About Motoring Today
Motoring Today exists to take the guesswork out of buying, financing and owning a car — replacing hunches and sales patter with live UK data and honest, independent advice.
We started Motoring Today because buying a used car felt stacked against the buyer. Prices you couldn’t verify, histories you couldn’t see, finance you couldn’t compare. So we built the tools we wished existed — free MOT and history checks, live market pricing, plain-English guides — and made them free for everyone.
Three values, no small print
Our ratings, reviews and rankings answer to data and readers — never to manufacturers, dealers or lenders.
We publish how we test, how we price and how we make money. If something changes, we say so — on the page, dated.
Every tool and guide has to save you time, money or stress. If it doesn't do one of those three, we don't build it.
Our team and company details
The team
Small team, big dataWe’re a compact team of data engineers, product designers and editors. We build pricing models covering the whole UK used market, aggregate owner and expert reviews, publish our methodology, and answer reader questions daily — with help from Theo, our AI assistant, grounded in our own data and published standards.
Company details
LegalMotoring Today is a trading style of Motor Genius Group Ltd (FRN 960504), an appointed representative of The Compliance Guys Ltd, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 941360). Motoring Today is a credit broker, not a lender.
How we make money
We earn a fixed fee from dealers only when a car sale completes through Motoring Today, and a fixed payment from our integrated finance partner when a finance agreement completes. We are not paid when you simply enquire, start an application or reserve a car. Using the site — searches, checks, guides, valuations — is always free for you, and these fees never influence our ratings. We never charge consumers and never sell personal data.
Our organic ranking is driven by price, distance, finance affordability and dealer rating — never by payment. A dealer can pay to promote an individual car in the default view: those listings are always clearly labelled ‘Sponsored’, are never shown first, are capped at one in twelve results and one per dealer, are excluded from price-sorted views, and can never be a car we rate as above market price.
Buying guides and pSEO pages are written and reviewed by the Motoring Today Editorial team. Read our editorial standards and the methodology behind every statistic on the site.