About CarSorted

The short version

CarSorted is a free, independent car comparison platform for Australians. We stack any 2 to 4 cars side by side across 200+ specs — price, fuel economy, ANCAP safety, towing, EV range, charging speed, running costs — so you can pick the car that actually suits you, not the one the dealer wants to move off the lot this quarter.

The site currently covers 1,140+ variants across 342 models from 50 brands sold new in Australia. Every spec is sourced from the manufacturer Australian website, ANCAP, the Green Vehicle Guide, or other primary sources. Every car photo is either a manufacturer press image (with credit) or an editorial photograph — we don't use AI-generated car images.

About the founder

Uzzi founded CarSorted in early 2026 from Melbourne. The site started as a personal frustration project: trying to compare a Toyota RAV4 Hybrid to a BYD Sealion 6 PHEV on a Sunday afternoon and finding that no Australian site let you put their specs side by side without scrolling through 2,000 words of pre-roll copy or hitting a paywall.

The full editorial on CarSorted is written and fact-checked by Uzzi with the CarSorted Editorial team (currently a small group of contributors). Every model added to the database is verified against the manufacturer's official Australian configurator before publication. The data ingestion and score-calculation pipeline is documented in detail on the methodology page.

For research questions, corrections, or just to say hi: hello@carsorted.ai.

Why we built it

Buying a new or near-new car in Australia is genuinely confusing. Pricing varies by state. Specs vary by trim. Hybrid, PHEV, BEV, EREV — the powertrain alphabet soup alone takes 20 minutes to untangle. Most existing sites either bury the numbers behind 2,000 words of pre-roll copy or hide them behind paywalls. The few good comparison tools are built for journalists, not buyers.

We wanted one page that shows, for any two cars you're choosing between, the actual dollar and kilowatt numbers. So we built it.

How we stay independent

• No dealer commissions. We don't sell leads, take referral fees, or take a cut on any car sale.
• No paid placement in rankings. Every "Best X in Australia" list is built algorithmically from our database, then reviewed by Uzzi against the manufacturer Australian site for accuracy. A dealer or manufacturer cannot buy a position.
• No sponsored reviews. If we drove a car, we say so (the green "Verified by CarSorted" badge appears on those articles). If we haven't, we say that too.
• No AI car images. Every photograph on CarSorted is a manufacturer press image (with credit) or a real editorial photo. AI-generated imagery is banned. See our methodology page for the full list.
• No fake authorship. Every article has a real human byline (Uzzi, plus a small contributor team). The author link in every article goes to this page.

The site runs on Uzzi's own money today. The plan is to cover costs via a pro-report upsell for buyers who want the full depreciation, running cost, and alternatives package in one downloadable PDF. The free side — comparison, articles, news — will always stay free.

Where our data comes from

Manufacturer Australian websites are the source of truth for pricing, dimensions, fuel economy, towing, transmission, drivetrain, equipment lists and warranty terms. We use the official AU configurator, brochure or spec PDF for every car in our database.

For safety we use ANCAP (ancap.com.au). For official Australian fuel economy and emissions we use the Green Vehicle Guide (gvg.gov.au). For ATO benchmarks we use infrastructure.gov.au. For resale value retention we use industry-standard sources like Glass's Guide and dealer auction data.

We don't use journalist articles or review-aggregator estimates as primary spec sources. They're great editorial reading but they go stale and aren't the manufacturer's official position. See Data Sources and Methodology for the full list and how every score is calculated.

Update cadence

• New model launches are added within 7 days of Australian announcement.
• Price changes are monitored monthly and on each major auto-show news cycle. Material price changes are updated the same day they are confirmed.
• ANCAP ratings are updated within 48 hours of ANCAP publishing a new test result or protocol-year change.
• Articles include a "Last reviewed" or publish date in the disclaimer footer when specs and pricing have been verified against the source.

Found an error?

If you spot incorrect pricing, an outdated ANCAP rating, a dimensional error, or a missing variant, we want to know. Email hello@carsorted.ai with the URL of the page and what you believe is incorrect. We aim to respond within 48 hours and update the underlying data within 7 days where the correction can be verified against a primary source.

Data integrity is our biggest single differentiator versus older review sites that have let their spec databases drift over time. If you find a single price or stat we got wrong, that is a bug we want to fix.

The tech

CarSorted runs on Next.js (App Router) with a Supabase Postgres database. The comparison engine, score calculations, and depreciation analytics are all open-format and explained on the methodology page. We host on Vercel with a sub-second median page load. The data ingestion scripts that populate the directory are written in Node.js.

Get in touch

Email hello@carsorted.ai or use the contact page. We read every email.

Want to compare some cars? Start with the directory, our Best EVs Under $50K guide, or the Best Utes 2026 ranking.