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Charlie Brown

Increased Buick-GMC new-vehicle retail sales sixfold in three years, profits more than tenfold in one year

Mark Foster

More than doubled retail sales, profits in five years

Teaching the auto retail titans

The auto retail legends of today discuss the individuals who mentored them, and how that has prompted them to do likewise for the next generation.

Free services boost customer-pay work

Mercedes-Benz of Draper's VIP Card gives customers free services such as flat-tire repair or even renewal of state vehicle registrations to bring them back more often.

Public groups adjust plans for selling used

Sonic Automotive and Group 1 Automotive are expanding their used-vehicle plans, even as AutoNation pauses its used-only store plans to evaluate results so far.

In the stratosphere of the superrich, buying a car is about the experience

Selling high-line luxury cars to the superrich is not your father's car business: Price is less important, while the experience is everything.

Dealer offers extravagant automotive tour through Europe for top customers

Manhattan Motorcars' top customers will get the automotive tour of a lifetime in Europe. For Brian Miller, it's all part of doing business as an uber-luxury dealer.

Lithia Q1 net rises 2.6 percent

Lithia Motors' first-quarter net grew on strong service and parts and finance results, despite a drop in new-vehicle sales and narrowing gross profit margins.

Dealers fixate on costs

Dealers are increasingly cutting costs across the board this year to offset narrowing margins, rising expenses and a potential economic downturn.

FlexWheels: Ready-made dealer platform

Warren Henry Auto Group started a subscription program that's inspiring the group to develop an operational platform to help other dealers run subscription models.

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