Many auto dealers are enjoying their most profitable year since the financial crisis, according to a Detroit-based consulting firm's annual state of the industry report.
The Free Press reports sales per dealership are expected to reach 805 this year, according to Urban Science, the retail consultant that has tracked auto retailing since 1990. That would be a 12% increase from 2011.
"I'm probably going to double that average number here," Jody Lee, new-car sales manager at Taylor Chevrolet, told reporter Nathan Bomey. "We've grown the last four years."
Dealers that survived General Motors' and Chrysler's bankruptcies and Ford's close-out of its Mercury brand are thriving.
Across the country, some 3,000 dealerships closed since the recession began.
