Market

Market intelligence for vehicle sourcing

Use normalized public prices and underpricing signals directly in inventory search results — then check them against retail asking prices from 681 classifieds portals across 39 European countries.

Better deals

500K+

Under-market listings vs Bulgarian retail comparables. Public fields include is_top_offer, top_offer_savings and top_offer_savings_pct; /api/top-offers can include market_reference. Availability depends on the field permissions granted to your key.

  • · Encar historical depth in signals
  • · OpenLane / Auto1 / Schade / Copart / eCarsTrade / KB ChaChaCha / Japanese imports mix
  • · /api/top-offers returns the market_reference behind each verdict

Searchable deal signals

GET /api/search?smart_filter=best_value

Combine best-value ranking with brand, model, year, mileage, fuel, gearbox, country, and price filters.

  • is_top_offer
  • top_offer_savings_pct
  • public_price_eur

Retail comps from 39 European countries

scope: classifieds

Classifieds

A wholesale price means little without knowing what the same car is asking for in the destination country. The 2026-08-18 classifieds snapshot contains 9.8M retail listings from 681 national portals, dealer sites and manufacturer stock pages — mobile.de, leboncoin.fr, autoscout24, lacentrale.fr, autosupermarket.it and hundreds more — so you can diff auction lots against live retail listings by country, origin portal, brand, model, year, mileage and seller type.

  • price_eur, mileage_km, year, fuel_norm, gearbox_norm
  • seller_type (dealer / private) and source_site portal
  • country_code and region on every listing
  • Ended and promoted listings excluded automatically
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://api.thecarapi.com/api/classifieds/listings?country=de,at&brand=BMW&year_from=2018&price_to=15000"
European classifieds docs

Example best-value search

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://api.thecarapi.com/api/search?smart_filter=best_value&year_from=2020&limit=24"