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I don't know any specific to the auto sales industry, but I have worked with a lot of people in similar scenarios (ie: vacuum parts - lots of sku's, items, inventory) - and they have been pretty happy with Magento. You're probably familiar with it already though

First... I am always an advocate of big content pages... 2000+ words and six great photos make me smile - and 3000 + nine photos is better.   So, I would be inclined to have cedar and pine and a few other species present on this single bigass page with photos... then if you can make another big article about each species I would do it... or a big photo gallery for each species. Regarding the longtail..... you will get more longtail (in my opinion) with 2000 words on one page than you get from four pages with 500 words on each.  It will not happen immediately but check in a year.

My experience with this is changing them in the IIS. I haven't moved out of a ASP.net environment, but I had to write mods for the handling of the parameters when we redesigned. I bet your hosting company can help with some mods to the htaccess file. Maybe this will help. http://www.phatz.com/301redirect.php

I thought it would be super cool if someone would post the exact syntax to use in .htaccess to make this happen.  For all the hordes of info out there on redirects and htaccess, it's amazingly hard to find the code for this one.  Here is what worked for me: <code>RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]</code>

No problem at all - good luck!