economics of transitioning right especially if you are one of those big mainstream brands with two or three hundred dealers out there in shitsville tesla already sells cars this way of course and so does genesis the hyundai spin-off genesis sales are roughly zero honda sales trending in that direction merck is about NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN annually here and i typically don't recommend people buy them anyway i never recommend tesla mainly because the quality and the support are so crap and ditto three-prong and honda incidentally current bottom line impact to me is thus roughly zero for this non-move i typically recommend mainstream brands that are reasonably high quality and which deal ethically with their customers in the domain of support and to my knowledge none of them are laying agency model foundations like covertly there would obviously be a cone of silence on this at least initially but it would leak fairly soon because as soon as dealers get a sniff of this it would be out okay because they're all against it hypothetically they could all be conspiring right now behind closed doors i guess there could also be a giant titanium friggin teapot full of lizards like a hundred kilometers in diameter on the other side of the moon in perpetual geosynchronous eclipse how would you friggin know anything's possible is what i'm saying but there's no evidence for a move right now excuse me as mark has said this is a belief issue for him and one can of course believe whatever one wants but i'd suggest that it's probably best to believe only the things you can argue for preferably using facts faith-based beliefs are typically difficult to prosecute broadly because faith is really just a shorthand way of saying well i'm pretending to know something i really don't know and that's not specifically a comment about religion incidentally before you get your freaking knickers twisted and the veggies get gangrene or something i don't want that to happen to you on the cusp of a perfectly serviceable weekend it's a comment broadly about faith in isolation concerning anything pragmatist here so shoot me i'd argue there's no industry move in this direction that i can see four brands out of NUMBER_TOKEN is certainly not a move it's an experiment and frankly interim results are not looking that good are they marianas trench for honda NUMBER_TOKEN million dollar impediment for three prong stalled on the grid for genesis and tesla's really just electric scientology inside a trillion dollar bubble currently local laws already allow this non-move to occur like there's nothing illegal about mercedes or honda's shift to the agency model not that i can see nobody is alleging that there's a regulatory impediment to doing this for any car maker who wants to have a crack the dealership model is also kind of archaic as marcus said we furiously agree on that it's still freaking NUMBER_TOKEN inside most dealerships isn't it like a bad episode of mad men i'd like to go to a dealership tomorrow based on the jb hi-fi retail model or david jones or something i want to see cx-NUMBER_TOKEN next to forrester and sportage in tucson under the one roof door-to-door spec for spec
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