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The Lucrative, Barely Legal Business of Shipping Luxury Cars to China

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High-dollar rides are cheap in California compared to Shanghai, so entrepreneurs pay straw buyers cash to snap them up and send ’em overseas. Automakers want to stop them, but dealers don’t want to play cop.

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