Once, years ago we were quoted from a manager at a toyota dealership that Toyota themself had sent down a memo to all dealerships not allowing them to discount specific models to keep the integrity of the pricing, and therefore the only discount they could give us was in our trade in value and that was all the room they had to negotiate.
I see what you mean about price fixing, but I could also see it as if all dealers are corporate, and the head office states no discounting, then not so much price fixing as policy, but then again, I don't know how many dealerships are corporate or private.
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