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The Collective
Free membership for independent dealers. The institution that was missing.
The missing middle - quantified
The UK has approximately 8,583 independent used-car dealers. One body - IMDA - serves them, with around 1,500 members. That is roughly 17% of the independent market with any representation at all. The remaining ~83% have no collective benchmarking, no shared exchange, no buying power, and no lobbying voice in a market shaped by a handful of consolidated platforms.
Sources
- JS Management / AutoSites - UK independent used-car dealer population.
- IBISWorld 2026 - used-car dealer industry report.
- IMDA - Independent Motor Dealers Association membership.
Live now, for every member
Joining costs nothing. From day one, every member gets:
- ■Full Intelligence Hub access - Market Watch, The Industry, The Players, The Data Room - the sourced, independent view of the market.
- ■A named membership - you are on record as an independent dealer who chose to be counted.
- ■A voice in the policy conversation as the group grows.
What scales with the group
Some of what a collective can do depends on how many members are in it. This is what becomes available at each stage:
- ~50-100 members
A regional members' exchange
Trade stock between dealers who know the same market.
- ~100 members
The Collective activates
The formal milestone at which the exchange opens and infrastructure switches on.
- ~100-300 members
Collective buying power
Better terms on the services every dealer already pays for, negotiated on the buy side.
- Thousands
Meaningful weight in the platform conversation
The scale at which a collective of independents becomes hard to ignore.
These are honest projections, not promises. The value on day one is the intelligence - everything else is what the group unlocks together.
The tool and the Collective reinforce each other
The Collective is free to join. The tool is optional - but the two are built to work together. Every forecourt running the tool makes the Collective's data sharper. A denser Collective makes the tool's exchange more valuable. Neither requires the other. Both are stronger for it.