In the market for a car? Soon you'll be able to buy a Hyundai on Amazon, and only a Hyundai ( techxplore.com )

postnataldrip , 5 months ago

/ clicks drone delivery option

tsonfeir , 5 months ago

Is Amazon going to replace it when it’s stolen later that night?

partial_accumen , 5 months ago

To comply with the franchise dealership laws, Amazon can't list vehicles for sale the way it lists, say, books or socks. Instead, it needs to partner with dealers.

Okay so nothing new here. Yet another front end for interaction with local dealerships. The NADA continues to get their pound of flesh.

tsonfeir , 5 months ago

Couldn’t they just buy it and resell it as a used car?

Ghostalmedia , 5 months ago

They should do what Volvo is doing. Let people purchase a “subscription” online for the sticker price. Volvo has been able to get around a lot of US dealers bullshit that way.

I got a car through an early iteration of that plan. The “subscription” was basically a shorter lease with insurance bundled in and some more flexibility to cancel. No haggling. You pay the manufacturer direct, and when the subscription is done, you can buy the car used with no BS dealer markup.

A lot of dealers fought, and it’s disappeared and come back a few times. I don’t know all of the legal BS behind it, but they seem to have found some loopholes to sell direct.