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Snethkamp Chrysler Jeep Grows with Dodge Addition (The Auto Channel)

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich., Dec. 4 -- One of the nation's oldest and original auto dealerships -- Bill Snethkamp Chrysler Jeep -- is becoming one of the nation's largest with the addition of the Dodge nameplate to its Highland Park store on Woodward Avenue, inside the city of Detroit.
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Ford sets out to slash 600 dealerships

Written by steve
Monday, 18 September 2006
Ford Motor Co. wants to eliminate as many as 600 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury dealerships over three years through its store consolidation plan, sources close to the plan say. Read more at: http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060918/SUB/60916026/1128/rss06&rssfeed=rss06.

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