It's all about selling new vehicles. I went through the same on an infinitely smaller scale when I was in the boat repair business. I added a McCulloch chainsaw dealership to take up the slack over the winter.
All McCulloch wanted you to do was sell new saws. And it was difficult to make any amount of money doing that. For one thing, they were always jacking around with prices. One time I bought 8 or 10 of a particular model of saw to fill out my inventory, and about the time they were delivered McCulloch got into a price war with Homelite and lowered the list price on that particular saw by $20. Plus, you seldom sold a new saw for list price; you always had to throw in a jug of bar oil, or whatever, to close the sale.
I could tune up a man's saw, sell him a new bar and chain, and make more money than if I'd sold him a new saw. But--McCulloch wasn't interested in after-the-sale service, all they wanted to do was sell new saws. We parted ways by mutual agreement several years later. They did buy back my entire inventory of saws and parts, though.
Right now, all the auto manufacturers want to do is sell new vehicles to clear out their inventory.
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