On 06/29/2013 05:25 PM, Cor van de Water wrote: > Why would a car manufacturer be *forced* to use a channel, while in > every other industry the manufacturer is free to choose which business > model works for him? Makes no sense to me and that is why I support > Tesla - every manufacturer can decide if he wants to carry the expense > and headache of direct customer contacts or allow a dealer to take that > off their hands and just concentrate on designing, building and shipping > cars.
Actually there are other industries where the manufacturers are prohibited from selling direct. Usually as a result of monopolistic pricing/practices. On 06/30/2013 06:23 PM, Chris Tromley wrote: > The ADA is likely to lose this battle and their monolithic paradigm for > auto sales. They did it to themselves. This might be just as big an > automotive advance as the Model S. I'm not sure they're likely to lose this particular battle in the courts. Auto dealers are huge contributors to the political machine. BUT I think long-term the industry is changing. --Rick _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
