Real-Life Luxury Car Vending Machine Available In Singapore; Ferrari, Bentley, and Porsche

Typically, brand new luxury cars are bought in two ways. One is to go to a showroom where fawning sales personnel will try to coax the wealthy customers into buying their wares. Another is through conventions where vehicles of all types from various brands are displayed. In Singapore, this is no longer the case since the city features an entire building that acts like a giant vending machine for luxury sets of wheels.

Opening back in December 2016, the 15-story showroom in the port city features vehicles by Autobahn Motors, Reuters reports. It’s being marketed as the "world's largest luxury car vending machine" with 60 slots that are occupied with expensive vehicles from the top brands in the world. These include Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Bentley, among others.

Unlike a regular vending machine, which basically involves putting money in the slot and pushing the appropriate button to get the item that they want, customers can actually check out the vehicles for themselves first before buying. They can pick the unit that they want to inspect via touchscreen, which will then prompt the mechanisms to bring the car over in a minute or two.

Autobahn Motors General Manager, Gary Hong explained that the reason for the giant vending machine was to make more efficient use of space, which is an incredibly rare commodity in Singapore. Instead of going the traditional way, which involves quite a bit of horizontal reach, the company decided that going vertical would be the better choice.

"We needed to meet our requirement of storing a lot of cars. At the same time, we wanted to be creative and innovative," Hong said.

This option doesn’t just apply to Singapore either, Futurism reports since it addresses one of the biggest issues that confronts residents of growing cities. With land becoming an increasingly rare resource, a futuristic concept such as a car vending machine makes a lot of sense.