📰 Magazines & Publications

Since 1950, pioneered real-world testing

Weekly, best-selling in France

Since 1946, 1.2M monthly readers

Weekly motorsport focus

Electric and hybrid focus

Web arm of M6's "Turbo" — France's flagship TV auto magazine (since 1988, ~1.2M weekly viewers, most-watched auto magazine on French TV) — news, essais, comparatifs + practical buying/maintenance/insurance advice; ~1.9-2.6M monthly visits, top-900 FR site (Semrush Jun 2026); turbo.fr 200 OK — added 2026-09-07 (Sep 6 coverage-gap note)

Global automotive news network

Global car news and reviews

Industry analysis, technology, supply chain; monthly digital magazine

Daily automotive industry news portal, sales data, supply chain, global coverage

Global automotive news, photos, videos; industry economics, motorsport, classics

European used car market analysis, residual values, market reports, forecasts

Germany's B2B automotive newspaper, industry news, tech, dealers, suppliers (Crain Communications)

Heritage

Performance

Customization

Certified used — BMW's official approved-used programme (360° check, 24-month warranty, dealer stock search at gebrauchtwagen.bmw.de); the OEM benchmark for dealer asking prices of young BMWs (added 2026-09-25)

Heritage

Performance

Luxury

Certified used — official approved-used programme (up to 6 years / 150,000 km, Junge Sterne Check, 12 performance promises, 5-year promise on selected EVs bought Jan 2026–Apr 2027); 2 million certified cars sold (Feb 2026); programme page: mercedes-benz.de/passengercars/cars-guide/certified-used.html (added 2026-09-25)

Fan magazine — online magazine for MB enthusiasts since 2008, ~270K monthly readers, news/classic/tuning/community, hosts the annual "SCHÖNE STERNE" festival (added 2026-08-14)

Performance

Heritage

Certified used — official Audi approved-used exchange (110-point check, min. 1-year free warranty, extendable up to 3 years after the 2-year factory warranty); dealer stock across Germany. NOTE: audi.de 403s bot-UA curl (Akamai bot wall, alive) (added 2026-09-25)

Porsche's official certified pre-owned programme — minimum 24-month warranty, cars prepared by Porsche technicians with genuine parts; Porsche Finder is the official pan-European/global search of Porsche Centre stock, the OEM benchmark for dealer asking prices of young 911/Cayenne/Taycan (added 2026-09-26). NOTE: finder.porsche.com 429s bot curls (rate-limit, alive)

Ferrari's official certified pre-owned programme defined by Maranello — cars first registered no more than 14 years ago, 200+ technical checks and a test drive, mileage and history verified, factory warranty and roadside assistance up to 24 months in Europe (12 elsewhere); pan-European dealer stock search (added 2026-09-26)

Volvo Cars' official approved-used programme — 125-point inspection by Volvo-trained technicians, latest software updates, genuine parts only, minimum 12-month warranty; UK programme page linked (added 2026-09-26). NOTE: volvocars.com 403s every bot curl on both UAs (bot wall, alive)

Toyota's official approved-used programme — 145-point technical check including a Hybrid Health Check, history check, 12 months roadside assistance, warranty renewed with each qualifying dealer service up to 10 years / 100,000 miles (UK terms); first Toyota resource beyond clubs (added 2026-09-26)

Volkswagen's official German certified used-car label since Sep 2023 (successor to Das WeltAuto in Germany per autohaus.de; the Das WeltAuto name continues in Austria and Spain, dasweltauto.es) — dealer inspection, used-car warranty, exchange right (added 2026-09-26)

Stellantis group's multi-brand approved-used label (Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Abarth, Peugeot, Citroën, Opel, Jeep) — cars selected, inspected and prepared to one standard, warranty up to 24 months with unlimited mileage (Premium 24/12, Advanced 8, Essential 6 months); in France 1,200+ points of sale and ~75,000 listings — the reference label for used Alfa Romeo dealer stock (added 2026-09-26). NOTE: spoticar.fr/.it 403 bot curls on both UAs (bot wall, alive)

Listings

Valuation

US pricing

Valuation

Listings & Pricing

Valuation

Valuation & Vehicle Data

Monthly retail price index built on Autotrader's own marketplace data and covering the whole UK market (URL corrected 2026-09-22 from the consumer site to the plc data hub, where the index actually lives): Apr 2026 edition — average used-car retail price £17,397, +1.8% month-on-month like-for-like (strongest monthly rise since Nov 2021) and flat year-on-year, 27 days to sell, transactions +3% YoY; used EVs £23,555 (+3% MoM) with demand +59% YoY, more than one in ten transactions and stock turn down to 28 days (from 31 in Apr 2025); 10-15-year-old cars the strongest age band at +8.4% YoY

