When you buy a car, you are buying - and titling - the car itself. The physical property (not intellectual property)
That dog don’t hunt. With that thinking, the car company removes the intellectual property used to design the car at the end of the assembly line?
This “license” thing is simply a “simple” way to prevent copying without going to the trouble of including protections. Rosetta Stone is a good example and they have spawned a lot of poor customer relations and a whole industry of figuring out how to use their product for free, simply because buyer’s feel rippied off not being able to re-sell (or even install it on another of THEIR computers without a gigantic hassle) when they are done with it.
Being able to re-sell a car increases its original value, otherwise it would only be worth its useful life to the original owner, which might be 1/2 the original sale price.
The intellectual property that the automobile manufacturer is concerned about is called - by in large - a trademark. You don't buy the trademark of the car when you buy the car, you buy the physical property that is the car.
As I said to another poster, their is software in virtually every car. Some of that software is licensed for use in the car by the manufacturer, and some of that software is actually developed by the manufacturer themselves. The license that comes with that software may allow it's resale, but just because you own the car, doesn't mean you own the code that makes the car work.
Different software, different licenses, different limitations, obligation or privileges of the license holder.