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Old 07-13-2019, 10:34 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jcp123 View Post
I don’t know about the car market in Chambana, but I know I found an el-strippo Elantra manual at my local dealer during that time for around $11k. My city isn’t terribly into small cars, but it isn’t a terribly wealthy area, either. I’m sure it was a loss-leader, and I’m fairly certain the “2-for-$14k” cars were too. It’s hard to move loss-leaders. If they were allocated two of them, I wouldn’t be surprised if the salesmen had instructions to just move them the hell along.
Oh definitely--it seemed like just a gimmick to get people in the door. Note, that didn't happen here--I just remember reading about it somewhere.
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