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DECEMBER 20, 2017
Hey there. Welcome to the WardsAuto Dealer 5 for Wednesday, Dec. 20. To start your day, we've put together items from WardsAuto.com and across the Internet. So let's go:

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Volvo’s Anders Gustafsson, during a whirlwind week, met with all 300 of the Swedish automaker’s U.S. dealers, and lived to tell about it.


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Dealertrack's Paul Whitworth rebuts a suggestion that car dealers are limited in choosing ways they can stand out in the auto-retailing marketplace. He lists the ways.

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Don’t knock it until you try it, General Motors tells critics of its new in-vehicle shopping platform, adding it wouldn’t do anything unsafe in the driver-distraction department.

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An Autolist.com survey indicates consumers think a used EV costs $5,000 more than an equivalent gasoline vehicle. (It doesn’t.)

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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...