The dealer of record.
In the cloud.

Connect. Transact. Delivered.

Cloud Motors is a licensed dealership with an API where the lot would be. Buy or sell cars through it — wholesale to retail, retail to retail, retail to wholesale — with the dealer-of-record seat already filled. The rail is what makes the transacting doors legally real. Built on the VIN by Vin.

An agent transacting on a Mandate is a counterparty here the way a person is — the seat it needs on the deal is the seat this page describes.

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Three directions.

One seat, whichever way the deal runs.

Most of a car deal is not the car. It is the title, the payoff, the taxes, the registration, and the truck — and each of those steps expects a licensed dealer somewhere in the chain. Cloud Motors is that dealer: held by Vin, reached by API, present on the deal so the other parties do not have to be.

The doors bring the buyers and sellers. The rail brings the seat.

Three deals, one seatcloud.motors.vin
the lanedealer of recordthe driveway
a sellerdealer of recorda buyer
the drivewaydealer of recordthe lane

The middle of the deal never changes; the ends do. In every direction the licensed seat is the same seat, held by Cloud Motors, and the deal closes at the direction’s own door.

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The split of labor.

Vin handles the paperwork lines. You bring funds and/or credit.

In every direction the counterparty provides funds and/or credit — nothing else. Titles, payoffs, taxes, registration, and transport are handled by Vin, each a posted line on one order at commerce.vin.

Every money line is a posted slot until the record fills it. No figure is invented on this page.

the seat, gateddealer licensing gates the seat per title-taking state — where a state’s row is open, the rail quotes and attests; it does not yet sign there. Reading the rail stays free everywhere.

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You bringfunds and/or credit — nothing else$ —

Every figure posts at its line’s own address, on one order at commerce.vin, before anything signs. This page states structure, not prices.

reading the rail: $0 · no account · the money lines post at their own addresses · none posts here

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Who plugs in.

The seat is an API. Anything that closes deals can hold the other side.

Cloud Motors is not a marketplace. It is the dealer of record — the licensed counterparty a lawful vehicle transaction needs — and the counterparty side of the API is open to whatever brings the deal.

What the API signs is what this page attests.

  • MarketplacesList the car anywhere; close it lawfully — the dealer seat comes from the rail, not the listing surface
  • LendersFund the credit line; title and lien perfection post on the same order the loan does
  • AgentsAn agent transacting on a Mandate is a counterparty the way a person is — the seat it needs is this one
  • FundsAcquire and disposition at fleet scale — every unit one order, every order the same seat

the motionsb2a2b.vinan agent brokers the trade — the Mandate is presented, the fee is disclosedb2a2d.vinthe dealership capability embedded downstream — the membrane comes with it

  • One MCP server for the whole platform: apis.vin/mcp
  • Every paid action returns a typed, machine-readable offer
  • Agent payments settle programmatically: x402
  • The dealers’ entrance to the same rails: dealers.vin

Where an agent closes a deal for a person, the seat it uses is this page’s seat, unchanged — everything it does here survives being shown to you.

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The first deal shape.

Wholesale Dropship: lane to driveway, never stocked.

The kernel’s first deal type runs on this rail: a unit bought at the wholesale lane and delivered straight to the buyer’s driveway. Cloud Motors signs as dealer of record; Vin handles title, payoff, taxes, registration, and transport; the buyer brings funds and/or credit.

No lot. No floor. The unit never stocks anywhere.

A drop-shipped dealdropship.vin
Bought at the lane
Titled by the dealer of record
Delivered

Lane to driveway, one order: every line of the split of labor above posts on it, and the buyer’s side of the sheet stays one line long.

The order settles at commerce.vin.

This page describes the seat; the order posts the money. Every deal the rail signs settles as one order at commerce.vin, each line at its own member address. The rail never competes with the doors it makes lawful — it holds the seat, and only the seat.

reading the rail: $0 · no account · one seat · three directions

also answerscloudmotors.vinmotors.vincloud-motors.comserve, never home — 301, path preserved, to cloud.motors.vin

on the rail, heldpayments.vinthe money rail — Stripe Connect under every settling line, held until it binds

For the agent you send

The agent reads the same record you do. Same two routes, three representations — the numbers never differ between them.

motions: B2A2B · B2A2D

curl https://cloud.motors.vin/ -H 'accept: text/markdown'        → the markdown twin of this page
curl https://cloud.motors.vin/{VIN} -H 'accept: application/json' → the record as typed evidence objects
curl https://cloud.motors.vin/{VIN} -H 'accept: text/markdown'    → the record's markdown twin

Machine surfaces on this host: /llms.txt · /icp.json · /.well-known/agents.json · one estate MCP server — apis.vin/mcp (every door a lens; tool results carry the door URL).

Attribution: X-Client-Type: html | md | json | mcp — read for agent-led demand attribution; it never changes the record.