TORRANCE, CA: Improving customer relations with young buyers is the main focus of a new sales training program American Honda Motor Co. is offering dealers. The training is tied to the introduction of the new Honda Element sports wagon in the US later this month.

The training emphasizes how Honda salespeople should deal with the young male audience that the Element is targeting. Included are tips on what to say and what not to say to Generation Y prospects.

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