Email us the catalogue. Every car comes back marked Strong Buy, Consider or Avoid - our verdict, powered by AutoTrader's Retail Ratings. No more typing regs in one by one the night before a sale.
| Verdict | Reg | Vehicle | Mileage | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strong Buy | AB12 CDE | VW Golf 1.5 TSI Life | 41,200 | 92 |
| Strong Buy | FG34 HIJ | Kia Sportage 1.6 GDi 2 | 33,850 | 89 |
| Consider | KL56 MNO | BMW 320d M Sport | 68,400 | 71 |
| Avoid | PQ78 RST | Vauxhall Insignia 2.0 CDTi | 94,100 | 43 |
A 300-car catalogue means 300 AutoTrader lookups. Most dealers get through the first 40 or 50, then buy the rest on gut. That's where the money leaks.
Reg in, wait, read, note it down, next car. Do that 300 times and your evening's gone before you've shortlisted a single lot.
The strongest retailer in the sale might be lot 212. If you only checked the first 50, someone else drives it home.
A car that looked cheap on the day can sit on your pitch for 90 days. That's stock money you can't spend at the next sale.
No software to install, no logins to share. If you can send an email, you can use it.
Forward the auction catalogue to your dedicated Cortex Growth address, or upload it on a form. All we need is a spreadsheet with a registration and mileage for each car.
CSV or Excel, however it arrivesEach vehicle is checked against AutoTrader's Retail Ratings automatically. No manual lookups, no copy-and-paste, no lots skipped because you ran out of evening.
Powered by AutoTrader's Retail RatingsYou get the full catalogue back with our verdict on every car - Strong Buy, Consider or Avoid - plus a link straight to each listing.
Bid with confidenceThe scored spreadsheet gives you everything you need to work the sale: our verdict on each car, the full vehicle detail, its AutoTrader Retail Rating and a link to the listing.
| Verdict | Reg | Make | Model | Derivative | Year | Mileage | Retail Rating | Fuel | Trans | Listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strong Buy | AB12 CDE | Volkswagen | Golf | 1.5 TSI Life 5dr | 2021 | 41,200 | 92 | Petrol | Manual | View |
| Strong Buy | FG34 HIJ | Kia | Sportage | 1.6 GDi 2 5dr | 2022 | 33,850 | 89 | Petrol | Manual | View |
| Consider | KL56 MNO | BMW | 3 Series | 320d M Sport 4dr | 2019 | 68,400 | 71 | Diesel | Auto | View |
| Consider | UV90 WXY | Nissan | Qashqai | 1.3 DiG-T Acenta | 2020 | 55,700 | 67 | Petrol | Manual | View |
| Avoid | PQ78 RST | Vauxhall | Insignia | 2.0 CDTi SRi 5dr | 2017 | 94,100 | 43 | Diesel | Manual | View |
A good used car typically makes an independent dealer somewhere between £700 and £1,200 in margin. Find one strong retailer a month that you'd have missed in an unchecked catalogue, and the tool has paid for itself several times over.
Margins vary by stock and site. The £700 to £1,200 range is a typical figure for a good used car, not a promise of results.
Run your real catalogues through it for a month. If it isn't finding you cars and saving you hours, walk away and pay nothing.
After the trial it's £250/month. Cancel any time.
Dealers are already running every sale through it. Your first 30 days are free, so the only thing you're risking is finding out how many good cars you've been missing.
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