Bill Gates wrote a book about how cheap computers were saving us so much money that we ought to let them do everything. Now we know why. Automotive retail an

Bill Gates wrote a book about how cheap computers were saving us so much money that we ought to let them do everything. Now we know why. Automotive retail and repair is not a pretty business if you follow the money. The full dealership retail price of some of the plastic parts with no electronics in them can be over 95% markup. The logic is that because there are so many dealers and so many brands of almost identical cars, the honest dealers need to make money on repairs or starve, and cars are getting so reliable that they have to make so much money on so few repairs that you don't even want to know how much.