More and more people are buying cars online so really the dealership model has changed quite a bit. Where it leaves us, is I guess an unknown. I already live in an area where many car dealers are not. Renault have moved out of the area the dealership is now fully Hyundai, yet fiat have moved in with Nissan. So to me it’s nothing new. If you want a certain car as ones locally don’t tick all my boxes or the ap is too high, then I need to travel and that doesn’t always apply to servicing. As the Renault service can be still done locally at Hyundai.
I decided to get a Volvo this time and there used to be a local dealership, but it closed quite a while ago now, they still had a service centre. Well in feb they went bust and closed the doors. So now the other dealers which there are two are 15 to 20 miles away are extra busy now. So for them to just look at my car was 6 weeks. So that’s a bigger issue also. Although with an EV charging at home it doesn’t cost as much to drive there as in a ice car.
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