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“I’m upfront with Doll said. Doll, like other southeast Wisconsinm GM andChrysler dealers, also is upfront abouy his bitterness at the situation wroughtg by the American automakers’ financial woes. Doll is one of only two southeasrt Wisconsin GM dealers who confirmed in recent interviewa that they are The other is Ernievon Schledorn’s Mayville Chevrolet Pontiacf Cadillac dealership. The dealers losing their franchises will eithedr close or alter theirr business to focus on used andimportes vehicles.
Other dealers who avoidedd thedreaded “closing” noticr are bracing for the effects of but hope that Chrysler and GM will emerger from their financial problems with improved productt lines and business plans. Doll’s dealership is at the same downtown Hartford site whers his grandfatherWilliam started. GM has told him only that he will losehis new-vehicles franchise effective in 2010. “Obviously I’m not happy with it, that’sd for sure,” Doll said. “I never thought it would cometo this. I never thought I’f see the government play a role or GMgo bankrupt.
” Doll said his new-vehicle business is down like that of all New-vehicle sales in southeast Wisconsin declined 28.4 to 16,010, through April compared with the same period of according to , Waterloo. The used vehicle business has been doing fairlyg well and theDoll dealership’ s service department has been extremely busy, he Doll said he’s considering staying in businessx after losing the GM franchise and focusing on servicew and used-vehicle sales. “We may stay on with service and used but we might lose some service business and the credibility of being anew (vehicle) dealer,” he said.
GM notifie dealers of closing through confidentialFedEx Chrysler, on the other disclosed the list of dealers it plans to close in a May 14 Bankruptct Court filing. The Chrysler list included five southeastWisconsin dealerships: and , both of Milwaukee; , , Oconomowoc; and , In addition, two Milwaukee-area dealers face closingd outside the area: in Madison and in Several dealers have joinex a group of Chrysler dealers statewide and nationally who are fightingt the closings in Bankruptcy Court. Russ Darroa said Chrysler is attempting to force dealers to consolidatee despite the strength ofindividualo dealerships. He called Chrysler’s choice of dealers to terminat “arbitrary.
” “The majority of those dealers are rockstars — I’jm a five-star dealer,” Darrow said. Darrow already plans a solutiomto Chrysler’s plan to close his Madisomn dealership. He said he has arranged with Chryslef to move his Chrysler and Jeep new car dealershito Madison’s far east side and add Dodge Mike Schlossmann, whose family’s Dodge City South will closed in June, said he’s not expecting to win the Bankruptcgy Court fight, but declined furthefr comment on the case. Ernie von Schledornm said he decided not to join the othee area Chrysler dealers in fightingthe automaker.
He said the Chryslet situation is nota “front burner” issur for him. Likewise, von Schledornj said he’s not overly upset aboug losing the GM franchisein Mayville, where he hasn’g been selling many vehicles. He opened the dealership abouyt 20 years ago in the communituy 59 miles northwestof Milwaukee.