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...About 83,000 cars were imported through such channels in 2013, according to the Chinese Automobile Dealers Association, compared with overall passenger-vehicle sales of 18m that year....
...Banco Santander is in late-stage talks with Chrysler on a deal in which the Spanish bank’s US consumer finance unit would provide loans to the carmaker’s customers and dealerships....
...Analysts praise Mr Browning’s marketing expertise and knowledge of the US market and its dealership networks, given his long career at GM and Ford....
...The industry executives and analysts argue that VW’s growth initiative – which involves a huge investment of €26.6bn ($35.7bn) in the next three years, the €16bn takeovers of Porsche and its Salzburg dealership...
...By 2011, VW will have spent about €16bn for Porsche’s sports car business and the Porsche family’s Salzburg dealership....
...Tesla itself began selling electric roadsters in the US last year and in June opened the first of four planned European dealerships in London....
...re [the unions] talking about picketing dealerships across the country and getting delivery companies on track to not deliver on time. I?d say it [the vote] was about 50:50....
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