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Old 02-25-2008, 01:02 PM   #7
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As a whole..Lithia is / has moved all of their ordering (new vehicles) to 1 centralized location along with used vehicle appraisals to Medford. With their new "Assured" pricing on ALL New & Used Vehicles, I feel that it will only be a short time before all Lithia Stores are moved to the "L2" way of selling cars. This includes New Car Franchises!! All U/C and N/C Manager positions are being or have been eliminated. My strong feeling is that it will only be a short time until the F&I Managers are gone It's SAD to see that the personalization of the car purchase (my opinion) is going away!!
Shutter - welcome to the Forum - great post.

I had a chance to listen to Lithia's Conference Call last week and I think that you're 100% correct. Management stated that they want to use their L2 Used Car Superstores as an "incubator" for processes that will be installed at all of their L1 Branded Lithia Dealerships. They believe that they can lower the "delivery cost" of the vehicle transaction by 50% with the use of centralized management.

The car business is changing so fast - it's incredible.

Thanks again for your post, I hope that you'll be a regular contributor.
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