Dealers

Labor Day typically is a time for picnics, parades and rebate-sweetened sales at auto dealerships. But there wasn't much of the latter this year, says Alec Gutierrez, manager-vehicle valuation for Kelley Blue Book. The holiday's sale-a-thons didn't feature much in the way of generous manufacturer incentives to lure customers, he says. The deals won't come until later in the year. That's because 2011

bySteve Finlay, Contributing Editor