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Welcome to The WardsAuto Dealer 5 - we've put together important items from WardsAuto.com and across the Internet. So let's go:
| 1. | Dealerships consider customer test drives as vital, even though certain people wave them off. (And one crook thinks a dealer demo is a great getaway car.) | ||
| 2. | Some dealerships sell prepaid maintenance plans, others give them away. They’ll sell – if they make the F&I menu cut, say their advocates. | ||
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| 3. | The case is closed on dealer closing fees – at least in South Carolina where the state Supreme Court ruled them as illegal. Cost to a dealership that lost the case: $2.8 million. | ||
| 4. | Will dealerships someday sell flying cars? Bold technologies aim to put cars in the sky. | ||
| 5. | Here are five scary numbers that tell the gruesome story of a big automaker in a bad way. |
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