For "car guys" you need to allow searching by the platform code. Way more important and specific than the decade-spanning model names. For example "e30" should return '83-91 BMW 3 Series.
Love that you can specify Slushbox/Manual and exclude salvage titles.
Very annoying that middle-clicking car posting titles on the 'grid view' page does not open the cars in new tabs. I want to scan through the list and open all the ones I find interesting, then look through the details one at a time.
Clicking the site's logo (top left) should bring you back to the no-current-search homepage. Not edit the current search. Right now it feels as if you can't entirely clear the search. Clicking back to the homepage should definitely do that.
I use this site for a list of desirable year/model cars. You might get a few ideas from them: http://autoemu.com/
shoot - yeah, we were sort of undecided on how to do this. Would you prefer a full tab in the browser or a tab within the webpage to see the car details? Obviously our current bootstrap modal isn't capable of this, but once we've added some pricing statistics we're going to shift to probably one of the above formats. Thanks for the feedback!
Definitely a full/real browser tab. That's what middle-clicking does, it opens a new browser tab. Unless the site does something nonstandard. [Sidenote: Chrome extension to always enforce standard middle-clicking?]
P.S. I updated my original post with a few more suggestions.
Sounds pretty insane and hard to maintain to me. I would leave it to the buyer to know what year of car he's interested and set the date range appropriately. I feel it's too much to ask sites like this to do this behind the scenes.
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For "car guys" you need to allow searching by the platform code. Way more important and specific than the decade-spanning model names. For example "e30" should return '83-91 BMW 3 Series.
Love that you can specify Slushbox/Manual and exclude salvage titles.
Very annoying that middle-clicking car posting titles on the 'grid view' page does not open the cars in new tabs. I want to scan through the list and open all the ones I find interesting, then look through the details one at a time.
Clicking the site's logo (top left) should bring you back to the no-current-search homepage. Not edit the current search. Right now it feels as if you can't entirely clear the search. Clicking back to the homepage should definitely do that.
I use this site for a list of desirable year/model cars. You might get a few ideas from them: http://autoemu.com/
shoot - yeah, we were sort of undecided on how to do this. Would you prefer a full tab in the browser or a tab within the webpage to see the car details? Obviously our current bootstrap modal isn't capable of this, but once we've added some pricing statistics we're going to shift to probably one of the above formats. Thanks for the feedback!
Definitely a full/real browser tab. That's what middle-clicking does, it opens a new browser tab. Unless the site does something nonstandard. [Sidenote: Chrome extension to always enforce standard middle-clicking?]
P.S. I updated my original post with a few more suggestions.
I've noticed that the kind of listings for "e30 m3" versus "1989 m3" is going to end up being from a different kind of owner...
Yeah, definitely. But searching "e30" could not only do a keyword search but also compile the right cars from the right years.
Sounds pretty insane and hard to maintain to me. I would leave it to the buyer to know what year of car he's interested and set the date range appropriately. I feel it's too much to ask sites like this to do this behind the scenes.