Looks like GM maybe testing the waters of Direct Sales (Slowy Though)

All,

Came across this article on the "Wall Street Journal" this morning and was wondering if this would eventually help Telsa's position against the dealer association if GM decide to go all out direct sales in the future. The article sound like they are thinking in that direction. I wonder why :biggrin:.

"By CHRISTINA ROGERS

General Motors Co. GM +1.16% plans to expand a new online shopping tool that allows customers to bypass showrooms when buying new cars."

Full article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303492504579111752452221502.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Andre

I for one will be curious to see if the dealer association jumps all over GM about the obvious direction they are trying to go. If they get positive feedback from the online service, we all know they will capitalize on that and Tesla will be responsible for starting a new buyers experience. The other manufactures will follow with their own online sites, car sales men will loose jobs other than providing people with test drives of the car they are planning to purchase online.

Don't be surprised if either dealers or manufactures start going for store fronts in the malls. Evan at my age it always surprises me how stagnant big companies become toward innovation and truly new ideas. They always seem to have to play catchup to the new kids on the block with a fresh approach to a business model and then at first they try to discount the new innovation's success before timidly getting on board.

Just my .02

Andre