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A car can be sold as "new" as long as the warranty in service date has not yet been activated. Dealers use "new" cars as demos, for test drives, and intra-deal
by OrangeMango 7y ago
A car can be sold as "new" as long as the warranty in service date has not yet been activated. Dealers use "new" cars as demos, for test drives, and intra-dealer transfers and deliveries.
If you ever go to buy a new car and it has more than 20 miles on the odometer, you should verify the warranty in service date before buying. If it has been activated, you should be getting a price that makes the transaction financially worthwhile.
- spike021 7y agoAnyone who knows what they want out of a "new" car isn't going to want to accept one that already has 50+ miles on it, and 50 already is stretching it. As a potential new car owner, you don't know how that car was driven for those tens or possibly in this case hundreds of miles. Maybe not everybody cares, but there will definitely be a segment of the market that does. I don't think that's really an issue for this startup, but would be for any dealer they're working with that doesn't want to take significant hits because of it.