Global market data

Classic car market trends and predictions

Quarterly German used-car market analysis (listings, prices, demand/supply); Q2 2026: avg listing price €27,231 in June (-1.9% YoY), used-EV demand/supply ratio +93-128% YoY reaching parity with ICE for the first time, independent dealers (38%) overtook brand dealers (36%) in market share — added 2026-08-23

Monthly French used-car market barometer (NGC Data-based registrations, prices, age/fuel mix; relayed by Auto Infos/AM Today); H1 2026: -4.1% YoY at 2.63M registrations, ~30% of May sales 16+ years old, electrified ~1 in 5 — the FR analog of the DE Marktreport — added 2026-09-03

Monthly Italian market observatory from Quattroruote's B2B arm (Editoriale Domus): superindice of used-car quotations (H1 2026: -1.34%, slowing vs -2.39% prior semester), monthly PDF reports — THE Italian trade quotation reference — added 2026-09-03

Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt, Germany's federal motor-transport authority — monthly official used-car ownership-transfer statistics (FZ 9 series: by brand, fuel type, vehicle age, federal state, holder group; free XLSX downloads mid-month for the prior month); THE primary source for German used-car volumes (Mar 2026: 605,378 car transfers, +9.1% YoY; Jul 2026: 577,139) — added 2026-09-19 (200 OK)

Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders — quarterly official UK used-car transaction statistics (DVLA-based, by fuel type, segment, region and best-sellers); Q2 2026: 2,009,318 transactions (+0.7% YoY, first Q2 above 2M since 2021), used BEV +67.0% to 110,761 (record 5.5% share), H1 2026 4,025,550 (+0.2%) — the UK counterpart of KBA FZ 9 — added 2026-09-19 (200 OK)

Federal statistics office of Austria — monthly official used-car registration statistics (by federal state, fuel type and vehicle type, sourced from daily VVO insurer reports; ODS tables and STATcube); 2025: 825,477 used cars (+0.6%), used EVs 34,700 (+20.9%, 4.2% share); H1 2026 down YoY per the Jul 14 2026 release — the Austrian counterpart of KBA FZ 9 — added 2026-10-01 (200 OK)

Belgian vehicle-industry federation (with TRAXIO and RENTA under the Mobia banner) — official Belgian registration statistics incl. monthly used-car registrations by type (A08O) and by brand, model, fuel and first-registration year (A09O), plus regional new/used series since 1991; H1 2026 used-car registrations -3.6% YoY, 61% of all registrations, 91.1% bought by private buyers — the Belgian counterpart of KBA FZ 9 — added 2026-10-02 (200 OK)

FINN.no (Vend, the Schibsted marketplace group; Norway's largest classifieds site) — free monthly motor reports on the Norwegian used-car market: top-10 models, time-to-sell and price development on FINN, with Nordic comparisons against sister marketplaces Blocket (SE) and Bilbasen (DK); Jan-Aug 2026 reports online — Nordic price context outside the five site languages — added 2026-10-03 (200 OK)

Unione Nazionale Rappresentanti Autoveicoli Esteri — monthly Italian used-car ownership-transfer press releases (passaggi di proprietà by fuel, age, brand and region); H1 2026: 2,872,228 transfers (+1.4%), Jun 448,071 (+3.7%), nearly half of transfers concern 10+ year-old cars — Italy's registration-volume counterpart to the Quattroruote quotation observatory — added 2026-09-19 (200 OK)

France's registration-data provider (SIV-based) — 1st-of-month press releases on new (VPN) and used (VO) car registrations by brand, fuel and region, monthly "Intelligence Auto" briefs; Apr 2026: 426,620 VO transactions (-11%), Jun 2026 new-EV record near 30% share — the primary French registration source behind most VO market coverage — added 2026-09-19 (200 OK)

Annual German roadworthiness-inspection (HU) defect statistics published by the TÜV-Verband with AUTO BILD — 2026 edition: 9.5M inspections, 216 models ranked by age band, 18 EVs listed separately for the first time (Mazda 2 best at 2.9% significant-defect rate for 2-3 year cars, Tesla Model Y worst at 17.3%; 21.5% of all cars with significant defects); the reliability reference buyers cross-read with used-car prices — DEKRA discontinued its rival Gebrauchtwagenreport (pre-repair programs distorted the data) — added 2026-09-19 (https bot-curls time out behind the association's firewall, http 301 answers, DNS healthy on www + apex — alive)

French counterpart of the TÜV-Report, published by UTAC-OTC (the Organisme Technique Central that supervises contrôle technique): 2025 results for the 1,083 most-inspected passenger-car families (200+ inspections each, 96% of all periodic inspections), with counter-visit rate by age and mileage band and non-conformity rates across 9 themes and 38 sub-themes; filter by family, not by make alone. 2025 overall: 27.6M inspections, 19.3% counter-visit rate, average inspected car 13.3 years old

