Lawsuit Claims Fiat Chrysler Rewarded Dealers That Inflated Sales

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has been called to court on accusations of racketeering, made by two Fiat Chrysler dealerships.

The plaintiffs are part of an auto group from Chicago, called Napleton Automotive Group, and have accused the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Corporation of conspiring with select dealers to falsely inflate the monthly US sales reports of the automaker.

According to Automotive News, FCA has posted 69 consecutive monthly year-over-year sales gains after recovering from its bankruptcy with the help of the US Government. This would be the largest current sales streak of any automaker, so we’re talking about a serious situation.
 

TheSteve - 1/14/2016 2:57:28 PM

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The article I saw that broke this story also alleges that "...French automaker Renault's stock was halted after the carmaker was raided and its computers seized in a probe into whether it had cheated on emission controls..."

Full story:
http://news.investors.com/011416-789864-fiat-chrysler-sued-for-alleged-falsified-sales-renault-raided.htm?ven=yahoocp&src=aurlled&ven=yahoo

MDarringer - 1/14/2016 8:12:35 PM

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It's well documented that Maserati sales were "cooked"

Vette71 - 1/15/2016 3:14:52 PM

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It takes a lot of progressive cooking ponzi style to get 69 months of continuous growth. It gets deeper and deeper every month with bigger and bigger numbers of phony sales. Hard tp hide this long. This dealer has had legal issues with FCA in the past.

MDarringer - 1/16/2016 6:28:44 PM

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What's interesting is how antagonistic some brands are toward the dealers they depend on for magical sales increases and how others really work to make the dealer successful.

MDarringer - 1/16/2016 9:56:12 AM

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FCA isn't the only one that pressures dealers to report cars sold and then back them out of the computer after the fact.