[thegrim33]

I mean, there's only two possibilities:

1) There's a grand conspiracy between all the dealerships in the country where they've all secretly formed a cartel together and have all agreed to all abide by the same artificially high prices.

or

2) There's legitimate economic reasons for prices to be high. If there wasn't, then any single dealership could simply lower their artificially high prices and then make more profit by stealing all the customers away from their competitors and increasing their sales.

[caslon]

Dealerships are essentially cartels already. There's a reason it's illegal for manufacturers to directly sell vehicles, and it's not because the consumers don't want it. It's not because the manufacturers don't want it. What does that leave you?

[nradov]

Most manufacturers don't want to own dealerships. They don't see it as an efficient use of capital.