AutoTempest
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Send notifications when a new listing is found for my search
One of our most requested features has been to send a notification when we find a new listing for particular searches. We're constantly thinking about ways that we can make this a reality. Vote for this idea if you want to see it happen sooner rather than later!
168 votesWow, it’s been a while, hasn’t it! It hasn’t been mothballed, but it has been back-burnered in favor of a couple more pressing things. We’re working right now to improve keyword searches—we’ve already added support for positive and negative quoted phrases, and are planning to add full AND/OR logical searches soon. After that should be better classification of models and potentially trims, and THEN this is the next major feature planned after that.
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Filter by Drivetrain
Please add a function to select drivetrain ie. AWD, fwd, 4WD, 4x4, etc.
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Add a tool for searching enthusiast forums
We know that some of the best listings on the web are found in enthusiast forums. Because there are so many of them out there, it would be infeasible to add them all as separate sources to the main AutoTempest search, at least at the moment. We're planning on building a separate search tool to search specifically for ads on enthusiast forums. If you'd like to see this feature added sooner rather than later, vote for it!
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Add ability to search multiple models
Currently, you can only search one model at a time on AutoTempest. We will eventually be adding the ability to search multiple models in one search.
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Autotempest mobile app
Make Autotempest into a mobile app.
8 votesFor now we’re going to focus on the web app, as we feel our time is best spent adding features there. If you’re interested in a mobile app specifically though, please comment with the specific features you’re looking for that the web app doesn’t offer. (Please note that you can add a shortcut on your homescreen to open the current web app like you would open an app.)
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Sort by savings on a car / pricing tool
sort by amount of savings. compare listing price with the national average price and display percentage saved by purchasing a given car. this way people looking for the best deal and not necessarily a particular car, could quickly sort through adds.
8 votesThis is not a bad idea! It could end up being more difficult than it’s worth, but we’ll look into it.
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EV Filter
In Advance Search, please add option to choose engine type. For example:
gas, diesel, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, electric, etc, etc..I am looking for pure EV's but there's no way to find them using your search. For example, If I want to find the cheapest EV in the country. I have to search for each individual make & model that i can think of and it takes forever!
6 votesDefinitely hoping to do this soon! Once we’re finished some current work, we just need to look into what information we get from our sources to see how difficult it will be. Absolutely agree that it would be useful though!
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5 votes
Since we have partnerships with most of our sources now, this may be possible. Changing to under review.
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Add title status to filter options. Seeing salvage/rebuild/branded titles clogs up the results. It renders the site unusable for my needs.
With all the recent floods, there are TONS of vehicles popping up everywhere that have titles one can't finance a vehicle with.
Please add this so more people can use this site. To me, this makes the site useless for used vehicle searches.
4 votesI’ll look into what sort of title info our sources provide to us, to see if this is possible.
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Save individual results
It would be great to save interested cars in a workbook to compare and download.
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UK website
Please can you expand to the UK?
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Engine cylinders
Filter for number of engine cylinders
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Add AND / OR Operators
have and/or search function
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Allow city, state instead of just zip codes
Please code the basic search line to allow city, state instead of just zip codes. I am looking at buying a used car outside the rust belt and I keep having to a zip code search first.
1 voteThis is something we’re planning to do eventually. Only reason we haven’t done it yet is some other priorities we’re working on first.
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I'd Like to see a search by VIN feature where the results are all similar vehicles of the same year or a range of years.
Enter the VIN number in order to populate vehicles that are the same make model (trim and year can be set on a spectrum).
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Hi Jim,
Since we currently search multiple sources, we aren’t able to make one big RSS feeds containing all the results. You can get RSS feeds for the craigslist results only by clicking “Feeds for this search” in the top right of the SearchTempest window that’s opened when you click the craigslist source on AutoTempest. We are looking at various ways we can notify users when a new ad that matches their search is posted :)
Hope this helps!
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Add Carsforsale.com to the searched websites list
Carsforsale.com is a strong website for classic car enthusiasts and could draw in more usage of autotempest if you put it in. Love your website guys' website! Thanks!
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Trims need to be included along with drivetrain in the search tool.
Search for a vehicle by trim & drivetrain
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Please add these funtions to the Advanced Search.
Need Improvement: On the advanced search to allow you to select the following: Exterior color, Interior color, How many cylinders, different types of styles for a car (ex. coupe and sedan but not wagon, etc), fuel economy (range of mpg), and how many doors.
1 voteWe’re definitely planning to add as many of these as possible. The ability to select multiple bodystyles is a good idea as well; will look into that.
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Electric Only / No Gas, No Hybrid, No PHEV.
How about a separate search for Fully Electric Vehicles Only!
1 voteAbsolutely! We’re planning to add this along with hopefully some other filters soon.
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