Car & Classic is a comprehensive online platform dedicated to the buying and selling of classic cars and motorbikes. With a database featuring over 30,000 private and trade adverts, the company serves as a marketplace for enthusiasts, collectors, and casual buyers looking to find their dream classic vehicles. Users can browse a wide range of makes and models, including popular brands such as Mercedes, Porsche, and Jaguar, making it a go-to resource for classic car aficionados.
In addition to facilitating sales, Car & Classic offers tools for users to assess the value of their classic vehicles with free valuation services. The platform is designed for both private individuals and businesses, providing a user-friendly experience for those interested in classic automobiles. With its extensive listings and valuable resources, Car & Classic aims to connect buyers and sellers in the classic car community effectively.
Car & Classic receives overwhelmingly positive feedback for its efficient auction process and high-quality service. Many customers highlight the ease of selling classic vehicles, with several noting successful sales within days and excellent photography that enhances listings.
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Reviewers appreciate the clear communication throughout the auction process and the professionalism of the staff, which contributes to a trustworthy experience. However, some buyers express concerns about discrepancies between vehicle descriptions and actual conditions, with one reviewer reporting issues that required legal intervention. Despite these complaints, the majority of users find Car & Classic to be a reliable platform for buying and selling classic cars. Overall, the sentiment is largely positive, reflecting a strong reputation in the classic vehicle community.
1,000 customer reviewsLatest review over a year ago
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Reputation trend
Monthly average rating from reviews written by people · latest review Jul 2025.
Last 3 months
4.6
12-month avg
4.5
All-time
4.5
Category avg
4.2
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Monthly average rating and review count
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Aug 24
4.4
58
Sep 24
4.4
41
Oct 24
4.6
39
Nov 24
4.3
39
Dec 24
4.5
26
Jan 25
4.1
28
Feb 25
4.8
41
Mar 25
4.6
56
Apr 25
4.4
63
May 25
4.6
83
Jun 25
4.5
74
Jul 25
4.6
53
What people praise & complain about
Share of positive (4–5★) and negative (1–2★) reviews mentioning each topic · based on the 500 most recent reviews.
Top praiseof 443 positive reviews
Easy to use29%
129 mentions
Customer service23%
104 mentions
Website & app17%
74 mentions
Fast & efficient15%
65 mentions
“As a first time seller, they gave good advice and made selling my bike very easy”
On “Easy to use” · Jul 12, 2025
Top complaintsof 43 negative reviews
Payment issues33%
14 mentions
Pricing19%
8 mentions
Response time16%
7 mentions
Account issues14%
6 mentions
“I put my classic low mileage mint condition Porsche Cayman up for auction having paid for the photographer to visit a...”
On “Payment issues” · Jul 1, 2025
How it compares
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They should not rely on the opinion of the seller. The description of the car was faulse and Cars and Classic take no responsability for that. It means that they try to sell any piece of rubbish witho... See more
I put my classic low mileage mint condition Porsche Cayman up for auction having paid for the photographer to visit and do his bit. I received a bid I was happy with and a few days later two Irish gen... See more
I was the proud winner of a red E36, advertised as a 325i with 192 hp, and I had won the car for 17.000 euros. The day after, I immediately raised my concerns about multiple discrepancies that were NO... See more
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They should not rely on the opinion of the seller. The description of the car was faulse and Cars and Classic take no responsability for that. It means that they try to sell any piece of rubbish without any checking procedure.
When it came to the conflict with the seller of the car - you can expect no help from their side. I will strongly discourage to use this page and auction site.
Be careful using this page!
I put my classic low mileage mint condition Porsche Cayman up for auction having paid for the photographer to visit and do his bit. I received a bid I was happy with and a few days later two Irish gentlemen turned up I assumed to collect the car.
They took the car for a drive and promptly returned it and said they didn't want it. As this was my first experience of this I was took back but said o ok and they left. However, then while returning my car to its usual position it sounded like a bag of nails !! Short story is that they had broken one of the CATS and ran. I received no compensation and spent another £2K putting it right.
After discussing this with the firm they agreed to do something about the fees if i were to put it back on, which I did. I received another bid although £2k less than the first I took it, expecting the reduced fees to go someway to make up the shortfall. Well the car finally got pick up without any trouble but full fees where taken, with the company saying o no we meant if you put another vehicle up with us we would look to give you a discount !!! Fuming !!!
Aslo the winning bidders come to basically view the car again an dthen decide if they want it, it was my understadning that any viewings or questions were supposed to be done prior to putting a bid in certainly a winning one !
