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The Dealer 5 | October 12, 2015

The Dealer 5 | October 12, 2015

Dealer news and information from WardsAuto and around the web.

Welcome to The WardsAuto Dealer 5 - we've put together important items from WardsAuto.com and across the Internet. So let's go:

  1.

They’re called dealership “prime-a-donnas” because they only want to deal with top-credit scorers. But they miss out on selling lots of cars to others, say subprime pros.

 
  2.

NADA Chairman Bill Fox offers three anecdotes showing the wide-ranging effect of the mess VW stepped into.

 
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  3.

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Buyers go bland when picking car colors. That’s why white is No.1. Yet orange soon may find its place in the sun.

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  5.

When King Kindred started working at a dealership, the best-selling car (Chevy Bel Air) cost two grand and Elvis had his first hit. The King (Kindred, that is) still works at the same spot 60 years later. He just got a nice token of appreciation.

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