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Auto Finance Add-Ons: Little Bang for the Buck

March 1, 2003
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A new proposal filed at the Texas Legislature would unleash more expensive auto dealer add-on products onto unwary consumers—even though our research indicates that some of these products already cost consumers $1.1 billion too much every year.

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