Maserati dealer sues factory, alleging padded sales - Automotive News
A Maserati dealer has sued Maserati North America, saying the auto company insisted the dealership misrepresent sales, reporting 2014 vehicle sales as much as quadruple what they actually were, and discriminated against dealers who refused to... The fraudulent sales reports preceded the start of public stock trading by Maserati’s parent company, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, court documents said. Recovery Racing, which owns Maserati dealerships in New York, New Jersey and Florida, said in a complaint filed in the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York that Maserati ordered dealers to mark their test drive vehicles as... A spokeswoman for Maserati North America said the automaker does not comment on pending litigation. During September 2014, ahead of the start of Fiat-Chrysler’s stock trading on Wall Street in October 2014, Peter Grady, then CEO of Maserati North America, started a corporate program to “falsely inflate” the number of vehicles reported as sold,... at age 54 as head of Chrysler Group’s dealer network in March, having retired as head of Maserati North America in January. Source: www.autonews.com
