For 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.)

We would definitely like to expand to other geos in the future, and the UK would probably be top of the list. Before that though, we have a number of improvements we want to make to the current site. (In particular, we’ve got some new filters to add, and our model matching isn’t as good as we’d like it to be yet.)

In the meantime, you could try using our other site, www.searchtempest.com. It will let you search craigslist and eBay worldwide. (Although it does use a google custom search rather than direct links to search craigslist outside North America, so it won’t always catch everything.)

This is not a bad idea! It could end up being more difficult than it’s worth, but we’ll look into it.

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!

You can search all brands at the same time, with a limit to the price, transmission type, and/or bodystyle(s). Do you mean do all that while restricting to multiple, but not all, brands?

That’s a good idea. I especially like the idea of flagging wrong transmission type or other wrong info, either for us to review, or maybe to filter automatically somehow (without allowing for abuse). We’ve got a few other things on the go for now, but will definitely keep this in mind.

We’d love to work with carsforsale. Pleas consider reaching out to them to suggest it as well.!

Agreed. We will be adding the drive type (2wd, 4×4 etc.) soon. The others are a bit trickier as our sources don’t currently provide that information, but we do support advanced keywords, so you could search for something like

“extended cab” OR “crew cab”

using the keywords field, for instance.

We do collect vehicle mileage from all our sources, and I believe it’s displayed for the vast majority of vehicles. We’re a search engine that searches listings on many different sites, so we don’t directly control what information sellers provide. Could you provide some examples of vehicles that don’t have mileage listed so we can look into them?

So, technically I think the model name is “V70 R” with a space? R is the trim level, and V70 the main model. However, it does appear some sellers do list it without the space too. Some also do weird things like write it as V70 2.5T R and such.

I’d suggest choosing V70 as the model, and explicitly searching both possibilities by entering this in the trim field:

R | V70R

We’ll look into whether we can improve the situation for these kinds of ambiguous trim/models on our end too.

This is definitely something that’s on our radar; we have some other priorities that are higher, since bookmarks or something like Keep does work for this, but we agree that a feature like you describe here would be helpful!

I see what you mean. Unfortunately since we don’t get that data from our sources, I think the only way we could do it would be something similar to what you’re doing—we’d need to keep a list of all the small vs large truck models. Might look into it at some point if this idea is popular.

Since all Bring a Trailer listings are auctions, they don’t have fixed prices. And we don’t get an updated feed of the current bids, so can’t filter out those that are above your price without filtering them all out. For now we’ve decided to err on the side of showing them.

That said, if you want to you can turn off the whole Bring a trailer source in the choose sources menu at the top of the results page.

Regarding why you’re not getting other results, please reply to this notification email and let us know what you’re searching for exactly and where, so we can check it out.

We’re going to either get these added, or possibly simplify the Lexus list down to just the main models (IS, LS, etc.), and you can then use the trim field to search the specific one you’re interested in. (In fact, that works already. You can choose Lexus and LS (all), then enter 500 or 500h as the trim.)

We’re actually planning to add a filter very soon that will let you restrict results to only within your state, so hopefully that will help. A fully customized selector, potentially with a map, would be much more involved, and may not be worth the time or interface complexity compared to other things we could do—but we will consider it. Will leave this under review for now.

Would love to do this. If you’d like to see BAT results on AutoTempest, please reach out to them and let them know.