I’m yet to be convinced, for what is the point of a vending machine if you can’t shake it down once in a while, but Carvana are stoked. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, this five-storey used car vending machine was unveiled by Carvana – an online used car retailer – and can hold up to 20 cars.

Coin-operated, the glass tower vending machine even has a welcome centre and three customer delivery bays to which the cars are dispensed. Once the car has been purchased online, buyers go to the vending machine where they insert a “Carvana-branded coin into the custom slot, which initiates the vending process”. The buyer then has a seven-day “test drive” period to check out if they actually want the car or not, because, believe it or not, until the car is actually dispensed the buyer has not laid eyes on it.

But how’s this:

Keen to buy a car from a vending machine but don’t live in Nashville? No worries: Carvana will subsidize $200 in airfare and arrange “white glove transportation” from the Nashville airport to the vending machine.

[source: mashable]