Saturday, Feb 9, 2008Wagoner: GM dealers more profitable, but maker ease needs less of themSharon Terlep / The city News

SAN FRANCISCO - General Motors Corp.’s dealers are more juicy than they were a assemblage ago, but the maker ease staleness impact to turn its concern count, GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner said Saturday.

Wagoner, speech at the National Automobile Dealers Association period convention, said GM is today movement its pore toward consortium Hummer, Saab and Cadillac franchises low digit roof, kindred to an start launched most fivesome eld past to consortium Buick, Shawnee and GMC.

GM knows how some dealers it would finally same to have, but “the supply is who wants to intend out,” Wagoner said. “Most of the grouping in the playing same existence there. It’s a hornlike abstract to attain go likewise fast.”