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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 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago (8 children)

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.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why can't they just copy Tesla's model? Or does Amazon operating a storefront on behalf of the manufacturer preclude that?

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Why can’t they just copy Tesla’s model? Or does Amazon operating a storefront on behalf of the manufacturer preclude that?

The "on behalf of the manufacturer" is the definition of a dealership.

If Amazon manufactured cars themselves, and they never sold them through a dealership ever, then they could avoid much of the dealership rules in many states, just like Tesla is. Even then, there would be some states that don't allow non-dealership sales or service centers. Again Tesla has gotten around this in a few times by setting up showrooms (not dealerships) and service centers on Tribal lands.

For Amazon to follow Tesla's model, they'll need to be a car manufacturer that never sells through dealerships.

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