Friday, September 26, 2008

Stripping away the veil of mystery.

Probably the last holdout, automotive retail has managed to keep pricing a mystery. It’s a testament to the strength of NADA and the dealer brotherhood. But there’s this one guy, Scott Painter, who repeatedly disrupts the automotive retail industry.

His latest venture is Truecar.com. It’s his third attempt to break the traditional car buying model and make buying a car online as easy as buying anything else. It’s currently in Beta and open to anyone that requests access.




I found truecar.com from a techcrunch article after searching on ‘honest dealerships’. You can vote on whether you think it will thrive or fail

Pricing sites seem to be the latest rage for automotive sites. Here are a few pricing site from the techcrunch article

Pricehub
realcartips

What do you think would be truly disruptive to the automotive retail industry?

1 comment:

Joseph B Antley said...

RedNumbat is the only site I see 'shaking up the industry'. Real cars, real dealers and real prices that cars can really be bought for in less than a minute.