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It's a good exercise, but it's not something I would use as my starting point for car research.

- The landing page feels unfinished because most of the page is filled with greyed out icons.

- Once you pick the type of vehicle (cars), you have to navigate through 9 pages of car models. I know that there's a search bar, but it's not what users will see first. Why am I being given an alphabetic listing of cars? You may want to allow users to drill down further by car types, make the search more prominent, and if you have to provide a list of cars, order them by what you think the user will be likely to look at, instead of an alphabetic listing. At the very least, group them by manufacturer.

- Once you pick a car, the information is very sparse. Some pictures, some info about mileage, cost, and then an affiliate link to Edmunds.

The amount of information you get about a car after all that trouble is not even close to what car buyers are looking for. In the end, the only way to do research is to follow the link to Edmunds, so this entire website feels like a way to get affiliate revenue. If you are serious about the website, you may want to provide enough value of your own (Edmunds already makes it fairly easy to browse to the car you want, so that's not a differentiator)



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