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This is the fourth of five reports with news and insight from
the NADA convention floor in Las Vegas.
Features
CEO
Unlikely Dealer Advocate
LAS VEGAS -- Steve Wilhite is a dealer advocate and, at a
conference that's part of the National Automobile Dealers Assn.
convention here, he defends dealers by calling for higher profit margins
and slamming auto makers for treating dealers badly at times.
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News
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LAS VEGAS -- Alabama dealer Tracy Shields Jones is named TIME
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Dealer Issues
Chrysler
Dealers Vent, But Meeting Tone 'Upbeat'
LAS VEGAS -- Chrysler Group confesses its sins -- again -- but all
still is not forgiven, as evidenced by an "upbeat" meeting where top
executives faced some tough questions.
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'You
Want to Do What?'
LAS VEGAS -- U.S. Mercedes-Benz dealers and managers are behind
some of the most creative programs launched lately by Mercedes-Benz
Financial, a top executive of the firm says.
GM
Certified Used Cars Get Powertrain Warranty
LAS VEGAS -- General Motors Corp. says the expansion of its
5-year/100,000-mile (160,934 km) powertrain warranty program to GM
certified used cars is aimed at keeping customers for life.
Online
System Helps Vehicle Remarketers
New Internet feature designed to help dealers and others with
used-car values and forecasts.
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From the Dealers
Dealers
Speak: Straight Talk From Retailers
Ward's talks with NADA dealers across the country to find out
what's on their minds. This is the third in a series.
Industry
Struggles Nothing New, Bradshaw Reminds
Auto makers and dealers have faced tough times in the past and
managed to over come them.
From the Auto Makers
Chrysler
Improves Ordering Process After 2006 Crisis
LAS VEGAS -- Chrysler Group vows never to repeat the mistakes of
2006 when inventories swelled and dealers were inundated with poorly
equipped vehicles that could be sold only with significant incentives.
Honda
Still Downstream of Small MPV Market
LAS VEGAS -- American Honda Motor Co. Inc. is in no rush to join
the battle shaping up in the multipurpose vehicle/people mover market in
the U.S., Richard Colliver, executive vice-president-automobile sales,
suggests.
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Off the Beaten Track
Reporters Notebook: Talking Under the Influence
Ward's writers pass along the buzz at the 2007 North American
Dealers Assn. conference in Las Vegas this week.
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