Used Car Dealers Are the New Masters of the Universe

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The used car business tends to evoke images of dodgy salesmen in goofy plaid sports coats, the kind of thing portrayed in 1980’s Used Cars (Kurt Russell) or 1990’s Cadillac Man (Tim Robbins, Robin Williams), in which Robbins’s character takes a dealership hostage. Used car lots are seen as icky vestiges of a simpler, sleazier time in American capitalism….