I don't know where you're getting this impression from, but sales figures do no support your opinion. Sales were down about 15% in 2020, [0] and that was with a normal first quarter and sales inching back up in the 4th quarter. For large parts of 2020 sales were down as much as 40%.
Your experience with Lexus dealerships is not generalizable to the whole industry. The economic fallout of 2020 was not evenly distributed, and the only thing your personal experience tells me is that the audience for luxury cars may have had the better end of things last year.
Doesn't matter if net car sales were down - dealerships of all kinds were hitting ALL TIME HIGHS for profits in 2020 everywhere as a result of huge markups brought on by massive demand. So I stand corrected, dealer profits are up, not car sales - point is that car sales people are not in need of our sympathy at this moment.
Your experience with Lexus dealerships is not generalizable to the whole industry. The economic fallout of 2020 was not evenly distributed, and the only thing your personal experience tells me is that the audience for luxury cars may have had the better end of things last year.
[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/wheels/news/2020...