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[quote who="Anthony R" comment="19"]If the objective is to sell more cars, why on earth would we want to shut down dealers? It just doesn't seem to make any sense. [/quote] Ahhh, but it does. Instead of thinking about this as "closing" dealerships, think about it as "consolidating" dealerships. Fewer dealerships will (probably) mean that the remaining dealers get larger. Larger dealers are better able to advertise, take advantage of economies of scale, provide a

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This would be a huge scandal... if it were true. Fortunately, it is not true, as is very well explained in this post at fivethirtyeight.com. The post goes into a great deal of detail, but the gist of it is this: Yes, a very large percentage of dealerships being closed are owned by republican donors. However, a similarly large percen