Buy a car · Model Town
Garaged, low-mileage cars, often older than they look. Cars on Carbid are inspected by our own team before they go to auction, so you bid on a written report rather than a seller's description. Anything listed without one is labelled.
Model Town is old Lahore money, and it shows in the cars: large houses with actual garages, so paint and interiors survive the sun in a way they simply do not elsewhere in this city. A fifteen year old car from here can still have its original panels and an unfaded dashboard.
Age still does what age does, though, just quietly. Rubber perishes whether the car is driven or not, and a garaged car that covers 4,000 km a year needs its belts, hoses, bushes and tyres judged on date rather than distance. Our report treats them that way.
Established families, and buyers specifically seeking clean, original, well preserved cars rather than the newest possible year.
Cars from Model Town attract bidders from across Lahore, which is what keeps pricing honest in both directions: you are not competing against a handful of local buyers, and you are not stuck with whatever happens to be listed nearby this week.
It can be excellent, as long as the age-sensitive parts have been renewed. Perished rubber and old fluids are the usual issues, and both are cheap to fix once you know about them, which is the point of the report.
Yes, and we record it. Every panel is checked for repaint and filler, and original paint across the car is called out clearly because buyers pay for it.
Our own team, using a 135 point checklist covering engine, transmission, body, electricals, suspension, brakes, tyres, air conditioning and the registration file. The full report is published on the listing before bidding opens.
Create a free account, place a refundable deposit to join the auction you want, then bid in real time before the countdown ends. Win and the deposit comes off the price; lose and it is refunded in full.
Cars inspected before they are auctioned, every bid public, every deposit refundable.
