SmartCarCosts is young. The maths is solid and the data is real, but there are kinks we know about and probably a few we don't. The people who use a tool at this stage are the ones who end up shaping it, and we'd like to treat them accordingly.
If you leave your email below, here's the deal. When we've made genuine improvements, we'll write to you directly and tell you what changed. More models. Better curves once we've ironed out the rough edges in the data. Mileage adjustments. Reliability and repair costs, if we manage to crack them. You'll hear it first, from a person, not a newsletter machine.
What we won't do: sell your address, drip marketing at you, or email you when there's nothing worth saying. This site doesn't even use cookies. Your email sits in a list, we write when something real happens, and any message includes a working way to say "stop".
Every model in the calculator exists because the market data supported it, but the choices around the edges, like which assumptions to prefill or how to explain a verdict, improve fastest when real people poke at them. If something surprised you, confused you, or looked plain wrong, that's exactly the email we want to read.