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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. | Someone once described CUVs as station wagons on stilts. So why are those cross/utility vehicles so popular in the U.S.? Here’s one theory. | ||
| 2. | Technology helps. How else would a dealer remember a customer’s favorite color? But it’s no replacement for conversation. | ||
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| 3. | His life seems like a classic American Horatio Alger story. Dealer Raymond Ciccolo, who runs eight stores, says he got lucky. | ||
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Engineered Environmental sounds like a nice company to sell vehicles to. A lot of dealers did do business with what turned out to be a dummy company that conned them.
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| 5. | Are these really happy days for dealers? WardsAuto’s Steve Finlay joins Autoline TV show panelists to discuss that and more. |
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