![]() ![]() In little more than an hour with Art, a commonsensical 58-year-old, everything was much clearer to me: Why GM and Chrysler failed and Honda didn’t why “cash for clunkers” isn’t a cure-all for the auto industry and why the $100 billion the U.S. He also happens to be Chairman of Honda’s National Dealers Advisory Board. ![]() It was there that I bumped into Art Wright, co-owner of Lehigh Valley Acura Honda Suzuki Hyundai. So I gave up on Detroit and headed up the street to Lehigh Valley Honda. No greeter, no salespeople, only a couple of sad customers and an even sadder popcorn machine. ![]() Surely, things would be different at Kelly Ford, its sister dealer across the street. “Cash for clunkers” mania may grip the nation, but apparently not at Kelly Buick GMC. I stood in the empty showroom for a few minutes but no one came out to greet me. How is this for a snapshot of the American auto industry?Īt just after 9 a.m., I arrived at Kelly Buick GMC, an auto dealer at the southern tip of the Lehigh Auto Mile. In this first column of a series on the economy, he visits the Lehigh Street Auto Mile, whose auto dealers serve the 800,000 people of the greater Lehigh Valley. Mean Street columnist Evan Newmark recently left the insulated confines of Manhattan for a two-day road trip to Eastern Pennsylvania. Andy and his dad are truly among the very best.įinding Hope in a Cash-for-Clunker Country To this extent, the recent experience of a Journal reporter at his store comes as no surprise to me. Over the past couple of years, I’ve gotten to know Andy, Art’s son and found him to be one of the brightest and most progressive thinkers in the industry. Below you’ll find a Wall Street Journal article about Lehigh Valley Honda. Congratulations to Art and Andy Wright of Lehigh Valley Honda. ![]()
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