Comment by akjj

The US auto industry _was_ restructured by the government and dealerships _were_ closed. The first link I found with numbers for both said that Chrysler closed 789 out of 3200 of its dealers and GM closed 2600 out of 6246 [1].

[1] http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/05/how-is-chrysler-close...