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

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In the market for a car? Soon you'll be able to buy a Hyundai on Amazon, and only a Hyundai::This is the year you can finally buy a car on Amazon. Well, one kind. Eventually.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Sounds like a bunch of dealers trying to stay relevant .