Look ahead: Imports will dominate.(NEWS)

Automotive News, June, 2009

Byline: Keith Crain

I drove by one of the newer, more modern Pontiac dealerships in the Detroit area recently and was surprised that it was no longer a Pontiac store. It had become a Toyota dealership, with a prime location and a modern facility.

Score one run for Toyota, one error for Cadillac.

When the Asian imports arrived in the United States, they set up shop on the West Coast, then expanded up and down the West Coast, along the Gulf Coast and up the Eastern Seaboard.

That left the middle of the nation with far fewer Asian dealers than the coasts. But now General Motors and Chrysler have been nice enough to take care of that. In the next few years, we'll see the imports expand in the middle of the United States.

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