Monday, July 26, 2010

California Motorcycle Dealers Seek Protection from OEMs

The California Motorcycle Dealers Association is supporting AB 2597, which would “prohibit a manufacturer or distributor from offering or attempting to offer a customer or motorsports dealer an incentive to promote the sale or lease of motorsports vehicles that is conditioned on one or more of the following:
  • Purchase by the selling dealer of a minimum number of vehicles.
  • The selling dealer maintaining a minimum number of vehicles in inventory.
  • The date that the selling dealer acquired the vehicles eligible for the incentive.

The bill would also prohibit the OEMs and distributors from discriminating in favor of one dealer over another.

California Motorcycle Dealers Association