Caroline Grossinger

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(Free-Press-Release.com) June 19, 2009 -- he Grossinger Autoplex is massive. It's a maze of cars, customers and jobs. The last point is one of the more pressing reasons why plenty of people in the business say that any plan to close dealerships would be too painful.

"That’s the concern about closing these dealers is that I personally do not want to see these dealers close because it's a lot of jobs," said Caroline Grossinger.

Grossinger responded to the content of the open letter to the president's auto industry task force. It appeared in newspapers today. It was from the chair of the Chicago Automobile Trade Association, who says the plan to cut 2,600 general motors dealerships would be a disaster.

"Car dealerships are, if not the largest source of sales tax, one of the largest sources of sales tax," said Tim Wiberg of Lincolnwood.

Caroline Grossinger says; why not simply allow the weak dealerships to fail on their own?

"I think we would naturally lose and the ones that, that continue would be the ones that could survive," said Grossinger.

That’s not the view among the task force members. They believe one way to save General Motors is to cut the number of GM Dealerships to reduce expenses. That would mean fewer places for you to buy a car or get yours serviced.

That would be an inconvenience, which is certainly not pleasant, but far less daunting than the prospect of substantial job cuts, which may now be an unavoidable part of the plan to save GM

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