02-14-2009, 03:07 PM
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Drives: 1998 Camaro SS
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Lancaster, CA
Posts: 1,115
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Originally Posted by DGthe3
Where did you hear that one?
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Originally Posted by Conflict
WTF are you talking about?
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It was right in the article.
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Originally Posted by scotchsride09
Fitzgerald suspects that if the manufacturers could sell new cars directly over the Internet, consumers would actually pay more for them than they do now. Right now, he says, dealerships actually pay about $2,500 more for a car from the manufacturer than they sell it for. Dealerships make their money elsewhere—on repairs and servicing, financing, and other products. Fitzgerald says that the manufacturers haven't sold cars directly to the public in 75 years, since the days when you could buy a car at Sears. Those sales didn't work out, he insists, because someone still has to service the car, and that's usually the dealership.
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