Unleash your Car Cost Expert potential
Get top tips on using Car Cost Expert to see how you can unlock the full total cost of ownership for your vehicles.
Optimise your vehicles’ total cost of ownership
In an increasingly volatile, competitive automotive market, a detailed insight into the TCO of your vehicles is more important than ever. Even marginally improving your TCO can help you gain an edge over your rivals.
Car Cost Expert’s accurate TCO data enables you to calculate total cost of ownership (TCO) for 600 model ranges in 300 different mileage combinations across 12 countries.
Use our data to make more informed TCO decisions – log in now.
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How to use Car Cost Expert as a Manufacturer
Car Cost Expert is the definitive TCO simulator, allowing you to find your ideal equipment, package and service combination so you can beat your rivals and sell more cars.
Car Cost Expert enables you to:
- Include TCO in product development strategies
- Optimise pricing and specification strategies for improved TCO performance
- Enrich your communication strategies by leading with your TCO angle
- Prove the TCO advantage of your models
- Equip your sales team with powerful unique selling points
- Benchmark and optimise parts prices and service intervals
- Analyse each TCO component to identify where competing vehicles are more or less competitive
How to use Car Cost Expert as a Fleet & Leasing company
Car Cost Expert helps you understand the holding costs better and to identify the best time to remarket a vehicle or extend contracts to ensure more profitable de-fleeting.
Use Car Cost Expert to
- Support vehicle purchasing decisions
- Simulate own parameters
- Review workshops costs
- Support clients in finding the best matching vehicles
- Reduce overall costs and optimise your car park
How do I get started with Car Cost Expert?
Car Cost Expert offers all the TCO data you need on one easy-to-use platform. Our highly intuitive and visual user interface helps you get a clearer picture of the marketplace.
With Car Cost Expert you can:
- Plug your own values in and get the information you need
- Export reports in Excel and PDF for your own use
- Easily interpret your TCO breakdown
- Factor equipment and maintenance into your total cost of ownership
FAQs
Our data is updated monthly. We offer an independent analysis that you can trust to provide accurate results.
Every time you use the custom filters, the application will save your selection. They’ll be available to you whenever you log in, so you don’t have to keep starting over from scratch.
Car Cost Expert covers the TCO data for a total of 600 model ranges in 300 different mileage combinations across 12 countries – giving you a clearer picture of the marketplace.
Car Cost Expert includes the following markets:
Germany, Spain, France, Italy, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Czechia, and Romania.
With Car Cost Expert you can switch from trade to retail views in one click. Choose your specification from a dropdown and you can easily cross-compare highlighted values at a glance.
Yes, it is. Car Cost Expert offers an extensive set of filters that helps you to drill down on the exact information you need.
You can for example set a new price for brake discs and fuel filters, change the tire dimensions/tyre specifications, improve / change the insurance classification or reduce fuel consumption. Car Cost Expert will then automatically generate your new TCO.
Yes, it is. You can easily export your results in Excel and PDF and use these data-driven insights in your client communications.
Yes, that is possible. It is easy to plug in your own values into Car Cost Expert. You can for example insert labour and interest rates or consumption figures to see how they might affect tax rates and discounts. This will help you reduce costs or decide on potential discounts.
Car Cost Expert features an extensive set of filters which allow for a greater accuracy of your search results. Our more than 20 filters can help you zero in on the exact make and model you / your clients are looking for. You can search by market, Carbon Dioxide consumption, make and model and much more. You can even factor in a certain budget.
Car Cost Expert is just one of a suite of products, data feeds and APIs from Autovista that help at every stage of the automotive value chain.
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Car Cost Expert is just one of a suite of products, data feeds and APIs from Autovista that help at every stage of the automotive value chain.
To monitor, analyse and benchmark competitors’ performance against yours, Residual Value Monitor might be the right tool for you. Residual Value Monitor is designed by experts to offer easy access to a full range of residual value data analysis capabilities. Residual Value Monitor helps you to
- Anticipate residual value curveballs to manage risks and protect your margins,
- Understand the cause and effect of residual value changes across Europe
- Improve your competitive residual value position to sell or lease vehicles more profitably
Car Cost Expert is just one of a suite of products, data feeds and APIs from Autovista that help at every stage of the automotive value chain.
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