Enter a registration to see whether the car was imported, where it came from, and whether it carries an export or scrapped marker.
✓Imported vehicle marker
✓Country of origin
✓Exported and scrapped markers
✓Full specification and Euro emissions status
✓Plus MOT history, mileage and valuation
Plenty of imported cars are excellent, and some models were only ever sold abroad. What changes is the value and the paperwork: an import typically sells for less than a UK supplied equivalent, some insurers charge more, and parts can be harder to source if the specification differs. The issue is buying one at UK car money without knowing.
A car imported partway through its life has no UK MOT records for the years it spent abroad, so the mileage history you can verify begins at import. That gap is where imported cars are most often clocked, because the earlier figures simply are not there to contradict. Where the record is short, the average annual mileage in the report is a useful sanity check against the car's age.
Emissions classification for a car built to another market's rules does not always line up with the UK equivalent of the same age. Since Clean Air Zone charging is decided on the Euro standard, an import is exactly the sort of car where you want to see the recorded figure rather than assume from the year.
Enter the registration. The report shows the imported marker recorded against the vehicle along with its country of origin.
Usually somewhat, and they can take longer to sell, though it varies by model. Some imports are sought after precisely because they were never sold here.