16+ Best WordPress Car Dealer Themes for Automotive Sales in 2017
In our latest Siteturner round-up, we take a look at the best WordPress car dealer themes for 2017. If you’re building a website for a car dealership, or perhaps an auto trader marketplace, these themes will commence you off in the right direction.
The primary features you need for a functional car dealership site are the capability to create detailed vehicle listings, and the capability to search and filter those listings in a useful way. Beyond that, extra features will depend on your intended use. If you’re planning on charging a fee for sellers to list or promote their listings, you’ll want to make sure you choose a car dealer theme that’s integrated with at least one reliable payment gateway.
We’ve selected these themes by hand, based on design quality and features. If you know of a quality theme that isn’t here, let us know and we’ll consider adding it. Maybe. If you still need hosting, check out Bluehost. They’re good.
Okay. Now that’s all out of the way, let’s check out…
Autostars
Autostars is the real deal, providing a near turn-key solution to building a sturdy vehicle marketplace or automotive classifieds website. Savvy users, viewing the demo, will note instantaneously that the spectacle and UX of Autostars is top-of-the-line; this is a product built by professionals with both webmasters and end-users in mind, and usability is paramount to creating a successful website of this kind.
But the developers didn’t cut corners on design – the clean, modern design is deceptively elementary, but ultimately very effective. Unnecessary distractions are minimized, content is sharply focused, and sensible typography choices and a clever use of space result in high-readability. The design is familiar without being dated, featuring slew of contemporary flair.
Listing management is wonderfully thought-out and implemented. Front-end submissions are supported, searches and filters are effortless & intuitive to use, and features like side-by-side listing add even more value. Must-haves like Google Maps integration, contact forms, and social networking are all provided.
The theme is built on the Bootstrap three framework from Twitter, making it responsive and extensible. It’s retina-ready for crisp display on high-resolution devices and monitors, and Autostars is SEO friendly to help you rank well in the SERPs. (That’s pretty significant, right?) It’s translation-ready, effortless to install, very customizable, and well documented.
And if all that wasn’t enough, two other distinct versions of the theme are bundled: one for real estate, and one for building a straight-up classifieds site. Very recommended.
Motors
Released in December, Motors packs in all the features you need to build a fully-functionally automotive marketplace for your car dealership, and wraps them all up in a fantastic design and UX. The developers researched some of the best automotive websites on the market, and the end result is a expertly crafted product built on a solid, performance-optimized and responsive foundation.
The Inventory Manager is powerful, providing webmasters the capability to create taxonomies and categories and an infinite of number of filters to aid visitors and buyers in their searches. Searching and filtering is AJAX powered, meaning no page reloads are necessary, improving the over all user-experience ten-fold and ensuring glad users come back visits. The theme supports vehicle comparisons, and even a handy loan/financing calculator has been provided. Google Maps is integrated, and WooCommerce is additionally supported.
Secondary features are strong, and site admins will appreciate the plasticity and number of options available for tweaking and customizing the theme. The popular Visual Composer is bundled free for haul & drop page building, the Slider Revolution is bundled for building an engaging homepage slideshow. Social sharing is smartly integrated, and the theme was coded with SEO in mind, to help you reach a top spot in Google and rivaling search engines. (Challenging search engines that we suppose someone out there must use; we just don’t know any of them.)
Translation-ready with WPML support for quick & effortless translation, and the 1-click demo install makes installation and setup rapid and painless for both beginners and seasoned developers.
Automotive
Next we’ve got Automotive, one of the newest themes of the bunch. It’s got a classy, pixel-perfect design, built on the responsive Twitter Bootstrap three framework, and it’s got all the features you’ll ever need to build a website for a car dealership.
The theme provides you with an expertly designed inventory management system that’s effortless to set up and customize. An advanced search (filterable and sortable) permits your customers and potential buyers to look through your inventory lightly. Automotive also includes a loan calculator.
The theme comes with the premium plugin Visual Composer, for haul & drop page building, and the popular Slider Revolution plugin. Automotive is a effortless to customize, too, and comes bundled with thirty two fully layered Photoshop files. (!) Six customized contact forms are also included.
Carell
Carell, a responsive, retina-ready theme, earns a top spot on our list. It’s a multipurpose theme that includes layouts for a creative portfolio and real estate website, too. Elegantly designed, Carell is built on a solid HTML5/CSS3 code base, and gives you lots of room for customization.
Some car dealership specific features include: page templates for inventory listings, an advanced homepage search form, and detailed vehicle profiles.
Carell comes with 35+ custom-made pages and over fifty elements to work with. Price boxes, progress bars, four different header styles, two footers and more. Twelve PSDs are available for customization purposes.
Autotrader WordPress Theme
Auto Trader is a retina-ready, mobile-ready WordPress theme made specifically for car dealerships. Developed by the experts at ThemeFuse, Auto Trader is built on top of their powerful framework, providing you extreme control over the theme on the back-end (it’s best to take a look at the options on their site – we couldn’t possibly cover them all here).
Detailed, searchable inventory listings and vehicle profiles are provided. The advanced search form on the homepage permits users to finely tune their search. Contact forms are included, and the theme is integrated with Google Maps.
Comprehensive documentation and stellar support from the ThemeFuse team is included.
Motor
The 100% responsive Motor Vehicle Marketplace theme for WordPress combines clean, minimalistic, and contemporary design with slew of excellent marketplace features and a straight-forward, effortless to use directory system.
Albeit built for car dealers and automotive listings, with a bit of tweaking, the theme can also be used for tourist agency websites, real estate listings, and a diversity of other types of marketplaces. A haul & drop page builder is included for building and editing complicated layouts and the popular premium plugin Revolution Slider is bundled free.