Its obvious this isn't made clear enough to winning bidders that they are purely meant to be picking the vehicle up, not viewing with other intentions.
SO they earned £1600 out of me £800 out of the final winning bidder, and I'm £2k down on the sale priced and £2k down on the repairs. NOT GREAT WON'T BE USING THEM AGAIN ! AVOID IF I WERE YOU.
I was the proud winner of a red E36, advertised as a 325i with 192 hp, and I had won the car for 17.000 euros. The day after, I immediately raised my concerns about multiple discrepancies that were NOT mentioned in the description, including:
-the car originally being a 316i so NOT a matching numbers car
-a crash reported on a CARFAX report
-administrative issues with the spanish government
-AND all the documents regarding the mods were CLEARLY stating that the engine used had come from a 323i so a 170hp engine, not 192hp as advertised by them.
The ONLY response that I got for a week straight was "uuuuh idk pay 17k here's where you should send it".
The owner of the car was 100 times more helpful and understanding than all of their useless support team. After days of emails, they made one of their useless lawyers reach out to me, and he stated :
"Regarding the engine, or rather that this car started life as a 316i and has been modified to a 325i; we never, throughout the entire listing, made any reference to this being a 'matching-numbers' car, or that the engine was original to the car from the factory."
and:
"You write in your email, and submitted to us a CARFAX report stating, that the car was involved in a frontal collision. Whilst this may or may not be so, this car was advertised as being highly modified, from front to back. It is fair to say that there is more on this car that is not from the factory than actually is."
So this means, that if you are buying a car from one of their auctions and in the description it's not clearly stated that it's a matching numbers car, you are 100% getting a POS useless car that has no actual value and that also has been crashed.
After this, I never got a response back from them. A few days later I got relieved from the auction, they didn't refund the auction Fee (700 euros) as they probably felt that they did a perfect and honest job, and FUNNILY ENOUGH, THEY RELISTED THE CAR UP FOR AUCTION, AND ADDED EVERY SINGLE THING THAT I COMPLAINED ABOUT IN THE DESCRIPTION, PROVING ME RIGHT!!!! Now I'm banned from the website, cannot access my account and they will not respond and own to their responsibilites even if I send them emails from other adresses.
Bare in mind that they proudly state, THAT THEY CHECK EVERY SINGLE CAR BEFORE LISTING IT, but I guess they only look at a few pictures so they can get their commission fee ;)
NEVER, EVER, BUY A CAR IF THESE GUYS ARE THE MIDDLE MAN. SHAMELESS COMPANY THAT PREFERS TO DESTROY ITS REPUTATION RATHER THAN OWNING UP TO THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES
P.S after their response: BE ASHAMED, YOU LOST A CUSTOMER FOR SPARE CHANGE AND YOU WILL LOOSE A LOT MORE. YOU CHANGED THE DESCRIPTION AFTER MY COMPLAINTS, PROVING ME RIGHT AND YOU STILL DID NOT OWN UP TO YOUR MISTAKE,AND THAT SAYS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOUR CLOWN A** COMPANY. AND STOP SAYING THAT YOU PROVIDED ”QuiCk ReSPonSeS aNd cOmMuniCaTiOn”, YOU STOPPED ANSWERING TO MULTIPLE EMAILS AND BANNED ME FROM THE WEBSITE! I GOT RECEIPTS AND PROOF OF EVERY SINGLE THING!
I WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUGGEST TO EVERYONE, TO NEVER SPEND A SINGLE DIME ON THIS PLATFORM. THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT THEIR COMMISSIONS AND THAT IS IT. Whack a** PR response, be ashamed once again.
Very poor communication, the most expensive way you could possibly sell and with no greater reward or reason to do so. Charged £500 to list the three (apparently the bill for the 2 1/2 hours photography session on the three) and then you have to pay either £600+ VAT or 6% of the final value fee, whichever is higher of course!
Faults with their system with me being notified about bids that were actually non existent (due to being retracted) but no note of it until the auction finished. Car finished at £5100 despite me being told it was £6k. Apparently the buyer did not have available funds, why was this not checked or a deposit taken from them before they were allowed to bid?!?
Asked for something to be done on the fees due to this co**-up landing me £900 down to what I was expecting but due to it breaking the reserve and "Doing me a deal on the group photography* they were interested.
Left for weeks waiting on answers from them about how post auctions sales are progressing only to be told 'It came to nothing so you can relist if you want?'.
