TowMate
A price check for used cars in Brazil, built from the listings themselves rather than from a table.
What it is
The FIPE table prices the car that left the factory. It has nothing to say about armour, which can be most of the difference between two listings of the same car. TowMate reads the listings for the same model and year and shows where an asking price sits among them, with the arithmetic visible.
How it works
- The premium
- Asking price minus FIPE for the same year and version, set against the median for the same model one year either side. It shows which FIPE row it used, and leaves the field empty when there is no reliable match.
- Searches from a sentence
- You describe the car in one sentence. A model turns it into searches, and code resolves the real versions from FIPE before you confirm anything.
- Failing loudly
- A partial sweep never marks a listing as sold. If more than a fifth of a result is some other model, the collection stops and says so.
- Polite collection
- It reads marketplaces and dealer sites, respects robots.txt, and pauses between requests.
What is true today
It runs in Portuguese. An asking price is not a sale price, and it says so on every page that shows one.