BMW wipes out dealerships in Europe

[jp1984]

Originally Posted by pr0gi

What about my precious discounts

Install Honey for all your coupon code needs!

[DocL]

Originally Posted by jp1984

Nope! Now those will be added automatically, with one of those light gray boxes right next to it that are already checked, but for some reason you can't unclick it.

No matter how hard you try/ what you do.

Then you see you are about to be timed out on your order, but you have already waited in queue for an 390 minutes, plus you got in the "special allocation" queue, which is even harder to get back into.

So you can roll the dice with calling BMW HQ to get that removed, but ya know, then you end up in a phone tree and never speak to anyone.

Eventually your car arrives and they forgot to do the $900 PPF AND you paid for it. Sales manager says contact BMW HQ because they did the order - BMW HQ says contact local dealership because they have the car.



I think I will stick to classics from now on haha.

Checkmate. You nailed it.

[F32Fleet]

This is going to be hard for BMW because they're going to have to further reduce capacity inorder to keep remaining factories running.

Automakers make money floorplanning. They loose that with Direct Sales.

[BMWCCA1]

Originally Posted by F32Fleet

Automakers make money floorplanning. They loose that with Direct Sales.

Banks make the interest income from floor-planning. Manufacturers generally eat that cost under delayed-billing programs to get dealers to take surplus production or slow-selling models.

[F32Fleet]

Originally Posted by BMWCCA1

Banks make the interest income from floor-planning. Manufacturers generally eat that cost under delayed-billing programs to get dealers to take surplus production or slow-selling models.

Interesting. I was led to believe that the manufacturers provided the financing through their financing arm (ex BMWFS).

Thanks for the clarification.

[BMWCCA1]

Originally Posted by F32Fleet

Interesting. I was led to believe that the manufacturers provided the financing through their financing arm (ex BMWFS).

Some do and some don't. And dealers are not obligated to use the manufacturer if they don't want to. A bank is still a bank.

[chris719]

Originally Posted by SpartanFan

Yep, my sales rep didn't even know that the HK radio was available and had a customer waiting for it to be available to order. This forum provides so much more valuable info that the dealerships.

Last summer, I called a dealership in the South that had a few of the last M2 Competitions in transit in the US. The one I called on was already sold, but they asked if I wanted another they had coming. I said no thanks, I don't want DCT, only manual. The salesperson said, no, the M2 Competition doesn't come in manual, only the regular M2 does. I suggested it was the G8x M3/M4 that is like that, not the F87 M2, but he wasn't having it. It was at this point I just thanked him and gave up.