You can now buy pre-owned Ford vehicles on Amazon

Ford volition beryllium the adjacent automaker to let its vehicles to beryllium featured connected Amazon’s caller online car buying site. Starting today, customers tin browse, finance, and acquisition certified pre-owned Ford vehicles online done Amazon Autos, with in-person pickup astatine a section Ford dealership.

Ford is the 2nd marque name, after Hyundai, to database its vehicles connected the site. But dissimilar Hyundai, which launched with participating dealerships successful 48 cities, Ford’s vehicles volition lone beryllium disposable successful Los Angeles, Seattle, and Dallas. Amazon says it expects much markets to beryllium added soon.

Ford’s dealers inactive volition person tremendous sway implicit these online sales, including mounting the price, maintaining service, and scheduling deliveries. Essentially, Amazon’s level volition beryllium the middleman betwixt the lawsuit and the dealership. As such, Amazon needs to entreaty to dealers astir arsenic overmuch arsenic it does to car shoppers. The institution is making its transportation by arguing that it tin connection “a caller income transmission that connects them with millions of Amazon customers.” And with implicit 310 cardinal progressive users, Amazon surely has the numbers to backmost it up.

The vehicles volition beryllium certified pre-owned, meaning you won’t spot immoderate brand, spanking caller vehicles connected the site. And each the vehicles sold connected Amazon volition beryllium backed by Ford’s warranties and roadside assistance guarantees. According to Ford, each conveyance that appears connected Amazon has been “inspected, reconditioned, and comes with a Ford warranty, Ford Rewards points, and successful immoderate cases, a money-back guarantee.”

“It’s astir delivering the champion of some worlds to our customers,” Robert Kaffl, enforcement manager of Ford US income and trader relations. said successful a release.

People typically hatred car shopping, with most surveys showing that the dealership acquisition tops people’s lists of frustrations. Tesla has helped spearhead a question toward a direct-to-consumer (DTC) exemplary successful which radical bargain their vehicles straight from the company, eschewing a dealership. Forty-eight states person laws that bounds oregon prohibition manufacturers from selling vehicles straight to consumers — though that has started to displacement recently thanks to Tesla’s popularity. Tesla has nary autarkic dealerships, but dealership associations successful aggregate states person filed numerous lawsuits against Tesla to forestall the institution from selling cars directly.