Amazon offer cars

  Amazon, which launched with an ambition to become the "everything store", is adding another product to its online shopping site: cars. Buyers in the US will be able to browse and purchase vehicles from dealers on Amazon starting next year, according to an announcement from the company. The head of Amazon said the move was aimed at "changing the ease with which customers can buy vehicles online". The selection will be limited to the Hyundai brand to start, it said. Online car sales remain a tiny fraction of the car market, but a big surge in such transactions during the pandemic shattered the assumption that customers would avoid making such a big purchase online. Forecasters are expecting such sales to become a bigger part of the business in the years ahead. "There is certainly a segment of the population, which I believe is growing, which has huge trust in Amazon and other online retailers and they may prefer to never interact with another human being when p...