It is REALLY REALLY difficult to get a Honda dealership. You don't just call them up and say "I'd like to be a Honda dealer"
In order to get "Honda" you have to play by Honda's rules. If GP sells tons of bikes over the next few years, maybe then, they can tell Honda, we don't want to carry your weed whackers anymore. But right now, you need to play buy Honda's rules. They have a big nut to crack there, can you imagine the bills every month.
Those bills don't change in the winter when business is a lot slower. The public doesn't understand that. I have been in retail for more than 30 years.
I had a store in a mall where my rent was $21,000 a month. But the public doesn't see that, most people would guess that my rent was $6000 a month.
GP is the biggest selling Ducati dealer in Canada, but I don't think that is their goal. I think they want to be the biggest motorcycle dealership in Canada, which I think is great.
I hope they become that. I'm in Oshawa, I love the fact that now I will be able to go to one place and check out the new line of Ducati's, Honda, KTM, Triumph.
Why do we go to the Motorcycle Shows? To see lots of stuff in one day. I hope that one day GP gets Kawasaki and Yamaha too.
10 minutes from my house, that would be great! Keep going GP Bikes!!!
In order to get "Honda" you have to play by Honda's rules. If GP sells tons of bikes over the next few years, maybe then, they can tell Honda, we don't want to carry your weed whackers anymore. But right now, you need to play buy Honda's rules. They have a big nut to crack there, can you imagine the bills every month.
Those bills don't change in the winter when business is a lot slower. The public doesn't understand that. I have been in retail for more than 30 years.
I had a store in a mall where my rent was $21,000 a month. But the public doesn't see that, most people would guess that my rent was $6000 a month.
GP is the biggest selling Ducati dealer in Canada, but I don't think that is their goal. I think they want to be the biggest motorcycle dealership in Canada, which I think is great.
I hope they become that. I'm in Oshawa, I love the fact that now I will be able to go to one place and check out the new line of Ducati's, Honda, KTM, Triumph.
Why do we go to the Motorcycle Shows? To see lots of stuff in one day. I hope that one day GP gets Kawasaki and Yamaha too.
10 minutes from my house, that would be great! Keep going GP Bikes!!!
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