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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

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Hey there. Welcome to the WardsAuto Dealer 5 for Wednesday, Nov. 8. To start your day, we've put together items from WardsAuto.com and across the Internet. So let's go:

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An eLEND survey of auto dealerships offers a good news/bad news scenario on how digital retailing is progressing.

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The days of acquiring used-car inventory by gut instinct “are 100% over,” contends Sam Slaughter, dealer principal at Sellers Auto Group, located in Farmington Hills, MI, and representing Buick, GMC and Subaru.

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In a special Wardsauto webinar, vAuto’s Brian Finkelmeyer will provide modern market insights; describe new performance metrics  and tell how to stock and price new vehicles more thoughtfully. It is at at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT on Wednesday, Nov. 15. And it’s free.  Register here.

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Auto dealerships need to redefine the new 4Ps of Automotive Marketing as product, price, place, and person. Download this guide to learn why person has emerged as the new fourth P and how to succeed by maximizing the 4Ps in context of a rapidly evolving industry.

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General Motors expects to recoup production of its No.2-selling vehicle sometime around the New Year after a strike by workers at one of the automaker’s Canadian assembly plants stretched inventories of the Chevrolet Equinox thin.

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Now for the latest dealer news from  CBT Automotive.

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That’s our WardsAuto Dealer 5 for today. We’ll be back soon with more high fives.

And to reach the editor for whatever reason (i.e. comments, complaints, questions, directions), contact Steve Finlay at sfinlay@wardsauto.com.

OK, finally... Forward this alert to dealership colleagues. The more in-the-know people at your place, the better it is. Over and out.

Now for the legal stuff...