Subscriptions

Ford announced that it’s lowering the cost of annual and monthly plans for all U.S. customers with Ford BlueCruise-equipped vehicles.

GM has bundled several key features into OnStar One Essentials, which will be included at no cost for eight years.

A few mostly luxury brands offer car subscriptions that provide wheels, maintenance and insurance for one all-in monthly fee.

A car subscription service is similar to the idea of leasing a car, except usually subscription-service users aren’t limited to just one particular vehicle.

Nissan is testing a vehicle subscription service in the Greater Houston area called Nissan Switch, which offers consumers unlimited vehicle switches.

Luxury brands are offering vehicle subscriptions as an alternative to 
 traditional ownership. Are they actually a good deal? We crunch the 
 numbers.