Dirección General de Tráfico, Spain's traffic authority — open statistics portal (replaced the old portal estadístico on 1 Jul 2024) with monthly microdata files for vehicle registrations, ownership transfers (transferencias) and the vehicle fleet (parque), plus daily registration files (MATRABA); the primary source behind GANVAM's and Ideauto's monthly VO figures (Aug 2026: 155,532 used cars +6.1% per GANVAM, 176,862 transfers per Ideauto/coches.net; 1.5 used per new car sold) — added 2026-09-20 (200 OK)

Spanish association of ITV inspection-station operators — annual inspection data with Mintur (2025: 81% of inspected vehicles passed, 3 in 10 vehicles due for ITV skipped it, average fleet age 15.2 years; lighting 23%, emissions 22%, tyres/suspension 20% and brakes 11.4% of defects found). National aggregates only, not per model

Automobile Club d'Italia — official open data from the Pubblico Registro Automobilistico (PRA): national/regional series on fleet, first registrations, ownership transfers (passaggi di proprietà) and radiazioni, level-5 linked open data (lod.aci.it, CC-BY 4.0), monthly Auto-Trend PDF, annual Annuario Statistico (May) and Autoritratto (July); Jun 2026: 263,311 car transfers (+5.2%), 20-29-year-old cars 17.2% of Feb 2026 transfers — the registry source UNRAE's releases are derived from — added 2026-09-20 (200 OK)

UK Department for Transport quarterly official statistics built on DVLA records — VEH01xx CSV/ODS tables on licensed stock, new registrations, fuel type, keepership (private/company) and age; Q1 2026: 42.4M licensed vehicles (+1.3%), 2,148,000 zero-emission (5.1% share, +29.6% YoY); keeper-change (used-transaction) counts are not in the release — SMMT publishes those — added 2026-09-20 (200 OK)

European Commission Joint Research Centre report (JRC140203, 2025) — the reference pan-European analysis of used-car stock, age structure and cross-border trade (Eurostat-based intra-EU and extra-EU flows of used passenger cars and LCVs by member state); fills the used-car trade-flow gap that ACEA's new-car/fleet statistics leave — added 2026-09-25 (200 OK, PDF 200)

OECD International Transport Forum dashboard and open database of international used passenger car trade (built for the ITF "New but Used" EV-transition report): Sankey view of export flows from origin to destination, value trend (total and average value per vehicle) and quantity trend by country, drawn from government trade statistics and national ministries — complements the JRC review with the global exports picture. NOTE: Cloudflare challenge (403) on both UAs and WebFetch — added Sep 28 2026

European Automobile Manufacturers' Association — EU-level official statistics: monthly new-registration press releases (H1 2026: +5.7%, BEV 20.7% share), the annual "Vehicles on European Roads" fleet report (Jan 2026 edition: 256M cars on EU roads in 2024, +1.4%; electrically-chargeable cars 3.7% of the fleet; Italy highest cars per capita) and a public press-release calendar; the only pan-EU counterpart to KBA/SMMT/UNRAE/AAA Data — new-car and fleet focus, no used-car transaction series — added 2026-09-20 (200 OK)

Brussels umbrella body for the European leasing and automotive-rental industries — Annual Statistics (its main publication on the European leasing and automotive-rental markets), Biannual Statistics (first-half figures), the quarterly **Leaseurope Index** (business-volume and value-creation KPIs reported confidentially by a representative sample of large pan-European lessors) and the Facts & Figures brochure; the supply-side series upstream of used-car volumes, because leasing and rental fleets are what later arrive as lease returns in remarketing (Ayvens Carmarket, Autorola, OpenLane) — no member-level or country-level used-car prices, volumes only — added 2026-09-22 (200 OK)

British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association's quarterly industry report — aggregated member fleet data with funder and broker commentary: Q1 2026 lease fleet +7.2% YoY to over 2.05M vehicles (cars 1,574,462, 77% of the fleet; vans 478,211), battery-electric cars 48% of the car lease fleet with members funding more than a third of all EVs on UK roads; the Jan 2026 edition put 64% of members on expecting used-EV prices to fall further in 2026 against 77% expecting stable or improving combustion residuals, and recorded a 36% deterioration in future-margin confidence — the UK lease-return pipeline and the sector's own residual-value sentiment, complementing the SMMT transaction counts — added 2026-09-22 (200 OK)

Association of the German credit banks — **renamed from Bankenfachverband on 13 Jul 2026**, new web presence 3 Aug 2026 (bfach.de and ssl.bfach.de now 301 to kreditbankenverband.de): publishes the annual "Finanzierung … im Überblick" brochure (German and English editions), a Jahresbericht and the Ipsos-run "Konsum- und Kfz-Finanzierung" market study — how German cars are actually paid for, which sets the monthly-payment ceiling buyers price against: 2025 consumer-financing new business €59.9bn (+2% YoY) covering roughly 1.2M vehicles financed by credit, used cars 28% of credit volume against 29% for new cars; Q1 2026 new business +3.9% to €21.5bn, credit growing while leasing shrank — added 2026-09-22 (200 OK)