Car & Classic: Cars & Auctions
58
Quality Score
Solid
Car & Classic: Cars & Auctions
by Car and Classic Limited
Low confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Car & Classic: Cars & Auctions is an iOS app from Car and Classic Limited in the Shopping category, currently rated 4.9★ across 85 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 58: Solid (established niche player). For a Shopping app, that means established niche player. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$644
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$564 – $2032
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$522 – $4700
per month
INDIE tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
5 snapshots on record
Rating
4.9
Reviews
85 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$644
Snapshots tracked
5
since Mar 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$140K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $105K – $190K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 📦 Asset bundle (170 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
| ⚙ 3.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$23K |
Total estimate
$140K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| 📅 3.9y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 60%
Also possible
React Native
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦 App bundle size | 170 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Shopping |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Slowing
25%
Last shipped 2026-07-31 · 60 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅 60 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
| 👥 Small user base (85 ratings) + 3.9y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
Slowing
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$644/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, low defensibility moat
6 months
$549 – $1.3K
12 months
$564 – $2.0K
24 months
$522 – $4.7K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 38/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
2.8
Product Quality
3.9
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.0
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $257 - $1612/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.86★ across 85 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $11K-$20K.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (85 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v2.22.1
This update includes some exciting new features to enhance your experience as well as the latest improvements and bug fixes to ensure a smoother, faster experience.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Car & Classic: Cars & Auctions
- Developer
- Car and Classic Limited
- Bundle ID
- com.carandclassic.carandclassic
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, ES, SV
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $645/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Shopping
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter4 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline4 releases tracked
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
**Buy, sell and bid on classic cars, used cars and modern classics; all in one place.**
Car & Classic is Europe's largest marketplace for car enthusiasts, offering thousands of cars for sale, daily car auctions, and a trusted platform to buy cars, sell cars, and discover rare vehicles; from Aston Martin icons to modern performance cars. Trusted by enthusiasts worldwide.
**LIVE CAR AUCTIONS - BIDDING FROM ANYWHERE**
Join live car auctions every single day, so there's always something worth bidding on. Chase a Porsche 911, an Aston Martin DB5 or a barn find Jaguar E-Type.… View full description on the official store →
Car & Classic is Europe's largest marketplace for car enthusiasts, offering thousands of cars for sale, daily car auctions, and a trusted platform to buy cars, sell cars, and discover rare vehicles; from Aston Martin icons to modern performance cars. Trusted by enthusiasts worldwide.
**LIVE CAR AUCTIONS - BIDDING FROM ANYWHERE**
Join live car auctions every single day, so there's always something worth bidding on. Chase a Porsche 911, an Aston Martin DB5 or a barn find Jaguar E-Type.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 170 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.5+🔖 v2.22.1🔄 updated 2mo ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, IT +3📂 Shopping💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2022 (3y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
6 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-07
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +11 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2.22.0 → v2.22.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +11 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2.21.0 → v2.22.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +20 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2.19.0 → v2.21.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +13 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +13 high confidence
2026-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.872★ | 125 | 4.872★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.82693★ | 3,594 | 4.82693★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.78571★ | 98 | 4.78571★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.76389★ | 144 | 4.76389★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.76471★ | 17 | 4.76471★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.66667★ | 18 | 4.66667★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.84615★ | 39 | 4.84615★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 85 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Car & Classic make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Car & Classic earns approximately $644/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is Car & Classic profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $140K and monthly revenue $644, Car & Classic looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Car & Classic?▴
Browse the full Shopping category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Car & Classic built with?▴
Our heuristic places Car & Classic on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Car & Classic still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Slowing (25% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Car & Classic sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $10K (marketplace range $10K – $15K). Calculated as 19× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was Car & Classic last updated?▴
Car & Classic last shipped a new version on 2026-07-31 — 2 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Car & Classic?▴
Car & Classic is published by Car and Classic Limited on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Car & Classic's BU Score?▴
Car & Classic has a BU Score of 58/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.