Only time will tell if the domestic automakers are truly able to maintain a price discipline.  But whether the industry has its usual comeback this summer (that seems to happen every other year) or whether the industry is more difficult than the inventory data would suggest, wiping out a lot of marginal dealerships, the most productive dealers are likely to thrive.

So today I thought I would just close out by sharing with you a few productivity metrics I have developed that analyzes the large public dealer companies between 2000 and 2006. 

It also stands as further detail and a clarification to a statement I made last week in my note about America's Car-Mart's results.  In my note, I said th ...

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