It’s happened during the pandemic. It’s up to manufacturers to restore order to the supply lines and start building cars for everyone again. But they also certainly can (and appear to) completely transform the concept of what car inventory, purchasing, and ownership looks like to leverage more profit out of the market …

Dealers are the barrier to you paying lifetime subscriptions on your car like you do for other consumer electronics, which manufacturers are very much trying to transform cars into. 

Yes, the bank will sit on the title until the proper owner needs it, usually. They don’t automatically send it out because it’s possible that you’ve moved or something like that, creating more of a mess. If you had sold it, your buyer would be in a world of hurt when they got to the DMV. Even if you had never helped…

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Brother, as you know, dealers have been doing this for decades without these huge problems. This is DIGITAL dealers. This is CARVANA. This is auto manufacturers and Tesla. companies that have “disrupted” the space and now claim the rules everyone has had to follow for decades are too restrictive.

I’ve never worked in a car dealer, and in terms of my own business, I will be fine regardless of it’s Ford selling direct or Bob Jones’ Family Ford. I have this incredible ability to empathize with people who aren’t me and think of things beyond my consumer access to goods.

GM is converting their Bolt factory to build electric Silverados. Those start at 40k with no add-ons and without accounting for the crazy market. The direction manufacturer’s are taking things is as clear as ever. 

In cases where you have a lien the title is never supposed to touch your hands. The bank owns that car, and as such, keep posession of the title. When you sold your car, the dealer that handled that took care of securing the title from your bank. Part of why new digital dealerships and, eventually, the manufacturer’s…

Marr kicks ass on We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

“Oh wow, cool!”

By Carvana. Traditional car dealers have been working within these models for decades without a problem. That’s why you see the law now, in the specific state where Carvana is about to lose their dealer’s license.

That’s because you are typically buying from CA dealers and registering in CA. When a vehicle is sold between state lines things get much more complex, and in the case of Carvana, well over 70% of their sales are crossing state lines because they are listing online inventory nationwide. It’s not sustainable. But as…

I’ve been attempting to warn about this for a couple of years here but, here we go again, hear me out please:

Part of why you are seeing nonstop negative press about dealerships from manufacturers themselves is because they want to destroy the dealer model by selling directly to you. They want to leverage giant online…

The Backwards Compatibility patent was a scheduled renewal of old technology. 

You MADMAN!!!

What’s going on here. There is so much to this story and intra-state car sales and all we can muster is “wow lol how crazy is this?” It’s a big shift in the industry and exploded last year. You guys should get off of Twitter and start investigating trends in the industry, this level of disconnect from reality is kind…

Well my apologies but online bloggers who started watching Drive to Survive a couple of years ago have determined that for those 50 years nothing has been happening on the track.

Additional thought to the bus stuff - broke people used to live in the city proper, in Denver where the busses are most active and have less private control (a lot of the busses outside of the city are technically operated by contractors.) Due to changing demographics the city itself is now primarily occupied by much…

I don’t disagree with that but I grew up broke without cars living in the city - we rode RTD every day. At the time (mid-late 90s) it was considered one of the best transit companies in the nation. Since then millions and millions have been unloaded into a half assed light rail system that doesn’t get people most…

TREX was the last big project I remember that didn’t leave tolls as it’s primary legacy, but yes, by the time it was done growth had outstripped it. I worked nearly a decade in the industrial park behind breakfast king there on Santa Fe and Mississippi, our quickest way into Denver was on north SF, and that goddamn…