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...designated the city's official vehicle, but the Mercedes dealer does just fine too. Though the oil business has been a tad slow lately, Edgar's Lone Star Mercedes-Benz is Canada's largest independent dealer, selling cars that range right up to $85,000. Contemplating his spanking new showroom with 8,000 sq. ft. of black marble, Mike Edgar is a cockeyed optimist about the future -- like most Calgarians. "We wouldn't have gone to this expense, bordering on decadence," he says, "if we thought the business was going to be dicey, or even questionable...
Impressive as these devices are, it may be some time before many of them are available in GM cars. The company is still struggling to streamline a lumbering bureaucracy that has slowed a new car's progress from drawing board to showroom. In fact, some of the new technologies that GM was showing off last week -- like the Quad 4 engine that offers eight-cylinder power in an economic four-cylinder design -- were first offered in similar form in cars built by competitors...
...carved swinging doors. "I can't remember if the spring- controlled hinge would have been on the top or the bottom in 1907," he says, scratching his head. But he does know that the doors, decorated with carved vines, leaves and grapes, will bring a buck in the showroom. "In New York City, art deco was last year," he says. "Now the decorators all want Louis XV Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous sort of stuff...
...average of 400 Dale City customers a day dine on Swedish food in IKEA's strategically located restaurant, just off the showroom floor. Most-asked-for dish: Swedish meatballs. Says Micha Baur, the West German who is the store's manager: "Very often people make their buying decisions in our restaurant. You can overhear them. 'Should we buy this table or that table? What do you think, honey?' " After making the choice, shoppers proceed to the self- service warehouse, where they find the goods on neat rows of shelves...
...leases are increasingly available from auto companies and dealers, as well as from financial institutions. While most showroom personnel still push first for sales, two-thirds of the nation's 25,150 auto dealers now arrange leases as well. The Consumer Bankers Association says 53% of its member banks leased cars last year, up from just 26% in 1983. General Motors Acceptance Corp. (1986 assets: $90.78 billion) says the number of leases on its books has increased from about 50,000 in 1982 to about 600,000 last year. GM's Pontiac Division last month introduced 50-month cut-rate...