the dealer" only in a world where dealership employees don't count. My VW dealer had to lay people off, not enough volume. >Dealerships hate carrying extra inventory because it costs money to finance the vehicles until they sell them. Well, yeah, this is literally every single retail business anywhere. Who wants to carry inventory? The point is to turn it over ASAP. That doesn't mean the optimal level of inventory is zero.