Article: Local dealers say no news is good news

Local General Motors dealerships say they are unaffected by the company's decision to eliminate 1,100 dealerships.

By Bill McCarthy

bmccarthy@wyomingnews.com

CHEYENNE - Three local General Motors dealerships said Friday they don't believe GM's elimination of one-in-five franchises will affect them.

General Motors on Friday told about 1,100 of its dealers that they would be dropped by late next year.

Chrysler decided a day earlier to eliminate a quarter of its dealerships, about 790. Five of those are in Wyoming, but none in Cheyenne.

Halladay Motors of Cheyenne is a GM dealer.

"They sent out the letters by FedEx, and I didn't get one," Tim Joannides, president and general manager of ...

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