Outraged - Autoline This Week 1605

National Rifle Association members are famous for their passionate slogan "I'll give you my gun when you take it from my cold, dead hands." Well, slogans are great but in the end they're only words. Just ask those American car dealers who, over the last few years, had their franchises unceremoniously ripped from their very live hands and were powerless to stop it.

On Autoline This Week John McElroy talks to mega dealer and author Tammy Darvish about her book "Outraged -- How Detroit and the Wall Street Car Czars Killed the American Dream" as well as two of her fellow dealers -- one former & one still fighting -- as they discuss what it's like to have corporate America try to deal independent business owners a death blow.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• cars
• auto
• John McElroy
• dealership
• car dealer
• GM
• General Motors
• Chrysler

[DUVALLAUTOMOTIVE]

This is a great video. @indyflick did you listen to the video at all? Read the SIGTARP report or Darvhish's book.

[IndyFlick]

At the end of the day all of the GM dealerships who were closed had franchise agreements with Liquidation Motor Corp, a bankrupt company formed from the old GM. If the new GM corp decided to not establish a new franchise agreement with any of the prior dealerships well then that is simply the free market and capitalism at work. It seems like these dealerships have some sort of entitlement philosophy. It's no wonder they are out of business.

[MrAudi1020]

John, please let the people finish their sentences before interrupting them, please?

[thepiuma]

Seems like i'm too much european to say anything about this without starting a massive political flamewar.

[AHAUGHT]

Great show! What an eye opener.

[TBird100636]

They should have had the owners of Westminister Dodge on this program to tell their story how they won their franchise back, but Chrysler made it impossible for them to get it back, forcing them to close for good. This was one of the oldest and most profitable Dodge dealers around before Chrysler pulled the franchise. Only thing they had wrong was an aged facility.

[brihamlin1]

@Captainbob25202000 Perhaps, but I think a more accurate assessment of his view is that he doesn't want to shift the debt of today's students to others. Sure the Feds can come in and print money and help out, but if that debt is shifted to someone else than it really isn't fair. His view is that because of inflation the cost of education is sky high...back in his day you could pay your way with summer work and part time jobs during school which is harder to do today.

[Captainbob25202000]

@brihamlin1 ron paul also wants to get rid of any type of financial aid for college students, but still he has good ideas

[brihamlin1]

Ron Paul 2012...defend the Constitution.

[dimitarttt]

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