Most cars are in dealer inventory for about two months before they are sold.
Edmunds.com tracks average days to turn, which is the average number of days vehicles were in dealer inventory before a customer drives them away.
That would not only make customers happier but also cut dealer inventory costs and the need for Toyota to spend on rebates for slow-selling vehicles.
Folks who have been to the Bold Moves site spend 12% more time looking at cars, configuring them and searching dealer inventory than other visitors to the sales site.
Nardelli plans to cut production by 82, 900 vehicles in the fourth quarter, or 14%, and says Chrysler will end the year with 100, 000 fewer cars in dealer inventory than the year before.
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The lumber dealer would sell off the inventory, taking in banknotes and using them to liquidate the loan.
At best, the nearest dealer looks at other dealers' inventory to find the closest car.
So in September, when U.S. car sales slowed and Chrysler's inventory began piling up on dealer lots, rather than keeping the factories humming and then boosting discounts to move the excess vehicles--a strategy that drove Chrysler into deep financial trouble in 2006 and at other times in its history--Nardelli decided to shut down six factories until the glut disappeared.
So far Dell has scored with a direct sales formula that both cuts out dealer markups and enables Dell to turn its inventory four times faster than Compaq.
Meanwhile, Chrysler is also putting more dealer-friendly policies in place in an effort to repair relations after last year's disastrous inventory buildup.
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