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Meanwhile, Most car/truck buyers are terrified they are $40k under water when they want to trade in their rapidly depreciating asset

Sam's goes for the ridiculous chicken tax.

Direct sales will be the future. Still plenty for "dealerships" to do for maintenance and equipment upgrades.. But that will be work.

Last time I bought a vehicle (Toyota), I shopped online, got the full and final price online, took it out for a test drive, signed the papers and drove away. It was Buyer's Bliss.

another industry being killed by greed -

Maybe dealers shouldn't be awful.

Oh you don't negotiate on price anymore? Then why am I talking to you? I'll just order it online.

Ford tried this in Tulsa years ago. Buying a car was pleasant. But the dealerships shut it down.

Good. Dealerships and their backhanded tactics have made purchasing a car one of the most dreaded experiences in the American Zeitgeist for decades. Dealers should be scared of solutions that make them look bad

Oh no, anyway...

Open the US to BYD and let consumers decide!

Wish America was a capitalistic society and I could buy a BYD.

Whatever model works so long as those vehicles are EV’s.

Dealerships are 2 of the 3 bad parts of any car ownership; purchasing and repair/maintenance, the third is insurance.

The problem with the dealerships is they don’t let you look. They start closing on the first car you see with cheap salesman tactics. They need to clearly price the car with best available price, let people sit in the car and stop paying everyone on commission.

I can configure a laptop to my preferred specs online, and have it arrive at my house a few days later. Why can't I do the same with a vehicle?

Maybe sell people cars that they want and not push old inventory

New car sales, at least in Europe, have been in the red for decades. But are manufacturers even capable of understanding end customers?

It's like you have to go in ready to duel!

The demo who gets the best deal on cars are white men With direct to consumer your gender and skin color don’t matter everyone pays the same thing.

Car dealerships are a large fraction of the financial backbone of the political right. Breaking the dealership model would be a huge blow to the GOP.

It's not the future. It's the current reality.

Dealerships are the unfortunate beneficiary of state laws protecting their business model against direct sales in most of the states they operate in so until that changes (and car dealers stop getting into politics, especially douches like Moreno) we'll still be dealing with them.

I would rather be mattress shopping than car shopping because of dealerships

That’s one reason I love my Tesla! I don’t have to deal with dealers. The Tesla service centers are excellent!

Who could have predicted that treating consumers like crap by trying to screw them on financing and charging high prices for service would cause people to pursue alternative buying options???

I used to work in the automotive sector and I really hate car dealers, new and used. We should put them all in reeducation camps.

it was a big thing back in the 70's. so whats new?

it is imperative that car dealerships are fully crushed

I'm more terrified of a less competitive landscape with direct sales than dealer franchises.

Dealerships have always prayed on the ignorance of their customers to turn a profit. I never understood why we needed dealerships in the first place. Let them all go away.

Online research. Call and email dealers in the area. Negotiate as much of the deal over the phone. Then, step foot into the dealer. Don’t take anything personal. Say “no” to the finance guy. Say “no” to add ons. Drive off with your new car.

I’d rather be kidnapped by the Taliban.

If Elon Musk got a waiver why can’t all EV manufacturers ?

Do dealers add any value to the car buying process? It seems they only add cost and use high pressure sales techniques to sell buyers overpriced or unnecessary add-ons.

Average America new car near 50,000 China 25 models under 12,000 that are electric.

The NADA is a powerful special interest. Besides who will sell cocain if there are no dealer owners?

If you have ever heard the salesman stories... Most of us are too honest to be car salesman. IF Trump didn't have family money he likely would have been one.

Fuck dealerships and their sales people.

Time dealers were gone. Rat bastards.

Going to a dealership to have someone bullshit you for over half a day trying to rip you off will not be missed.

I mean, how the heck is Billy Bob supposed to get his markup grift and stranglehold prices on shitty dealer service.

I’m guessing the dealerships are more terrified of cars that hardly ever go back to the dealer for $ervice.

Price you pay for screwing customers with misc fees

I recently had a Honda dealership tell me I was too stupid to understand car financing when I asked them to explain how they came up with the taxes because my numbers were different. “You aren’t calculating the tax you have to pay on your cash down payment” We were 4000 off on a Honda Civic

That would really suck to cut out a bunch of sleezy lying high school peaking cunts from the car buying process

Yeah, this is what happens when you try to sell cars like an asshole for 50 years... Somebody else comes up with a better fucking idea and puts you out of business 🤷

Permaplate, Ziebart, Carshield, AVP., et al that exist to provide overpriced add ons to dealers will fail also. They know they provide no value. Thats why they are constantly lobbying to support current franchise laws and resist direct purchase. This can’t happen soon enough.

Those laws are just as asinine as the idea of outlawing the Apple Store and forcing people to go to CompUSA if they want a Mac or iPhone.

Ahhh yes everyone's favorite poor down on his luck South African con man

VW is fighting to sell Scouts directly to consumers.

Another business shooting itself in the foot by being greedy

Imported vehicles will not be able to operate as direct purchase unless people suddenly become cool with waiting several weeks to a month to receive their ordered vehicle. The reason Tesla sells in 3 colors and no options is so they can fill lots full of cars and ship one where it’s ordered.

Direct sales should exist for vehicles and houses. Middleman services in 2026 seem pointless. Vehicles would naturally be cheaper without dealerships. MSRP would be MSRP.

Im not terrified; I'm annoyed to the point I will never buy from a dealership again.

The destruction of car dealerships is the best thing that could ever happen to the American automotive industry.

I loathe Bezos. I dont even have Prime anymore. If Amazon expands their car sales beyond hyundai, I would rather do that than buy from a local dealer.

Tesla did that and after their installed base of customers got larger they realized those boutique stores didn’t have room to deal with repairs or enough space to store inventory. So now they have storage lots and repair facilities. I wonder if 3 separate locations really saves them that much?

Oh well! They won’t be bragging about profit’s now will they!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHkQ... only available in China—- Why Toyota whyyyyyyyyy?

I buy using Costco. Fixed price, no haggling, extremely easy transaction.

Automakers would love this too. Cut out the middle man.

Buying a car is one of the most unpleasant things a person can do.

Yup. Sorry, your business model is about to disappear.

I swear never to buy from a dealership again