Stuck now having spent £500 on listing the three with only one having sold for £5100 (£4380 after fees). All reserves were agreed to be fair and achievable but interestingly in the last 24 hours I got calls on all three asking to lower the reserves which will definitely help get more bids, none of which got an extra bid.
Ultimately, for what they charge, its most definitely not good value for money and I could not recommend. After all this hassle I wish id just spent £60 on three Ebay classified ad's!
Beware of scammers using CarandClassic. I have been advised by CarandClassic of a scam being operated by people using names such as Keith Miller, Stephen Woods, Gareth Phillips and Chris Byrne.
I saw a Land Rover Series 2 and enquired about it. The person calling himself Keith Miller got back to me but when I asked for a link to the listing he was unwilling to steer me in the right direction. He instead sent me, unsolicited, a passport photo of him and when I agreed to buy the car he said he would send me the listing with the payment link. This seemed a bit odd but he had built a rapport with me saying this was a divorce sale and that he was working in France. I once again looked for the Land Rover on CarandClassic, could not find it. He sent me an email with a link to the listing. It was the car that he had sent me pictures of via email so this made me feel more at ease but I then opened the payment link and the name was Benjamin Olah. This rung alarm bells but I proceeded to start the payment until Revolut said not to proceed as this seemed like a scam. I stopped the payment and contacted CarandClassic immediately and was told that a scam is being operated by people using CarandClassic. Please be very very careful, if it feels odd it is a scam. Do not part with your hard earned cash to thieves. Here is the response from CarandClassic to my email.
"This person will have contacted you initially through Autotrader, eBay, Motors, GumTree or some other platform and suggested he has the vehicle you are interested in, that he will place an advert with us and you can purchase the vehicle using our Escrow facility.
When it comes to payment, the link he will send you will be to an account he has set up, not our Escrow account. He uses several names i.e. Keith Miller, Stephen Woods, Gareth Phillips and Chris Byrne are those we know of, although there may be others. He can even produce ID in these names, but please be aware they are all fraudulent.
Buyers beware
On collection the car wasn't as described. The car needs a full respray. Pics of the car were taken and sent to car & classic. Nothing has been done. This is now in the hands of my solicitors. Stay clear
Dedicated auction contact. Excellent professional photos. Efficient auction process and clear communication on steps post-auction. Release of funds after collection of vehicle very swift.
I advertised my Harley Davidson FLHRS on Car & Classic on a Sunday afternoon, and it sold for the full asking price and was ridden away the very next day! When you advertise your vehicle and describe it accurately together with a sensible price on Car & Classic it will sell!
Cannot recommend this website high enough!
5 STAR!
Free advertising, sold and purchased lots of motorcycles through car and classic. Never had a problem, if I look to buy or sell another motorcycle car and classic is my first port of call.
Sold another car via car and classic ,using them for many many years .
They always deliver serious buyers
that know what they want ,thereby saves time dealing with lots of poor enquiries
will continue to use C&C for the future
thanks Guys
Alan H
Selling a defender and ran the free CC add back to back with a paid for Autotrader add. No response from one and multiple calls from the other…. CC wins!
Messaging function with potential buyers was also great.
Bonjour, j'ai plusieurs remarques :
1 avant les enchères je n'ai pas pensé contacter l'assistance CarsandClassic.
2 après l'enchère gagnante les informations fournies sont claires et le fait de pouvoir contacter une personne dans sa propre langue est un gros plus.
3 l'assistance en français est très efficace et aimable.
4 le processus en général est bien fait.
5 seul problème la rédaction de l'annonce. En effet dans le texte il n'ai pas mentionné que la voiture fonctionne et roule normalement, ce qui est très anxiogène compte tenu des conditions générales de C&C.
From the outset Guy Beattie was a great help. Very professional and giving sound advice. The photographer was also very professional taking a significant number of photo's and video's to help advertising the car.
Within 2 hours of the buyer and me as the seller confirming change of ownership the money was in my account.
Car & Classic is a comprehensive online platform dedicated to the buying and selling of classic cars and motorbikes. With a database featuring over 30,000 private and trade adverts, the company serves as a marketplace for enthusiasts, collectors, and casual buyers looking to find their dream classic vehicles. Users can browse a wide range of makes and models, including popular brands such as Mercedes, Porsche, and Jaguar, making it a go-to resource for classic car aficionados.
In addition to facilitating sales, Car & Classic offers tools for users to assess the value of their classic vehicles with free valuation services. The platform is designed for both private individuals and businesses, providing a user-friendly experience for those interested in classic automobiles. With its extensive listings and valuable resources, Car & Classic aims to connect buyers and sellers in the classic car community effectively.
