Nowadays-in 21 century, while the competition in automobile industry became sharper and sharper, many kinds of automobile sales forms have appeared in automobile sales market such as “automobile supermarket”, “Automobile Street”, “franchiser”, “franchised store”. Besides these sales form, the most noticeable sales form is “4S-franchised store”. It is the product of modern automobile industry caused by varied automobile sales market. Once it has become “the one” in the modern automobile industry all over the world. But with the revolutions of automobile market and many changes occurred in the automobile industry, 4S franchised store has change from the mainstream sale form to being eliminated in the competition. The automobile sales market has turned from seller’s market to buyer’s market. The customers have more and more demands and choices and the competition between dealers became sharper and sharper. The age that you will never loss money if you open a 4S franchised store has disappeared. Nowadays, many 4S-franchised stores have to face deficit and some stores have to start sell their property. The new automobile age has started, how the 4S-franchised stores deal with this situation? How can they earn the market share from today’s automobile market and how can they get more customers?
I write this paper in order to analyze the crisis faced by 4S-franchised store and find the factors, which have cause this crisis so that we can try to find some way to solve this situation through changing the market concept and the market strategy.
Key words: the situation of automobile sales form, the reason why 4S-franchised store has many problems, change of market concept, change of market strategy.