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Originally Posted by jar_e
A Ford dealership is a Ford dealership that sells Ford cars. Prices being undercut, etc. doesn't allude to price fixing.
Even so, a Ford dealership would be an extension of the Ford manufacturer anyways. They could sell the car for $1 million dollars if they wanted to. There's nothing that says they have to sell a car at a particular price or anything. People get uppity over price fixing and mix up economics and supply/demand with price fixing.
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That isn't true - new car dealerships are independent franchisees.
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Canada doesn’t have laws against car companies opening up their own stores, Compton says. Tesla and Mercedes Benz have factory stores, he says.
So why haven’t more Canadian car companies switched to Apple Store-style outlets? The companies we contacted either didn’t respond or declined comment.
“In Canada I'm not aware of any efforts to really transform the franchise system,” says George Iny, president of the pro-consumer Automobile Protection Association. “Dealer franchising goes back to the Henry Ford era. It was a means for the car maker to expand their retail sales network and provide service with a local person's capital and initiative.”
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