The original purpose of dealerships was to isolate "vehicle manufacturer going bankrupt" from "organization you bought your car from going bankrupt" events. Th

The original purpose of dealerships was to isolate "vehicle manufacturer going bankrupt" from "organization you bought your car from going bankrupt" events. The idea was "if you buy a VinFast" from vinfast and they exit the market, you're 100% hosed, but if you buy a VinFast from "Karl Marx VinFast and Fiskar Dealerships of North Idaho" you can go back and talk to KMoNI Inc about your new car. The dealership model was established a very long time ago back in the cambrian explosion era of car manufacterers and people were buying cars from companies like Auburn, Cole, Crow, Davis, Dixie, Durant, Elcar, Grant, King, Kline, Lafayette, Kurtz, Marmon, Mercer, Overland, Peerless, Pilot, Roamer, Saxon, Stearns, Velie, Wescott and Winton [1] and then the company would vanish and there would be no support. [1] https://www.supercars.net/blog/cars-of-the-1920s https://www.supercars.net/blog/cars-of-the-1920s