How effective can this move be? So far the outcome is unclear, personally we don’t see too many of these dealers taking on the big dog and winning. As the dealerships are ordered to stop selling cars on June 9th, the pissed off dealerships are using the argument that laying them off with only three weeks notice is unethical.

Again, this will not be an easy sell – according to the Wall St. Journal: “Bankruptcy laws give the courts wide latitude for tearing up existing contracts like dealer licenses. A group of Chrysler creditors also formed a committee to fight a plan to slash its secured debt, but almost all have now relented and the committee has been disbanded.”