What a Bustling Dealership!

"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
07/20/2020 at 15:49 • Filed to: None

This Alfa dealer near my place has clearly been struggling. They were always a used car dealer (trucks and jeeps) that happened to sell Alfas. All the cars are gone now...like all of them.

Now there is only one car left in their whole lot....and with the rear tow hook like that and plates on it, I don’t think it arrived there by choice.

Back in the good days:

And, prior to being an Alfa dealer, they sold Fiats (used RAMs)...so clearly the owner has a very keen business sense!

DISCUSSION (26)

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
07/20/2020 at 15:51

That makes me all kinds of sad :(

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
07/20/2020 at 15:54

Me too. Not a look of a healthy brand....

MonkeePuzzle > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
07/20/2020 at 15:55

seems like it was good news

Kinja'd!!!

ranwhenparked > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
07/20/2020 at 15:56

I really wonder if maybe Stellantis should consider spinning off or selling Alfa Romeo and Maserati, they really don’t add anything to the bottom line, and don’t sell the kind of vehicles that the company is increasingly reliant on for their future growth, nor have much parts and engineering commonality with ones that do.

The company has too many brands to adequately support all of them, like RJ Reynolds, unlike RJ Reynolds, Stellantis can’t just hide the ones they don’t care about behind a Newport sign.

Both seem peripheral at best to their corporate strategy, but both are iconic and clearly have some value, hell, they're both probably worth more detached from the rest of Stellantis. An executive leadership team and sales force dedicated exclusively to growing those brands and only those brands would get better results.

Sovande > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
07/20/2020 at 15:57

The Alfa dealer near me also sells Maserati and Fiats. There is never anyone near the place. They just spent a bunch of cash redoing the whole place too. Used to be a fish monger.

Ash78, voting early and often > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
07/20/2020 at 16:03

It’s an Italian family business and that’s all you need to know about that, so just keep walking, college boy.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
07/20/2020 at 16:05

If they start parting stuff out, I will go pry off one of those logos for you

PartyPooper2012 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
07/20/2020 at 16:06

For the record, I would have visited that dealership like monthly with clutch replacements jobs.... but no. They decided Manuals are for people who are not us.

Enjoy the bustle

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
07/20/2020 at 16:06

* checks his local alfa dealership*

oh..... we dont have one....the suzuki dealer has some used alfas tho

coulda sworn we had an alfa dealer here.....thats probably not a good sign

onlytwowheels > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
07/20/2020 at 16:06

During the last big economic downturn, the same happened at many dealerships in the town I lived. VW, Buick/GMC, Mazda, Hyundai, Ford, Kawsaki, Honda/Yamaha all gone within a few months. Surr ounding towns suffered similar losses. As a mecha nic, you were hard pressed to find any decent paying job. Even the quicky lube places were s low. People don’t spend money on vehicles when they are worried about paying for food and keeping a roof over their heads.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > onlytwowheels
07/20/2020 at 16:12

The silver lining to that: at least people were being slightly responsible with their money?

ClassicDatsunDebate > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
07/20/2020 at 16:12

It’s an offshoot of Maple Ridge Chrysler so I bet they’re all on that lot. So, here’s a perfect example of the problem with buying a Cadillac or Alfa ...the dealership.

No, Mr. Ram salesman, I don’t want a 54" TV, trip to Vegas and $50k line of credit with my Stelvio, thanks.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > ClassicDatsunDebate
07/20/2020 at 16:17

Oh! I didn’t know they were linked, but that makes sense. S ometimes you get different dealers selling the same stuff even in close proximity (see Willowbrook Chrysler & Langley Chrysler )

I went Jeep shopping at Maple Ridge recently. Very gross feeling atmosphere

ClassicDatsunDebate > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
07/20/2020 at 16:27

Oh man...it’s very cringworthy there. So much so that we went to Pioneer to do the lease buyout on the Wrangler because we knew if we went to the local guys we’d have to waste half a day while they tried to upsell us into a new model instead of the lease buyout .

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
07/20/2020 at 16:34

Not a fan of Ram Man Dan?

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=896118554100771

They’re closer than you’d like.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
07/20/2020 at 16:37

They are closer than I’d like. Maybe go from 10km to 10000km

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
07/20/2020 at 16:47

That place couldn’t scream COCAINE more loudly if their entire inventory were white Testarossa’s. I’d put money on there being a measurable amount in the building at any given time and if a trafficking bust were to hit the news with that place at the center my only response would be “I told ya so”

Spasoje > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
07/20/2020 at 16:53

The one by Science World looks exactly the same! I tried to book a test drive for a Giulia Quadrifoglio, but Alfa’s own site says there are exactly zero in inventory anywhere...

Exage03040 @ opposite-lock.com > This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
07/20/2020 at 16:55

I distinctly remember waking up to go to high school and if it wasn’t music or Jeff O’Neil then it’d be Ian yelling at me from the radio “Come’on down to Maple Ridge Chrysler; We’re closer than you think”

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
07/20/2020 at 19:05

One of those giant FIAT logos would be an amazing garage piece...especially if it was backlit!

Zenith2455 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
07/21/2020 at 17:18

I didn’t even realize that that lot changed from FCA to an Alfa dealership, and I live only a few minutes from it.

Zenith2455 > This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
07/21/2020 at 17:20

T heir ads are annoying; but It must work for them, as they’re still making and airing them.

Zenith2455 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
07/21/2020 at 17:22

Im sure the location (City it is in and actual location) did not help. I haven’t seen any Alfas on the road around here in a long while.

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Zenith2455
07/21/2020 at 17:27

Mr. Man Dan, I presume.

Kinja'd!!!

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Zenith2455
07/21/2020 at 18:01

You must be close to me, I'm essentially across the street loo

Zenith2455 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
07/22/2020 at 00:22

I live near the 24/7 snap fitness on Dewdney