Tred launched its home delivery test drive service in the Greater Seattle area today for people looking to buy a new car and announced raising $1.8 million in seed funding.     

Isn't everything about the process of buying a car just ... fantastic? Yeah, not so much.

Buying a new car is a high-value transaction, one that is often time-consuming and stressful. Tred, a Seattle startup, is trying to ease at least part of the process by delivering cars for consumers to test drive from their homes. Unlike electric car maker Tesla, which is fighting car dealer associations in several states to [...]

Is this the future of car shopping? Tred today is taking the wraps off a new service in the Seattle area, which allows car shoppers to test drive a variety of vehicles — everything from Hondas to Jeeps to BMWs — at their homes or offices for just $19 per car. The six-person company, a... Read More...

Tred, which hopes to provide a service that’s like “Uber for car test drives,” is finally launching its service to the public. The company, which hopes to streamline the process of buying a car by bringing on-demand test drives to your home or office, will first become available in Seattle.