Lew:
If a dealership wants to be a good profitable operation, it is essential that they sell trucks and SUV's. Chevy dealers always sell Chevy trucks. If they are going to have a second viable franchise group of dealers selling Buick, they MUST have GMC trucks for them!! Buick would not survive at all without GMC trucks to sell in most markets in the US. Why have Buick, you ask? Because BUICK is the nomber one seller in CHINA, a market aboutg the same size as the US market, and probably getting bigger over the next few years. If GM dropped Buick in the US, the Chinese would not want them. Buick-GMC dealers will be GM's second line of dealers along with Chevrolet-Cadillac. Buick would not last 30 days as a stand alone dealership in most markets.