Automotive

Mobile MD

A 2018 Hyundai Tucson sells at a Korean auction for $18,400. What will it cost to land that car in Chișinău? Mobile.md gives you the number in three clicks — and then sells you the car.

Timeline16 weeks
IndustryAutomotive
Mobile MD automotive platform showing vehicle listings and tools
Services
Product Strategy
Platform Development
Calculator Tools
Multi-Language Support
Tech Stack
Vue.js
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Redis
Why this exists

Buying a car in Moldova is never just buying a car

A large share of the vehicles driven in Moldova are imported. Not from a dealer across town — from COPART in the US, from ENCAR in Korea, from European auctions. Each one comes with its own paperwork, its own shipping logistics, its own customs calculation. Miss a variable and your $18,000 car becomes a $26,000 car somewhere between the port and your driveway.

And that's before insurance. RCA premiums, bonus-malus classes, claims history — all opaque, all mandatory, all conveniently different from each other. The "car-buying experience" most Moldovans actually have is a spreadsheet, four browser tabs, two phone calls, and a nagging feeling they are missing something.

Mobile.md folds all of that into one platform.

The core

A marketplace that looks outward

Vehicle listings across Moldova are the starting point — full spec, full photos, full filters. But the listing feed doesn't stop at the border. COPART, IAAI, ENCAR, and K Car auctions are integrated directly, so a buyer browsing locally-listed cars can pivot into international inventory without leaving the site.

The auction-to-driveway math is built in:

  • USA import calculator — auction price in, landed cost in Chișinău out
  • South Korea import calculator — same math, different tariff structure
  • Customs duty calculator — by engine size, vehicle age, and type

What used to be a weekend of research becomes a number on screen.

Mobile MD vehicle catalog with COPART, IAAI, ENCAR and K Car auction integration
The sticky part

Insurance tools that bring people back

Nobody visits a marketplace "just to browse." But they do check their insurance. They do look up their bonus-malus class when renewal is coming. They do try to estimate their RCA before calling a broker.

So we built those tools into the platform. An RCA premium calculator. A claims history lookup. A bonus-malus class finder. A Green Card calculator. A VIN checker. They're useful on their own — and they turn Mobile.md from a transactional site into a habit.

Mobile MD calculator suite — import cost, customs duty, RCA premium, bonus-malus
Mobile MD platform landing — marketplace, calculators, auctions, and insurance
Surface area

What the platform covers

4
Auction Platforms (COPART · IAAI · ENCAR · K Car)
8+
Calculator & Lookup Tools
2
Import Markets (US + KR)
16 wks
Build to Launch
The long game

Content that makes the platform the authority

The blog isn't there for SEO points. It's there because Moldovan car buyers genuinely make bad decisions on incomplete information — and no one else is filling the gap in Romanian and Russian. Import guides. Legislative updates. Market-price reads. Written for people with skin in the game, not for search engines.

Marketplace plus tools plus content is the formula. Subtract any one and it's just another classifieds site.

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