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Elena Ford on the Ford Signature Experience
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<blockquote data-quote="13COBRA" data-source="post: 16300026" data-attributes="member: 138337"><p>Those costs are incredibly hard to 'pass on to consumers'. </p><p></p><p>Prices of vehicles won't absorb them. A dealer can't raise his shop rates to absorb them.</p><p></p><p>Only hope is to sell/service MORE.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm not saying Ford is alone. I mentioned much earlier that Cadillac was worse.</p><p></p><p>They literally came in to every Cadillac store and said you need to do ____________, it's going to cost between $4-6 million. So dealers started doing it, before they were even finished, Cadillac came in and said, 'you need to change this, we decided to go another route', and it cost dealers hundreds of thousands.</p><p></p><p>Lincoln is fairly close. I believe to be a Lincoln dealer, you had to do a $1.4-1.8 milllion renovation on the showroom for specific Lincoln customers. So if you are a Ford Lincoln store, you have to have waiting lounges for each car line's customer with different requirements, etc.</p><p></p><p>Crazy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="13COBRA, post: 16300026, member: 138337"] Those costs are incredibly hard to 'pass on to consumers'. Prices of vehicles won't absorb them. A dealer can't raise his shop rates to absorb them. Only hope is to sell/service MORE. I'm not saying Ford is alone. I mentioned much earlier that Cadillac was worse. They literally came in to every Cadillac store and said you need to do ____________, it's going to cost between $4-6 million. So dealers started doing it, before they were even finished, Cadillac came in and said, 'you need to change this, we decided to go another route', and it cost dealers hundreds of thousands. Lincoln is fairly close. I believe to be a Lincoln dealer, you had to do a $1.4-1.8 milllion renovation on the showroom for specific Lincoln customers. So if you are a Ford Lincoln store, you have to have waiting lounges for each car line's customer with different requirements, etc. Crazy. [/QUOTE]
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