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The article focuses on the new rules and considerations for buying a new car, focusing on the purchase of vehicles at dealerships. It discusses various surveys showing the appeal of car dealerships for car buyers despite the age of online shopping which has significantly changed the car-buying experience. Topics include the demand for transparency by the millennials, simplicity and trust, getting satisfaction, and trust.

The article discusses the inspirational impact of technology firm Apple's seamless customer interaction, effortless problem solving, and speedy service on car makers including Chevrolet to interacts with dealers and offers the views of Brad Miller, president of Miller-Nicholson, which owns dealerships of cars on the same. It mentions that Toyota's limited test of no-haggle transactions at Lexus dealerships and Chevrolet's hospitality workshops at the Disney Institute, Florida.

The article reports on how U.S. car dealers are changing their selling strategies to resemble the Apple Store, a digital distribution system for mobile applications developed by technology company, Apple Inc. Topics include how these strategies are replacing hard-sell tactics and days of haggling, how it is intended to improve customer experience especially of millennials, and examples of car-dealers who are shifting over to no-haggle sales such as Miller-Nicholson, Toyota and Chevrolet.

The article discusses the emerging trend of car dealers and car makers to bring their business for online shopping process. Topics discussed include start of a pilot program car maker Toyota for its Scion brand, impact of third-party shopping services such as TrueCar on automobile industry and threatened action against car stores for advertising below-invoice prices.

The article looks into the alleged digital wars between car makers, dealers, and middlemen. Topics include the split of U.S. car dealer AutoNation and third-party shopping service TrueCar due to differences in business practices and data ownership, the tracking system AutoNation Express introduced in 2014, Toyota's pilot program called Pure Process Plus. It also discusses Ford's online shopping tool Ford Direct, Shop-Click-Drive of General Motors, and third-party shopping services.

The article discusses the direct factory-to-consumer sales of automobile manufacturer Tesla's cars in New Jersey. Topics discussed include permission to sale Tesla's cars at four locations in the state by Governor Chris Christie; plans of Tesla to deal directly with customers and spread the electric-car gospel; and the views of Tesla's chairman Elon Musk on a hybrid dealership model in the future.

The article discusses issues related to direct sales efforts of automobile firm Tesla Motors. Topics discussed include how Tesla managed to circumvent legal barriers to direct factory-to-consumer sales in various states of the U.S., effort of the automobile firm to cut out the middleman and deal directly with customers, blog post from three Federal Trade Commission directors titled "Direct-to-Consumer Auto Sales: It's Not Just About Tesla" on retail approach of Tesla.