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A fascinating series of articles from a reporter who was sent “undercover” to work at two different dealerships<\/a>. It’s a fascinatnig tale of scum and survivors, bad dealers and bad customers. It should also be required reading for anyone <\/i>going out to buy a car … especially the glossary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fascinating series of articles from a reporter who was sent “undercover” to work at two different dealerships. It’s a fascinatnig tale of scum and survivors, bad dealers and bad…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31359,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/14\/the-car-dealership-franchise-monopoly.html","url_meta":{"origin":5671,"position":0},"title":"The Car Dealership Franchise Monopoly","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 14-Nov-12 8:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"I had no idea that so many states have laws restricting car selling to dealership franchises, or restricting direct sales from auto manufacturers to customers. \u00a0Here's hoping that Tesla blows up that particular bit of arcane market meddling.Reshared post from +George WimanKnow what's funnier than old-line auto dealerships suing Tesla\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10441,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/13\/john_elway_go.html","url_meta":{"origin":5671,"position":1},"title":"John Elway? 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