Ford to start selling certified used cars on Amazon

Ford Motor is partnering with Amazon to fto dealers merchantability the automaker's certified utilized vehicles connected the e-commerce platform, providing consumers with a mode to store for a car and put financing online.

The Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker connected Monday said the woody allows customers to browse section dealers' pre-owned Ford conveyance selections connected Amazon Autos, and implicit astir paperwork online. Shoppers tin past docket a clip to prime up their car successful person.

The programme volition debut successful Los Angeles, Seattle and Dallas and adhd different locations implicit time, Ford said. 

The vehicles travel with a manufacturer-backed warranty and different benefits, the aforesaid arsenic if they were sold straight done a dealership. 

Ford notes that the lone measurement of the acquisition process that cannot beryllium completed online is the retrieval of the car: "No Amazon Prime transportation for cars!" the institution noted successful a property merchandise announcing the partnership. 

Ford said that astir 180 dealers person truthful acold expressed involvement successful participating successful the program, with 20 having already signed up. 

Amazon Autos first started offering utilized vehicles to shoppers successful August, citing involvement from its trader partners. All vehicles listed for merchantability done Amazon Autos are sold by participating dealerships, not Amazon, which simply facilitates transactions. 

Hyundai Motor Co. has besides partnered with Amazon to merchantability cars done the e-commerce site.

The woody comes arsenic caller car prices deed a grounds precocious successful September, according to data from Kelley Blue Book. The mean American caller car purchaser paid $50,080 that month, marking an all-time high. The mean caller car terms has since dropped beneath $50,000, according to the supplier of car manufacture insights. 

Edited by Aimee Picchi

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