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I'm the same way. I think younger buyers prefer this model for new vehicles (new only). Whether its a car, snowmobile, motorcycle, or boat. Pick out the car, pick out the dealer, line up financing, and I'll come pick it up. It's not for everyone (ex. my parents) but its an important enough trend that some OEMs are behind it.




Car salesmen aren't annoying the heck out of potential car buyers - BDC's are.




Cost is the least of the worries. There's a lot of resistance to introducing this process into dealerships and rightly so. I just hope that dealers themselves recognize the change in consumer behavior and collectively build their own processes/models rather than someone like TrueCar, Edmunds, AutoTrader, etc.