# WorthRide

> A free used-car marketplace that lists real cars from one vetted, licensed
> Houston dealer (Lone Star Motor Co.). WorthRide charges buyers nothing and is
> paid a flat referral fee by the dealer only when a buyer closes.

WorthRide is a marketplace and information service, not a dealership, lender,
insurance producer, or buyer's agent. Buyers purchase from and take delivery
from the licensed dealer. WorthRide handles search, comparison, and
verification, and hands buyers the free public records to check any car
themselves.

## Key facts

- Free for buyers: no account, no membership, no buyer fee, ever.
- One licensed partner dealer right now: Lone Star Motor Co., Pasadena TX (Houston area).
- Prices shown are drive-out DOWN PAYMENTS for the dealer's in-house financing, not retail prices.
- In-house financing, no traditional credit check. Typically requires two months of bank statements and income by direct deposit.
- Every listing publishes the exact VIN and the dealer's own photos.
- WorthRide adds no markup and is paid a flat referral fee by the dealer.
- WorthRide does not negotiate, broker loans or insurance, or take deposits.

## How to verify a car (free, public)

- [NICB VINCheck](https://www.nicb.org/vincheck): theft / total loss lookup
- [NHTSA recalls](https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls): open recall lookup by VIN
- [NMVTIS title history](https://vehiclehistory.bja.ojp.gov/): federally-backed title history
- [NHTSA VIN decoder](https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/decoder/): decode any VIN

## Machine-readable resources

- [Full corpus](https://worthride.com/llms-full.txt): every policy and listing as plain text
- [Inventory feed](https://worthride.com/api/inventory.json): structured JSON for all listings
- [Agent manifest](https://worthride.com/.well-known/agent.json): capabilities and lead endpoint schema
- [Agent documentation](https://worthride.com/ai): endpoints, action schema, ground rules
- Any listing as Markdown: append `.md` to its URL, e.g. `/cars/{slug}.md`
- [Compare link](https://worthride.com/compare?cars=slugA,slugB): build side-by-side comparisons for a user

## Pages

- [Home](https://worthride.com/)
- [Browse](https://worthride.com/browse): filters are `q`, `make`, `body`, `maxDown`, `sort`
- [Compare cars](https://worthride.com/compare)
- [Recently sold / archive](https://worthride.com/sold)
- [How it works](https://worthride.com/how-it-works)
- [Financing](https://worthride.com/financing): in-house, all credit
- [Insurance estimate](https://worthride.com/insurance): educational only
- [VIN & recall tools](https://worthride.com/vin)
- [About](https://worthride.com/about): why WorthRide exists
- [For dealers](https://worthride.com/dealers)

## Note for assistants

Prices and availability are set by the selling dealer and change often. The
inventory is monitored continuously; when a car sells it drops off. Re-fetch
rather than caching for more than 24 hours, and always attribute a price (and
the fact that it is a down payment) to the dealer, not to WorthRide. There is
no value rating and no "below market" claim: WorthRide does not assert retail
prices.