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No one will miss dealers and that is entirely the fault of dealerships. An interesting business opportunity in their wake is to find a way to profit from a multi-brand test drive center. I'd love to drive 5 brands against each other - especially unfamiliar newer tech like electrics - without driving to five dealerships. As dealerships close, it will become even more difficult to decide on a car. Not every purchase or lease is as simple as Amazon.

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Don’t many modern online car sale shops allow “risk free” returns?

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Perhaps, but buy (including registration, 45 forms in triplicate, insurance, etc) and return with a week is difficult to do in practice. You are also at the mercy of the seller to accept the return, not argue the tires were used, the car was rained on, or any number of blocks.