Actually, this isn't at all what BMW did with the Mini. They offered the
franchise to a subset of their dealers; those with exceptional performance
ratings and the willingness to build (expensive) stand-alone Mini facilities,
among other criteria.
This was certainly not a "just hang a shingle" approach and required a good
deal of faith and investment on the part of the selected dealers. The other
side of the coin is that many BMW dealers (most, actually) in the U.S. didn't
make the cut (and some lacked the faith to take the plunge).
Bob Sharp
Michigan
'64-ish TR4
-----Original Message-----
>>>>Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:30:04 +0100
>>>>From: a Triumph list member
>>>>Subject: Re: [TR] MGs to be built in USA
>>>>Presumably NankyPooh Motors already have some form of distribution set-up
>in
>>>>place? If so, then it would be easy to tack an MG logo for each outlet,
>much
>>>>like BMW did for the Mini.
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