Built by Car Buyers,
For Car Buyers
We started BIB because buying a used car in the UK is still harder than it should be.
Why We Built BIB
Every year, hundreds of thousands of used car buyers in the UK hand over money for cars they don't fully understand. The information exists – it's just scattered, raw, and stripped of context. A DVSA database that shows you test dates and failure codes tells you almost nothing on its own.
About Bib
Cars have never been more complex. Engines, emissions, safety ratings, service histories, known faults - the gap between what you need to know and what you actually know has never been wider.
Most people fill that gap with opinions. A friend who swears by one brand. A mechanic who's seen the worst of another. A dealer with a target to hit. It's well-meaning, but it's noise.
Bib exists to replace the noise with facts.
We take millions of real UK MOT and vehicle records and turn them into clear, plain-English intelligence - so that whether you're buying your first car or your fifth, you can shortlist with confidence, ask the right questions, and walk onto any forecourt knowing what you're looking at.
Who Bib is for
Bib is for anyone who has ever felt out of their depth buying a car. The first-timer who doesn't know where to start. The person who's been burned before. The buyer who just wants to get it right without getting ripped off. You don't need to be a petrolhead or understand what a timing chain is - you just need to feel confident walking in, asking the right questions, and making a decision you won't regret. Even if Bib simply points you toward the areas worth digging into, that's enough. Knowledge is confidence. And confidence changes everything.
No spin. No agenda. Just the data, made simple.
What We Stand For
Transparency First
We don't hide scores, soften findings, or push cars on anyone. If a car's reliability record is poor, we say so. If an advisory has escalated three times, we flag it. You get the data as it is.
Data-Driven Truth
Every insight BIB produces is derived directly from official DVSA records. We don't generate scores from opinions or editorial instinct – the numbers come from 143 million real-world test outcomes.
Built for Real People
For the buyer scrolling listings at 11pm. For the person standing in a stranger's driveway trying to make a call. For anyone decoding dealer speak in a showroom. Plain language, no jargon, no assumptions. One honest caveat: specialist and low-volume cars have less MOT data behind them, so our confidence scores reflect that. If you know your way around a car, great - but Bib will still tell you what the data says.
Simple, Not Simplified
Making something simple is not the same as dumbing it down. BIB presents complex data in a way that's easy to read, but we never compromise the depth behind it. If anything isn't clear, tell us - we mean it. Drop us a line at info@superheropanda.com.
Two people. A lot of cars. One mission.
AI generated. To be clear: I don't own that car, I haven't driven into Monaco, and that hair is doing things mine stopped doing years ago.
Why I Built Bib
I've loved cars since I was old enough to know what one was. Not just owning them - driving them. There's something deeply therapeutic about a long road stretching ahead, whether that's heading to Norfolk to see family or winding down into Briançon for a summer in the old town.
I've driven just about everything. Ferraris to Montego, yes Montego, and they were brilliant. I've owned more than I probably should have, and once bought a BMW 435 xDrive entirely online, never seen, never driven. It was one of the best cars I've ever had.
And yet, buying a car? I hate it. Always have.
It's unnecessarily hard, riddled with risk, and at its worst involves the kind of characters that make you want to bring a lawyer and a lie detector. More jeopardy than wrestling a Nile crocodile, and considerably less fun.
If I, someone who genuinely loves cars, finds it that painful, what chance does everyone else have?
That's Bib. My attempt to arm every buyer with the kind of data and transparency that makes the whole thing a little less terrifying, and a lot more fair.
Jon's idea of the perfect must-have features: a steering wheel, a bow tie and a smile!
Jon is the engineer AJ turns to when something needs to be right rather than just plausible. He stress-tested the thinking behind Bib, asked the awkward questions early, and brought the kind of judgement you only get from someone who has watched these things fall over. He also has strong opinions about hot hatches, which around here counts as a qualification.
Why I Got Involved
I haven't owned anywhere near as many cars as AJ. Seven, to his fifty-odd. Which makes me the normal one, and probably the better test of whether any of this actually helps.
Because I'm the buyer Bib is built for. Someone who loves cars, likes to think he's careful, and still got well and truly stitched up.
The last hot hatch I bought was a nightmare. The warning signs were all there. I just didn't know which questions to ask, and the dealer was more than happy to keep it that way. He was, to put it politely, a scoundrel. It got bad enough that I took him to court to get my money back. I won. It still cost me fourteen months I'd rather have spent driving.
That's the thing about buying a car. You don't know what you don't know, and there's usually someone across the desk counting on exactly that. Bib is the tool I wish I'd had that day. If it stops one person making the phone call I had to make to a solicitor, it has earned its place.
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