San Francisco Has No US Car Dealerships

Tuesday, 10 May 2011 | by Pat's Picks

Things you can no longer buy in San Francisco: a new American car. The city’s last domestic car dealership—the San Francisco Ford Lincoln Mercury—closed its door last week says the Chronicle without a word of warning. Those in the market for a new US-made car will have to travel outside the city’s 47.6 square miles. Says a Chevy dealer that sold his own lot years ago: “People in San Francisco just weren’t buying Cadillac Escalades. You can’t even park them in the parking structures here.”