Twenty-minute test drives are so 20th century. Thanks to digital technology and shifting consumer habits and expectations, that longstanding feature of consumer and automotive culture could face extinction, at least in the longer term. That is by no means certain — more about that in...
Automotive sales are increasing going digital — and more consumers are buying more used products of all types online. Those two retail trends have recently collided in Southeast Asia, where Carro, an automotive marketplace and financing provider, reportedly has bought Jualo, an online marketplace for...
Let us now praise the used car. Let us praise the used automobile, even as self-driving cars and trucks promise to disrupt the automotive industry and culture — and the larger economy — in ways as significant as the construction of the interstates and the...
For cool concepts, it is hard to do much better than Carvana. Customers who go to Carvana.com or use the mobile app can shop from more than 10,000 vehicles, arrange for financing, make a purchase and schedule delivery at their home or at the car...
December 13, 2019
Twenty-minute test drives are so 20th century. Thanks to digital technology and shifting consumer habits and expectations, that longstanding feature of consumer and automotive culture could face extinction, at least in the longer term. That is by no means certain — more about that in a bit — but that prediction stands as one of […]
February 23, 2018
Americans like owning and driving cars — 88 percent of those who are legally able to drive are owners of cars, according to Pew, giving the U.S. the world’s second-highest...
June 09, 2020
Trouble may be brewing in the key auto finance sector in the months ahead amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus, despite a drop in loan delinquency rates in the United States in the first quarter, a new report by credit agency Experian finds. Both 30- and 60-day delinquencies on auto loans dropped in the […]
