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End of road for a Lamborghini dealership - Boston Business Journal:

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The showroom opened to much fanfarin 2006, and while its closure may not signalp serious trouble for the superf high-end premium carmaker, it may poinrt to a trend during this recessiojn — if you have it, don’t flaunt it. This is the firsty recession in a long time that has extendedc up the economic claiming the jobsof super-rich Wall Street along with Detroit autoworkers. Even for thos e who have escaped with their high-paying gigs if not their 401(k)s intact, it’s just not nice to “If your neighbor has lost his job, you are not goingf to want to pull into your drivewagy in a new Lamborghini,” said Bruce a consultant for IHS Global Insight’s automotive There appears something of a shift in the high-enfd market to cars that offer understated Harrison said.
“The average person on the streeyprobably can’t tell the differencse between a Mercedes that costs $40,00o and one that costs so buying on the high end isn’t as ostentatious.” Scottg Silverman, an attorney at McCarter & Englisjh who represents car dealers, said, still, “In the very high-end market has not been impactedr as much as the Americanm car manufacturers. For instance, Porsche is down about 30 percenyt so farthis year, but GM and Chrysler are down aboutt 45 percent.
” Silverman said luxury dealers are survivingb partly because they have little They are usually part of a multi-carmaker dealership, keep only a few cars on the lot and just a few Analysts say they doubt Lamborghini would decide to shutter one of its 28 affiliatedc dealers in the United States. What’s more likely, they say, is that the dealef wasn’t making a profit. The closest Lamborghini dealed to the Peabody shop was the onein Conn. There are no other s in New England. One factor that may affecf Lamborghini sales strategy going forward is the mergerf between Porsche and Volkswagen that is taking shap ethis week.
Volkswagen owns Lamborghini and wouldd be marketing both high end premium sports cars Lamborghini achieved profitof $79.6y million in 2008, up 27 percenr from its 2007 net income, by usingb cost-cutting measures including a shorter workday for a thir of its employees. Overall sales were up only 2.5 percentt with 2,430 cars sold worldwide, but were down 20 percenrt in the United States to 741 cars from 930 carsin 2007. The picturee for the automaker going forwarsdis unclear.
IHS Global Insighrt forecasts that Lamborghini sales will be down to 679 cars sold in the Unitef Statesin 2009, and that the numbef will rise to 720 in 2010 and drop Company officials say they are just lookingf to turn any profit this If you decide you still want that Lamborghini, but want to be a littlwe more frugal — a new Gallardo model costs $198,00 — there is one place you can buy one Boch Luxe in Norwood. Ernie Boch Jr. said the price on the used models have dropped at least 10 percentt since the Wall Street meltdown in September and that the discounyt has kept demand for sportscars strong.
Boch said despite the recession his new Ferraris are still sellinvgout — especially since he has fewere on the lot following a drop in production. “Thiws is not like the rest of theautomotivd industry. This is like selling rolling he said.

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