But the wholesale auctions left CarMax with too many quickly depreciating, dime-a-dozen, one-year-old Ford Tauruses out of rental fleets and not enough of the low-mileage, five-year-old Honda Accords used-car drivers dream about.
"These are dime-a-dozen lawsuits that are easy to file, " says Ted Frank of the American Enterprise Institute, who predicted the "inevitable free-riding class action" on the Web site Overlawyered.com one day before the first suit was filed in Los Angeles.
But the wholesale auctions left CarMax with too many quickly depreciating, dime-a-dozen, one-year-old Ford (nyse: F - news - people ) Tauruses out of rental fleets and not enough of the low-mileage, five-year-old Honda (nyse: HMC - news - people ) Accords used-car drivers dream about.