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| 1. | O.K., break's over, back to work. Our fixed-operations expert tells how dealership service departments can do more. | ||
| 2. | “We don’t want to grow, and grow the wrong way, by giving our vehicles away,” says an auto executive. Not recommended. But customers sure would love it. | ||
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| 3. | It's chilling enough that defective airbags shoot metal fragments into people's bodies. What makes it mind-boggling is that the best and brightest can't figure out why. | ||
| 4. | Some dealerships expect a sales boon, some don't from a new law that allows immigrants without legal status to get special driver's licenses. | ||
| 5. | If only we could call this a romantic evening at the dealership. But we can't. Nor did the police. |
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