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MAY 1, 2017

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Hey there. Welcome to the WardsAuto Dealer 5 for Monday, May 1. To start your day, we've put together items from WardsAuto.com and across the Internet. So let's go:

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Customers want texting, so what’s the problem? John Possumato fields that question in an WardsAuto Industry Voices commentary.

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This is one vending machine where shaking it won’t loosen the merchandise if it gets stuck. Why? It holds 30 cars.

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A shortage of mechanics has dealers taking action.

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It’s WardsAuto Flashback time. Let’s go back to years such as 1958 when Ford planned to sell a German-built Taunus small car through Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln dealers. Edsel dealers selling the Taunus? A double-flop.  

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Now for the latest dealer news from CBT Automotive.

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That’s our WardsAuto Dealer 5 for today. We’ll be back soon with more high fives.

And to reach the editor for whatever reason (i.e. comments, complaints, questions, directions to Five Forks, AL; where are the spoons and knives), contact Steve Finlay at sfinlay@wardsauto.com .

OK, finally... Forward this alert to dealership colleagues. The more in-the-know people at your place, the better it is. Over and out.


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