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[Mike K.]

Totally. And there's a much higher likelihood of a sale if the salesman says "let me pull up this one, it's $10k less, and I think it's well within your budget. I don't think we've even removed the plastic covers yet." The pressure on the buyer to close the deal just became 10x stronger.

[Kapten Kapsell]

I might have posted this in the retailer thread a while back, but the new owners of the Hyundai dealership intend to relocate it as welll..

[aastra]

Parking garage behind a dealership in Florida...

 

 

Note the absolutely massive parking structures, as the current trend is to have as much inventory on site as possible. The industry people say that customers increasingly like to browse rows rather than catalogs.

 

So exactly how common are such large storage garages today? And how common should we expect them to be in the near future?

 

Edit: another one at an auto mall in Maryland...

Edited by aastra, 21 November 2019 - 10:12 AM.

[LJ]

FWIW, both VW and Porsche are in the last stages of their approval processes for new dealerships in Richmond. The design is always dictated by corporate, so the new Victoria locations may be similar. Note the absolutely massive parking structures, as the current trend is to have as much inventory on site as possible. The industry people say that customers increasingly like to browse rows rather than catalogs.

 

 

 

 

They must have a different model than other manufacturers have. Dealers are paying a "floor" charge for having the vehicles on their lots so they don't want to have a lot of vehicles in inventory. 

[Jackerbie]

^ Not sure it's the manufacturer, more likely it's the dealership. Richmond Auto Mall is Open Road Auto and the Dilawri Group, and all of the dealerships in it are going this way. Toyota is under construction now and will have 300 dedicated spaces for inventory and another 300 spaces "for staff and customers."

 

That said, Richmond is one of the locations where the car carriers unload, so it makes sense to have more inventory than usual here to supply other dealerships in the same family.

[RFS]

Toyota Victoria is by far the highest volume dealer in town and they have no such warehouse on site

[Mike K.]

They have a yard in Vic West 5 mins away.

[rjag]

Toyota Victoria is by far the highest volume dealer in town and they have no such warehouse on site

 

They have offsite storage. lots of dealers do. Just go across teh Bay Bridge and you'll see a fenced yard full of new Hyundais I think, or across from Running Room on View there was a yard full of new cars. 

 

Gain has storage sites all over the CRD, Carsons dont need to as their lots are massive and they own 1/2 of Victoria

[lanforod]

A parkade doesn't seem to make sense to me though. Whats wrong with a lot a short drive away? It's not like we're that short of land here.

[Jackerbie]

A parkade doesn't seem to make sense to me though. Whats wrong with a lot a short drive away? It's not like we're that short of land here.

 

If you have the space on site to store vehicles, that frees up other property for redevelopment or other uses. I don't know where Open Road Toyota in Richmond previously stored their inventory, but the new dealership under construction has a four storey parkade with space for 600 vehicles. 

 

The lower mainland of course has a much different industrial space demand than the CRD, but development pressure in Vic West and Rock bay could change that dynamic. The forward thinking dealers may be wise to make big moves now.

[shoeflack]

...or across from Running Room on View there was a yard full of new cars. 

 

*Frontrunners...blast from the past...that was back in 2007 or 2008 when they stopped using that lot to store cars.

[Mike K.]

Check out the ...Pleasure-Way Tofino! https://pleasureway.com/models/tofino/

 

It's no CyBeRtruCk, but it is the first vehicle to be named after an Island town.

[Rob Randall]

^Wow, pushing $200,000 with all the options. Still cheaper than a high-season suite at a Tofino resort.

[sebberry]

https://www.nanaimob...p-picket-lines/
 

Workers at auto dealerships in Nanaimo and Victoria set up picket lines
Sixty GAIN Group detailers, technicians, service advisors went on strike Friday

GAIN Group Subaru and Mercedes-Benz dealerships in Nanaimo and Three Point Motors in Victoria are behind picket lines.

Sixty automotive detailers, technicians and service advisors who are unionized under the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Local 456, went on strike Friday morning in a dispute with GAIN Group over wages and benefits to be included in a new labour contract.

[spanky123]

^ While I understand that the GAIN group may very well be in the right when it comes to their dispute with the taxpayers of the Cowichan Valley and now their own employees, I have to wonder what management is thinking. We are living in a world where socialists are poised to pounce on any business or person who they feel represents wealth and we have a group loading the cannons for them.

[Victoria Watcher]

at least some of the nanaimo workers want a 33% raise.  all want at least 3% per year for 3 years.  that's what the company is not a fan of.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 15 December 2019 - 01:08 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

We are living in a world where socialists are poised to pounce on any business or person who they feel represents wealth and we have a group loading the cannons for them.

 

can you cite examples where the mob left has actually caused harm to a company with their protests or threatened or actual boycotts?  there is social media rage over everything nowadays.  social media is not real life.  canada goose is still selling coats and exxon is selling gas and chick-fil-a is still selling chickens and citigroup is still selling whatever they sell. 

 

show biz and media that's a different situation.  but regular old companies do just fine.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 15 December 2019 - 01:12 PM.

[spanky123]

can you cite examples where the mob left has actually caused harm to a company with their protests or threatened or actual boycotts?  there is social media rage over everything nowadays.  social media is not real life.  canada goose is still selling coats and exxon is selling gas and chick-fil-a is still selling chickens. 

 

show biz and media that's a different situation.  but regular old companies do just fine.

 

Name a company where adverse social media has had an impact?! Do you want them alphabetically, by City or by industry segment?!

 

For starters, how about Starbucks shutting down every store in the country for a day to address black men being asked to leave a store and having the police called when they refused.

Edited by spanky123, 15 December 2019 - 01:25 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

oh companies react in all kinds of crazy ways. 

 

but which are actually harmed?  which have closed or lost money or lost stock value etc.?

 

peloton

 

 

starbucks - incident was april 2018

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 15 December 2019 - 01:53 PM.

[spanky123]

^ Most companies start the apology tour immediately after the goof up which is why they limit their brand damage.

 

My point with GAIN is that they don't seem to care or acknowledge that they screwed up. My guess is that they thought that the community would pressure Cowichan Councillors which is why they threatened the lawsuit. Lo and behold the majority of the community turned against them instead encouraging the Mayor to stand up against the "bully".  Makes wonder if the strike was timed to take advantage of the situation.