My father worked for 30+ years in auto dealerships. He was a mechanic and in the end worked his way up as the service manager. It was made clear to him that sales had to make money and service had to make money and they didn't care how it was done. He is a good and honorable man and even quit one dealership because they pushed crazy service incentives on service writers to up-sell every kind of service you can imagine. That said in the end he retired early because the dealership he was at was bought by a consortium of dealerships and they let him know that his service shop wasn't as profitable as needed and that he needed to up-sell more services to the customers.

In the end dealerships are about making money from their clients by "adding value". Sadly most of the time that value is having the black car in stock -vs- someone down the street who only has the blue one.

It's sad to see a government more concerned about backing the establishment then creating an environment for free trade and new business models.