After decades of selling and servicing GM cars and trucks in Shawnee, Brackeen Motors may be on the verge of losing its ties with one of the world’s largest automakers.
Gary Brackeen, owner of Brackeen Motors, released the following statement Friday afternoon:
“General Motors informed us today that they do not expect to continue their relationship with us past October 2010,” Brackeen said in the statement. “While this is an unfortunate development, this is also a long ways off. We plan to be here doing our best each and every day between now and that time. It was also made clear that these plans are not final, and things could change over the next 18 months. We will continue selling new and used vehicles, selling parts, doing warranty repairs and other service work. We appreciate everybody’s continued business.”
Other GM dealers in the area seem to have escaped the first round of dealership closures.
Daryl Bowen, a spokesman for Randy Bowen Chevrolet Pontiac GMC in Chandler, said Friday that his dealership didn’t receive the dreaded FedEx letter from GM.
The general sales manager at United Motors Inc., in Seminole, said his dealership didn’t receive notice, either.
“We didn’t get one and we weren’t expecting one,” he said.
Harvey’s, the other GM dealer in Shawnee, couldn’t be reached for comment. An employee at the dealership told the News-Star on Friday the owners and management were not taking any calls regarding the closures and that they would be in meetings all day.
Unlike Chrysler, which notified nearly 800 dealers Thursday regarding the troubled automaker’s plans to cut ties with them, GM didn’t publish a list of car lots to be axed as the company tries to stay afloat in what is being described by experts as the worst auto market ever.
All told, GM sent out more than 1,000 letters to dealers across the country on Friday and the company recently announced plans to cut around 40 percent - or roughly 2,600 - of its dealerships.
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Andrew Knittle may be reached at 214-3926.
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After decades of selling and servicing GM cars and trucks in Shawnee, Brackeen Motors may be on the verge of losing its ties with one of the world’s largest automakers.
Gary Brackeen, owner of Brackeen Motors, released the following statement Friday afternoon:
“General Motors informed us today that they do not expect to continue their relationship with us past October 2010,” Brackeen said in the statement. “While this is an unfortunate development, this is also a long ways off. We plan to be here doing our best each and every day between now and that time. It was also made clear that these plans are not final, and things could change over the next 18 months. We will continue selling new and used vehicles, selling parts, doing warranty repairs and other service work. We appreciate everybody’s continued business.”
Other GM dealers in the area seem to have escaped the first round of dealership closures.
Daryl Bowen, a spokesman for Randy Bowen Chevrolet Pontiac GMC in Chandler, said Friday that his dealership didn’t receive the dreaded FedEx letter from GM.
The general sales manager at United Motors Inc., in Seminole, said his dealership didn’t receive notice, either.
“We didn’t get one and we weren’t expecting one,” he said.
Harvey’s, the other GM dealer in Shawnee, couldn’t be reached for comment. An employee at the dealership told the News-Star on Friday the owners and management were not taking any calls regarding the closures and that they would be in meetings all day.
Unlike Chrysler, which notified nearly 800 dealers Thursday regarding the troubled automaker’s plans to cut ties with them, GM didn’t publish a list of car lots to be axed as the company tries to stay afloat in what is being described by experts as the worst auto market ever.
All told, GM sent out more than 1,000 letters to dealers across the country on Friday and the company recently announced plans to cut around 40 percent - or roughly 2,600 - of its dealerships.
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Andrew Knittle may be reached at 214-3926.
