Mass-production at Wolfsburg, it was reckoned, would make this car a salesroom winner.

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Last month, Mr. Yang arrived at a Beijing luxury hotel and made his way into the packed salesroom of Poly, China's biggest auction house.

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The net result is that fewer people are now completing the process which starts with them walking through the salesroom door and finishes with their signing a credit agreement.

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But building a western-style dealer network, as planned, looks a Himalayan task given today's typical salesroom: a squalid concrete bunker, featuring limited choice, surly service and machinegun-toting security guards.

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On the evening of Nov. 6, in the packed Rockefeller Center salesroom of Christie's auction house, four buyers were vying for a 1955 Picasso oil of Jacqueline, the artist's second wife.

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In a packed Christie's salesroom in London last February, the Morisot canvas, "After Lunch, " sold for roughly three times its high estimate after a protracted back-and-forth between two telephone bidders from Russia and the U.S. The piece is believed to have gone to an American.

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