{"id":19273,"date":"2015-11-12T06:47:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/a-five-story-vending-machine-for-cars-just-opened-in-nashville"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:24:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:24:46","slug":"a-five-story-vending-machine-for-cars-just-opened-in-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/a-five-story-vending-machine-for-cars-just-opened-in-nashville","title":{"rendered":"A five-story vending machine for cars just opened in Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-five-story-vending-machine-for-cars-just-opened-in-nashville.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Buying a car is a hellish process. The reward for spending hours researching the right one is a trip to a local dealership \u2014 an experience that assaults the nerves in such a way that it\u2019s only rivaled by appointments with the dentist. But what if buying a car was easier than that? What if it was as easy as, say, a vending machine?<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, a company called Carvana followed in the footsteps of companies like CarMax by trying to move the car buying experience completely online. The process of purchasing a car on Carvana\u2019s website includes all the steps that normally take place at a dealership: getting approved for and selecting financing, selecting a warranty, and signing the contract. It\u2019s a process that, in an interview with <em>The Verge<\/em>, Carvana CEO Ernie Garcia is quick to point out takes many Carvana customers 20 minutes or less.<\/p>\n<p>This left customers with just one dealership interaction: choosing pickup or delivery. And Garcia says that, more often than not, Carvana customers were choosing pickup \u2014 so much so that a subsequent pickup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/videos\/b\/cffde5be-af7c-49a6-b3e1-8156c97e8434\">store in Atlanta<\/a> was a rousing success. Now, though, Carvana is adding some spice to that experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/11\/12\/9718438\/carvana-car-buying-vending-machine-life-sized\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buying a car is a hellish process. The reward for spending hours researching the right one is a trip to a local dealership \u2014 an experience that assaults the nerves in such a way that it\u2019s only rivaled by appointments with the dentist. But what if buying a car was easier than that? What if [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63719,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19273\/revisions\/63719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}