There is a large...business...here in town, where several makes of automobiles are sold, all under the one business-owner's name. The manufacturers are not (as far as I know) related commercially; there are a variety of both foreign and domestic cars. So in this sense of being able to pick and choose brands, perhaps this kind of car dealership is in fact a store. ("Nobody walks away", heh.)
Speaking of ordering from a dealer--I can remember my father doing that with no problem. He'd tell the salesman what color he wanted, for ex., and the salesman was happy to oblige (and not only that, drove it to our house when it arrived). Nowadays, you'd get a pitying look at best, and laughed off the lot at worst, if you tried to get the salesman to order something from the factory.
