Carsales have no new Ranger listings.

[Franco Cozzo]

Why do dealerships even exist anymore? Why can't I option up the car I want through manufacturers website, buy it with EFT/credit card and they pre deliver it at their holding yards and ship it to my house on the back of a truck?

I look forward to when manufacturers move to a model of having service centers with a few cars for test drives and online buying.

The person who bought my F100 I didn't even speak to them, I just took the photos, put the ad up and paid my business partner $500 to do all the wheeling and dealing then collected the cash.

I sold my 7 Series BMW in 2 texts.

The majority of my customers at work don't speak to me, they put an email order in and their orders arrive in the afternoon or next day and thats the end of it.

The last time I went to the shops to buy something was my GPS on the Thursday before Good Friday because I needed a GPS before driving to Adelaide, otherwise I would have bought it online and it came to my house.

Ford seems to be more interested in trying to force their potential customers hands rather than evolving with the times, if a rural dealership can't compete with the city ones then its time to evolve or die.

Instead of having a few hundred car sales staff nationwide you could have 10 who process online orders and connect customers with their cars - spend less money on overheads, more money on advertising and you could probably sell the product at a lower price rather than trying to make money with massive overheads.

The first new car I bought new I had done all the research myself and then went to the dealership and bought the one they had on the lot, what did I need to deal with their sales staff for I did all the work before I arrived at the dealership?

I don't want to talk to someone to buy a car, nor do I want to speak to your finance people or your rip-off merchant upselling lady, I want to pay for it and get my ****ing car and drive it.