How do buyers find a car?

On the marketplace a buyer browses every car on offer that may be found, with filters such as make, model, years, price, mileage, gearbox, colour and a radius around a town. They can also describe the car in their own words, for example "Porsche 964 with full service history under 100,000 km", and Carnoat turns that into filters, asking a few short questions about what is still open.

Open cars show their photos, exact price and mileage. Discreet cars appear as anonymous profiles with a blurred photo, rounded figures and at most the province, so they cannot be traced. Private cars never appear. Open cars can also be found without an account, on the public For sale page and its pages per make and model.

Buyers can save a search and are told when a matching car appears. Owners see, as a range, how many verified buyers are looking for a car like theirs, never who. Under "Why this order?" we explain how results are ordered: no car is placed higher for payment.