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Car Summit 2020: Fatal signal from Berlin
“This is the worst decision for car dealers that could now be made in the Berlin Chancellery,” criticizes Ansgar Klein from the Federal Association of Independent Motor Vehicle Dealers (BVfK).
Car Summit 2020: Fatal signal from Berlin
| “We cannot advise anyone who does not have an urgent need to purchase a car now if a purchase bonus is expected in June,” states the association chairman, fearing that many car dealers would not survive an even longer dry spell. The BVfK is therefore calling for a quick decision and expresses considerable doubts about solving the industry problems with government purchase bonuses: “It makes no sense to promote the sale of cars that are not available in the short term,” says Klein with regard to the delivery problems, not only for electric cars, as a result of interrupted production and supply chains as a result of the Corona crisis. The association also calls for the car manufacturers not to be supported, who are obviously not only the cause of the diesel crisis, but when looking at their balance sheets, some manufacturers now even seem to be among the winners of the consequences of emissions manipulation. |
| “This cannot continue to be carried out on the backs of the car trade, because soon hardly any car business will be able to keep up with this,” warns the association and calls for a Marshall Plan to save the companies: “The support, which fortunately flowed quickly, was just a drop in the ocean, now only a sustainable restructuring of the companies can prevent a large-scale destruction of livelihoods and jobs,” states Ansgar Klein. According to the BVfK, the future of the German auto industry cannot be agreed upon between politicians and car manufacturers alone. The postponed decision in Berlin is a dramatic example of the fact that the concerns and concerns of a large part of the industry are currently not being heard, according to the BVfK. |