One search for the cars at your local dealers

allrides started with a search that should have been easy: one specific car, in one specific color, somewhere near Austin.

Try it. You check a dealer's website, then another. You try the big listing sites, and each one shows some dealers and not others. Twenty tabs later you have found a few, and you still can't say with confidence that you have seen every one for sale in the area. The right car could be on a lot ten minutes away and you would never know.

There was no one place to look. So we built it.

allrides works like a search engine, not a marketplace. Every day we index the inventory of every dealer in the Austin area that we can: over 250 dealerships. You search once, on one site, and see what they have.

We can index a dealer when it publishes its cars and prices on its own website and allows them to be read. The goal is simple: if a local dealer has it online, you can find it here.

We index those dealers again each day. Price changes show up, new arrivals appear and sold cars drop off, so you are looking at today's inventory at today's prices.

We also leave out the listings that waste your time. A car with no price, a "call for price" or no valid photo is not shown, and the logos, banners and placeholder images that clutter a dealer's photos are removed. What is left is real cars with real prices that you can actually look at.

Finding the car is half of it. On some listing sites the dealer's name, phone number and website are hidden, and to reach the dealer you fill in a form with your own contact details. Then the calls and emails start.

On allrides every car shows who is selling it, with the dealer's phone number, address and a link to their website. You contact the dealer yourself, when you want to. There is no form, no account and nothing in between.

We are not trying to keep you here. Our job is to get you to the right car at the right dealer as quickly as we can, and then get out of the way.

Shoppers get a straight line to the dealer. Dealers get people who already know which car they came for. Nobody stands in the middle.

We started with cars in Austin, Texas. The name is allrides for a reason: people buy more than cars from local dealers. Motorcycles, ATVs, boats and RVs are next, so that anything a local dealer sells can be found with one search.

Because we index the market every day, we can measure it. Our price reports show what cars are listed for across the Austin area. A new edition is published each month, and the figures are free to use with a link.

For data, a custom cut or a press question, email contact@allrides.com. If you are a dealer and want to be listed or removed, see allrides for dealers.