Washington -- Lobbying efforts in Washington among U.S. auto dealers, looking for relief against forced closures, may be too little, too late, a dealership owner said.
With Chrysler's best assets already sold to Fiat of Italy, "I am not sure this is going to do any good," Rick Shaub, owner of a Maryland dealership, told the New York Times Friday.
About 2,000 General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC dealerships will close under bankruptcy plans that terminated their contracts.
GM filed for bankruptcy June 1. Chrysler filed at the end of May.
But dealerships found lawmakers sympathetic to their plight.
