Portsmouth News

New car auction website launched by ‘petrol-head’

Joe aims to bring the ‘excitement’ back to buying

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A YOUNG entreprene­ur who bought a £42,000 sports car while still a teenager has set up an innovative car auction business

Self-confessed petrolhead Joe Hammond, from Chichester, has this week launched Carozo.com.

His website aims to bring the fun back to buying and selling specialist motors, by making it friendlier, more exciting and less expensive.

Joe, 20, who set up his first business repairing phones aged just 13, dreamed up the auction site during the first lockdown.

He said: ‘In the modern era, when people are not able to go out so much, our process will make the act of buying and selling cars at auction a whole lot simpler and more exciting.

‘We have a hand-picked selection of cars on our site which are high quality vehicles that have been loved by their owners.

‘The cars offer great value for money and best news of all is that you won’t have to haggle and no one will be trying to sell you unwarrante­d extras or some other package on top.’

Joe said car enthusiast­s will be able to search the listings for the car of their dreams and place bids.

But, even if they are not buying, he hopes that enthusiast­s will still register and take part in chat online, discussing the vehicle for sale, asking questions of the owner and generally joining in the excitement of seeing who snaps up the car.

‘It’s not a forum as such but a live discussion going hand-in-hand with the car on auction, a proper enthusiast community,’ said Joe.

‘It’s for everyone who is mad on cars, from classics to hot hatches, sports cars and those unique, one-off projects that some of us have been working on for years!’

Joe created Carozo.com after buying his own specialist vehicle earlier this year – an Alpine A110.

‘I was trawling through car sites and magazines, as you do if you’re an enthusiast looking for The One, and I thought there should be more fun and a more enthusiast­focused way to do this,’ he said.

In addition to vehicles, Carozo.com will also offer enthusiast­s the opportunit­y to buy and sell car parts and accessorie­s to any other interested parties.

 ??  ?? HIGH QUALITY Joe Hammond from Chichester has set up a new car auction site called carozo. com selling a ‘hand-picked’ selection of vehicles
HIGH QUALITY Joe Hammond from Chichester has set up a new car auction site called carozo. com selling a ‘hand-picked’ selection of vehicles

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