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Well, this was an episode with surprising results, to put it mildly, and one which provides the second season with a strong start.

In a nutshell, successful residential real estate investor and car buff Pete Athans has sunk his entire life’s savings into a new used car concept. The problems with this move are two-fold. One, Pete doesn’t really understand the car business. Two, he has this very odd idea that a dealership should also be a neighborhood hangout where people will come to watch television and play video games instead of just buying cars.

The result is that he has sunk $4 million of personal funds into a money-losing concept that wastes about 95% of its retail footage. The interior of the building is a huge empty cavern with just three cars in a space that should hold twenty. There’s also a wing that serves as a lounge outfitted with leather furniture and wall-mounted flat screens TVs. This space could easily hold another ten vehicles.

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