Orillia’s General Motors dealership has escaped the axe that will chop close to half of the auto giant’s Canadian retailers.
Jim Wilson, of Jim Wilson Chevrolet Pontiac Buick GMC, learned late Wednesday afternoon the company was renewing his franchise agreement.
Wilson said he was contacted through an internal e-mail.
“People were ecstatic,” he said of the response among staff. “It is very serious. For a franchise to be cancelled, you would have a lot of nightmares happening.”
Wilson in an earlier interview appeared confident his Orillia-based dealership would survive a plan by GM to cut hundreds of dealerships.
“I wanted to think that, and I have to think that,” he added this week. “But no one expected the information would come this quickly. It was a complete shock that it came this week.”
GM Canada announced Wednesday that it aimed to reduce the number of dealerships across the country by 42 per cent as it struggles to overcome its financial troubles.
Dealerships affected by the cutbacks will be closed before the end of 2010.
“We never expected a mass slaughter like this,” Wilson added.
– With files from Torstar
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