News Snapshot:
Right now, for the most part, when you buy a new car you’re not actually buying it from the company that makes it. Your money does not go directly to Ford, or to BMW, or Volkswagen, or Hyundai. The dealership you’re buying from is, in almost all cases, an independent business, which operates a franchise, and which buys its stock – the cars – at wholesale prices from the company that makes them or from a local distributor. That is about to change. BMW has confirmed to The Irish Times that it will move to an agency sales model starting...
