Dealers will not miss Smart ForFour.(News)(DaimlerChrysler AG to close the production of its automobile model)(Brief article)

Automotive News Europe,  April, 2006  by Meiners, Jens

• E-mail
• Print
• Link

Byline: Jens Meiners

DaimlerChrysler's decision to stop making the Smart ForFour is surprisingly popular with some dealers in Germany.

"After two years, most customers were still not aware of the fact that there is a bigger Smart," said the marketing head of a Bavarian Smart dealership.

The manager of a Bavarian dealer said: "The decision poses no problem for us. We have had other models stopped in the past, such as the Roadster. Now the Roadster's values are rising again."

Reaction differed in Spain. Valdomero Lazaro, general secretary of the ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.