The New Jersey response to Tesla wanting to sell direct:
“This Musk guy, he wants all the profits for himself,” says Tom Dougherty, a 25-year veteran of the business who now works in sales at the BMW dealership in upscale Princeton, New Jersey. “They wanted to go direct, which means no sales force. That’s cutting out a lot of people. No way that’s gonna fly.”
via The Verge, Auto dealers fire back.
I disagree that “go direct” means “no sales force”, but it no doubt means a smaller sales force, definitely with fewer people in the middle. In general this whole quote does nothing to make people want to feel sympathetic towards car dealerships.