The Dealer 5 | January 9, 2015

Dealer news and information from WardsAuto and around the web.

Steve Finlay, Contributing Editor

January 9, 2015

3 Min Read
The Dealer 5 | January 9, 2015



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

So let's go:

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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The auto accessories industry is $40 billion and dealers represent less than 5%.    Could accessories be the new profit center for dealerships? It is one new frontier that may hold the most profit potential dealers have seen since adding the F&I department 40 years ago.

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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.   

 

To see all the day's dealer news and information, go to WardsAuto.com/Dealers.  

 

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About the Author

Steve Finlay

Contributing Editor

Steve Finlay is a former longtime editor for WardsAuto. He writes about a range of topics including automotive dealers and issues that impact their business.

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