It may well be because of the low number of vehicles available. I drove past the Belvidere Jeep assembly plant on Sat, the new Jeep inventory lots are pretty empty, I'd be surprised if there was 1,000 new Jeeps sitting on the assembly plant lots ready to ship, total.

Not much sense dropping a pile of money advertising vehicles you do not have available to sell. Almost all of the new car dealerships of all the makes have pretty vacant inventory lots around here. A lot of the used car lots have a lot of available space as well.

For an industry that has in the not so distant past had huge numbers of overstock, a lack of available inventory must really be a shock! Gene