Apart from a few cities, the nearest service center is a state and a half away. If you don't like the staff/service there, your next option is shipping your car

Apart from a few cities, the nearest service center is a state and a half away. If you don't like the staff/service there, your next option is shipping your car two states away when it needs work. There are few enough car manufacturers that none of them will build out significantly more company-owned service centers than the others; you won't be able to "vote with your dollars" on better coverage now that an expansive dealer network can't be counted on for OEM service. Dealers, right now, make a lot of money on service. Why the hell would manufacturers, in an alternative world where dealers are no longer protected by laws, skip out on that profit? There are also lots of independent auto workshops that never had anything to do with selling brand new cars. Manufacturers can't count on bulk sales to dealers of each year's new models, so there's higher risk of a model not ramping up production fast enough to become profitable, and of the entire company going out of business in a recession. Well yes, theres an inherent risk in running a business. Who knew. Dealerships will be much smaller, no longer having to stock and earning a profit from new car sales; hundreds of thousands of jobs will gradually disappear. But new cars will get cheaper. Jobs for the sake of "jobs" are not sane economic policy and will eventually be to the loss of everyone. Comparison shopping gets much harder -- you won't be test-driving new and used cars of different makes on the same lot anymore. You probably won't be able to test-drive a new car and drive that car home the same day anymore either. Why the hell not? Tesla offers testdrives, and you can even buy a car right now if they happen to have an orphaned one at a service center. They are still production constrained right now so thats obviously not how they can sell cars this very moment. Other manufacturers can offer this easily.