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 The head of the nation's largest car-dealers group is telling dealers to just say no 
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when auto makers pressure them to stockpile cars on their lots.
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 In an open letter
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 that will run today in the trade journal Automotive News,
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 Ron Tonkin, president of the National Car Dealers Association, says 
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dealers should cut their inventories to no more than half the level
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 traditionally considered desirable.
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 Mr. Tonkin,
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 who has been feuding with the Big Three 
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since he took office earlier this year,
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that
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 with half of the nation's dealers losing money 
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or breaking even,
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 it was time for emergency action.
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 U.S. car dealers had an average of 59 days' supply of cars in their lots at the end of September,
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 according to Ward's Automotive Reports.
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 But Mr. Tonkin said 
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dealers should slash stocks to between 15 and 30 days
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 to reduce the costs
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 of financing inventory.
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 His message is getting a chilly reception in Detroit,
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 where the Big Three auto makers are already being forced to close plants
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 because of soft sales and reduced dealer orders.
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 Even before Mr. Tonkin's broadside, some large dealers said 
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they were cutting inventories.
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 Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp. representatives criticized Mr. Tonkin's plan as unworkable.
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 It is going to sound neat to the dealer 
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except when his 15-day car supply doesn't include the bright red one 
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that the lady wants to buy 
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and she goes up the street 
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to buy one, 
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a Chrysler spokesman said.
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