Dealer claims Maserati demanded falsified sales numbers - LeftLane News
Maserati reported impressive sales growth in 2014, with deliveries increasing by 171 percent compared to 2013. Interestingly, the momentum has completely died in 2015 with sales down by 3. 9 percent through the first eight months of the year. The scheme allegedly involved 'punching' a vehicle, a term used to describe the paperwork that reclassifies a specific vehicle as sold to a customer or taken out of the dealer-trade inventory for use as a test-drive unit. "Dealers were informed that they would receive full higher or additional incentives on each Ghibli when punched as a demonstrator vehicle and then when the vehicle was later sold to a retail customer," the lawsuit alleges. "The Maserati dealers that complied with the fraudulent scheme obtained and operated at a substantial economic advantage over the Maserati dealers that did not. Source: www.leftlanenews.com
