China’s Alibaba wasn’t the first company to create a car vending machine – that honor belongs to a Singaporean entrepreneur who transformed Singapore’s Autobahn building into what appears to be a giant PEZ dispenser stocked with luxury cars. But after months of planning, Alibaba’s T-Mall (in partnership with Ford) has opened the country’s first car vending machine in the city of Guangzhou. Plans are already in motion for a second vending machine to be opened in Beijing, and the company is already planning its third machine in Hangzhou. Customers can test drive the vending machine’s inventory – and if they have the cash on hand to put down a deposit, they can drive away in their new car. Booking test drives and other tasks can be handled via the Tmall (also known as Taobao) mobile app. According to the company, customers can pick up their cars in 10 minutes, […]