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Studebaker dealer listing, Indiana page (statewide compilation, read in full with validated in-page search); directory and trade carriers as searched
No franchised new-car dealer has been proven inside Roseland's town line in any era, and the strongest single test is now affirmative. The likeliest franchise for a town in South Bend's shadow was a Studebaker point — the hometown make. The statewide Studebaker dealer compilation was opened in full and searched with the method validated in the same session ("South Bend" returned eighteen matches, its houses named); the search for "Roseland" returned zero. The corridor's one current franchised house — Basney's BMW and Mazda stores at 52203 State Road 933 — stands north of the town line in unincorporated Clay Township under a South Bend postal address, at boundary: the Basney family's automotive history reaches back to the 1970s on the dealer's own account, and the same address has traded as Basney Imports for over twenty-five years. The older boundary houses print as pointers only: South Bend's Michigan Street row of 1921; Feferman's Cadillac-Oldsmobile house, a GM dealership in South Bend from 1928 into the late 1970s; the Gates group's first dealership of 1928 (in Plymouth) and its South Bend presence from 1979; Jordan Ford in Mishawaka, "since 1947." The verdict's limit prints with it: an exhaustive trade-press audit (the dealer lists of Automotive News and its predecessors) was not possible, and the negative rests on the carriers named — directories, the Studebaker compilation, current dealer records and the press searched.