WooCommerce and Contact Form seven are supported, and the theme includes a touch-enabled movie slider for highlighting your top content on the homepage. Translation ready.
Carat
Carat is a responsive, retina-ready car dealer and automotive listings theme that permits you to lightly create a sturdy directory. A built-in package system with PayPal integration permits you to charge users for posted listings, or you can opt to use the free listing model instead.
Built on Twitter’s Bootstrap three framework, the theme is optimized for speed, user-experience and SEO. Users can customize most parts of the theme via the theme settings, and developers with a preference for hand-coding and CSS preprocessing will appreciate the SASS/Compass files that are included.
Utter commercial support and extensive documentation are provided by the developer.
AutoDealer
We gravely considered putting this theme higher up on our list. Released in February, this theme is straight forward, plain and elegant in its design – it excels by not overdoing it with an over abundance of animations and parallax scrolling. It’s prompt and responsive. The front-and-center search form on the homepage is an especially nice touch, and we expect this alone will be a selling point for a lot of people.
Beyond the appealing aesthetic and the slick homepage slider and carousel, AutoDealer comes bundled with a lot of functionality that makes it flawless for a fully featured marketplace website. Users can submit and manage their listings on the front-end using the custom-made dashboard, and site admins can take payment for listings or listing promotions with the integrated payment gateways.
The theme takes advantage of AJAX to minimize page fountains and improve user practice, and provides a lot of nice extras like favoriting and email notifications. It comes with one-click, effortless to install demo content to get the site up and running with minimal fuss.
Auto Pic
Auto Pic is a one-page style theme that makes a big influence visually. Visitors are greeted by a large, striking and animated photo slideshow. Site information is laid out vertically, accessible via scrolling or by using the menu at the top to zoom up and down the page.
The theme is responsive and retina ready, so it’s going to look fantastic on any device you view it on, big or puny. It’s built on Bootstrap Three, and very effortless to customize using the theme options panel in the admin. PSD files are included, and WooCommerce is supported.
Lots of documentation is available to keep you from getting stuck, and the high-star rating means that you can count on above average support if you run into problems down the line.
Shandora
Shandora is a multipurpose WordPress theme that we’ve liked well enough to include on another of our round-up lists: Best Property Management and Real Estate WordPress Themes.
This is a retina-ready, responsive theme (developed mobile very first). It’s a slightly older product, but it shows no signs of being dated, and lightly surpasses other themes of its type.
Powerful custom-made searching and detailed listings make this theme ideal for a car dealership website. The theme is SEO optimized, and the included page builder and theme options ensure you’ll have lots of control over the way your theme looks.
There’s a few other unique features here, too: a built-in quiz engine for engaging visitors, and a built-in polling system.
Redline
Redline is a fully featured car dealership WordPress theme that has a lot to suggest. Vehicle inventory and search is a must-have and bundled in, thanks to the free inclusion of the Premium Car Dealership plugin (a $30 value). Users can lightly customized search fields, adjust vehicle details and specs, switch the currency and more.
The theme is translation ready and, as you might expect, fully responsive. It’s also retina-ready, and effortless to customize with unlimited schemes thanks to the front-end color picker. Movie documentation is included, in case you’ve got a brief attention span and limited patience for textual documentation. Demo content is included to help you get the site up prompt.
Car Dealer WordPress Theme
Another selection from ThemeForest, Car Dealer is one of the newer themes on our list. As we’ve come to expect from themes in the ThemeForest marketplace, this one not only looks wonderful – it’s clean, plain and tasteful – but is also packed to the gills with features and functionality.
We’re pretty sure this one has everything you’d ever need to build a website for a car dealership or auto trading site, but if you’re too lazy to click through and look, here’s a quick run down: a loan calculator, user/dealer profiles, photo branding, sold/featured labels, and super-powerful search widget, comparison pages, see lists…and more. Yep.
Paypal support is built in too, and in a very handy way (it’s integrated with pricing tables). We truly do recommend you have a look at this one if you like the understated, contemporary design, if only to admire how much work the developer put into it. Hopefully it pays off for them (and maybe you).
OpenDoor
Like Shandora, OpenDoor is another theme that began its life as real estate theme, and was later reworked into car dealer theme (we think).
It’s responsive, and the highlight of the features is an advanced search and detailed listings. OpenDoor has sold a lot of copies: there’s almost three thousand five hundred customers. The theme has a high star-rating, meaning that it’s effortless to use, and the support is world-class. It’s updated regularly.
Responsive Car Dealer Theme for WordPress
This Untitled theme from PremiumPress boasts a classic, clean design and comes with lots of features for your dealership site. Google Maps, GEO location and distance reporting are supported, and users can take advantage of the advanced search to browse listings by state, city, zipcode and more. Payment gateway integration means you can charge a few for listings and monetize the site.
Members Area and management instruments permit site members to update and switch their listings, contact details and contact other users. Membership packages make it possible for you to sell memberships to dealers who may wish to submit numerous listings.
Auto Dealer
Ultimately we have the responsive car dealership theme Auto Dealer (not to be confused with AutoDealer, heh). This is a light-weight, quick theme that keeps things elementary without sacrificing any necessary features like filterable searching and inventory listings/catalogs. Auto Dealer is high resolution, and includes a Visual Builder, shortcodes and slew of options for customizing the layout and appearance. It’s a superb pick for building a no-nonsense and effortless to maintain site.
And again we find ourselves at the end of a Siteturner theme round-up. We hope you found our selection the best WordPress car dealer themes useful. We’ll be updating whenever high quality fresh themes are released.
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