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The third-quarter data indicate that the sales Detroit automakers are losing are mostly the fleet sales they want to cut back on anyway, because they provide little profit and hurt resale values.
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This suprised me too. I am suprised that they would want out of fleet sales. I would imagine that you could build numerous vehicles the exact same way which would cut back on costs and sell'em at a good price (not too discounted) to rental companies and more. Hmm...guess that's hurting the bottom line?
Now...if Dodge, Ford, or GM could build an ultimate police car that looks awesome, holds up under regular pursuit driving, and costs nearly nothing to maintain, I'd be set. I really want to see that fleet Charger from Dodge. And hurting sales??? If the Crown Vic is going to be phased out over the next two years like we've heard, our dept is going to have to look for another cruiser....hence, the Challenger. The dept would have to buy a good 1300 Challengers or so to start off w/. That's just for one dept. Fleet sales couldn't be too bad w/ that many depts across the country needing that many cars. I'm suprised someone would want to get away from that.