Thread: Where did all the NSW dealers go?

Originally Posted by Andrewpv01

There used to be a dealer in Bathurst. When did they close?

Andrew

Earlier this year mate. Matt

Its annoying because Land Rover have made a range of vehicles that will sell, but people wont buy them because there isnt anywhere to buy them, how hard would it be to get a dealership to be authorised to sell and service them, like Heyer Ford does in Dubbo, and Clancy Motors (Ford and Mitsubishi) in Bathurst. If there were places to get them serviced then people would buy them. Matt

Is Heyer Ford still an agent? they seem to have taken down all the signs.

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Is Heyer Ford still an agent? they seem to have taken down all the signs.

John

LRA website shows Dubbo Land Rover, 66-72 Windosr Pde, Dubbo

Ron

Originally Posted by p38arover

LRA website shows Dubbo Land Rover, 66-72 Windosr Pde, Dubbo

Ron

That's Heyer Ford's back entrance - drove past there on Wednesday, and noted there were no Landrover signs - only Ford and Volvo.

John

Originally Posted by Ace

how hard would it be to get a dealership to be authorised to sell and service them,

Pretty hard. There is a hell of a lot of specific knowledge required and special service tools neccessary to properly maintain current Land Rover products. All of that costs big $$$ and most car dealers don't want to know about it.

Originally Posted by BigJon

Pretty hard. There is a hell of a lot of specific knowledge required and special service tools neccessary to properly maintain current Land Rover products. All of that costs big $$$ and most car dealers don't want to know about it.

I feel that this is one of the main reasons that only the big city dealerships mostly remain. Everything comes back to the mighty dollar.

Originally Posted by ak

I feel that this is one of the main reasons that only the big city dealerships mostly remain. Everything comes back to the mighty dollar.

Landrover's problem is that unlike their competitors, they do not sell any mass market cars - consider Toyota (Landcruiser), Nissan (Patrol), Holden (Rodeo), for example - to share the overhead needed for dealers. The only way to get round this would be for them to become integrated with Ford, and this would be counter to Ford's attempts to have them seen as upmarket compared to Ford - cf Toyota/Lexus. But the Lexus cars are thinly disguised versions of Toyotas so that little additional training and tools are required, where Landrovers have almost nothing in common with run of the mill Fords.

The only alternative would be for Ford to target the workhorse market and build up a sufficient volume that way to support dealers. This would be a high risk strategy unless Ford could have the workhorse vehicles made somewhere cheap, and even then they could not expect to build up numbers without an extensive dealer network that they would need to support until there were enough vehicles in use to do so. And I see no signs of Ford planning to do this.