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December 10, 2021

Fast and furious: the future for used car startups in Europe

A global chip crunch, Covid-19, millennials and cheaper offers have turned online secondhand dealers into unicorns 


Éanna Kelly

8 min read

Photo by Samuele Errico Piccarini on Unsplash

Online secondhand car sellers in Europe hit fever pitch this year. We’ve seen the giddy rise of a new breed of digital car dealers like Cinch, Cazoo, Auto1 and Motorway, which let you purchase, part-exchange and finance used cars entirely online. 

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Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly is a contributing editor at Sifted, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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