Re: Miami dealer selling M3 over MSRP (archive)

Yanking the dealership could be difficult. However it would be much harder on the dealership if Porsche limits allocation than on Porsche. They would simply be sold elswhere. I don't think any Dealer would be willing to bet their livlihood on Porsche's ability to send their cars elswhere or even extend an offering for someone else to open a dealership that would comply with their philosophy.
But, like you said, there are those dealers who sell the cars to a salesman, only to have it put on the used lot, marked with a premium. But of course the easy way to avoid that scenario is to simply order the car.

Not completely true. Due to state laws it is very very difficult for a manufacturer to yank a dealership. They could however, give them some strange cars to get the dealerships to go along with the manufacturer philosophy, but that could get expensive for the manufacturer.

I know I heard of some SF Bay area dealers charging over sticker for the Boxster a few years ago. A way to get around that is to sell the car and then put it on the used lot. What little legal recourse the manufacturer would have is gone in that situation.

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