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A building designed to make a 3% interest rate feel like a personal favor.
means A business licensed by a manufacturer to sell (and service) its vehicles, acting as the retail middleman between factory and driveway.
from Straightforward English carpentry: 'dealer' (one who deals, trades, or distributes goods, from Old English 'dǣlan' — to divide or share out) plus the suffix '-ship,' which turns a role into an institution or state of being (as in 'leadership' or 'township'). So 'dealership' simply means the organized business-state of being a dealer — the word itself is 20th-century American commercial vocabulary, born alongside the rise of franchised auto sales.
- invented add-ons
- fabric protection spray costs them pennies, sells for hundreds
- the finance office
- where the real profit margin actually lives
- sticker price
- a opening bid, not a fact
- floor plan loans
- dealers often rent inventory from the bank itself