If you want to buy a car while going for a walk, London offers you its first car vending machine

It is not exactly a new idea, but a vending machine designed to offer cars in a vending machine seems to be gaining ground and is one more way of bringing the possibility of buying a car closer. We have seen some of these car vending machines in Singapore, with 60 luxury cars, and there is one more in the United States, but the one in London is designed for a city car. Specifically, the car vending machine installed in the English capital houses a single model, a Nissan ZOE that can be bought and driven away.

This vending machine allows sales of up to 21,000 pounds sterling and offers haggling-free transactions, that is, at a single fixed price. In return, the buyer can swipe their credit card through the machine and will receive the vehicle papers in their name and the keys, so they can drive it away as soon as it leaves the machine. To design this car vending machine, three engineers from the company Auto Trader worked on the unit, which integrates the storage system, the payment and the release of the vehicle once payment has been processed.

The car on sale in the machine is a Renault ZOE, one of the most popular urban electric cars in England. Over the last month, nearly half a million internet searches have been made to find an electric car. That is quite normal, considering that London is one of the most restrictive cities regarding urban traffic because of polluting emissions.

So a Renault ZOE is a good solution, and it avoids many formalities when buying an electric car and means it can be used immediately. We are left wondering whether the car comes with insurance included and all the paperwork in order, although it is presumably so. The Renault ZOE available in this car vending machine in London has a price of 22,600 pounds sterling, all included. Just bring your credit card close and in a moment… new car!

This type of sale seems to be increasingly popular, with a fixed price and immediate delivery, compared with visits to dealerships, with haggling and buyer demands. In this way, the equipment list is what it is and so is its price, which speeds up the sale. Of course, any human contact is lost, something many of us still prefer, not to mention the thrill of getting a discount or some extra equipment for free. Although we know that salespeople already have that planned.