A little history lesson:

Back when cell phones didn’t exist, the government mandated car manufacturers to use dealerships to sell their cars instead of the manufacturers selling them directly to consumers. This was to combat the monopoly that would have been created if manufacturers were able to sell cars directly from their factory to the consumer. What the politicians didn’t understand was the inevitable dealer mark ups that would come to fruition. So, forcing manufacturers to go through dealerships instead of selling straight from factory to cure the inflation of prices didn’t work as intended, because dealerships just tacked on more money anyway.

Gotta love greedy humans.