Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal · Since 2017
Life's a journey. Choose your ride.
Every car on our shop floor is accident-free, fully serviced and fitted with new tyres before you turn the key. That's not a special offer. It's how we do every car.
Live from our Auto Trader stock. What you see here is what is standing on Ayliff Street.
Haven't found your ride? Tell Nick what you're after and he'll go find it. The moment a car like yours lands on the floor, you'll be the first to know.
WhatsAppBuying used shouldn't feel like gambling. Before any car gets the NL badge, it goes through the same three-part standard. No exceptions, no fine print.
We don't buy cars that have been in accidents. We don't buy resprays. If a car's history isn't spotless, it never reaches our floor, no matter how good the margin looks.
A respray usually hides something, so we treat it the same as an accident. What we will do is sort the small dents and scratches that come with a car having been driven. Those get fixed before you see it.
If the battery is older than a year or shows any fault, it's replaced. Tired tyres get a new set. You shouldn't be spending money the week after you buy a car.
A battery on its way out and tyres that need replacing before the first service are the two most common surprises in a used car. We take both off the table before the car gets a price.
Every car gets a bumper-to-bumper check and a full service: oil, filters, brakes, fluids, belts. The clock on its next service starts the day you collect it.
Whatever the check turns up gets fixed first, and only then does the car get a price and a space on the floor. You collect a car that feels like it's new to you. Because to you, it is.
A three-month-old car with 10 000 km on the clock is on average a quarter cheaper than the same car new. Somebody else paid for the first drive off the showroom floor. You get the car.
The catch is that buying used can carry risk, and that's where we come in. We care about our customers and we value our name, so every car is inspected, serviced and fitted with new tyres before you take delivery. You stand a far better chance with us. Put shortly, we don't sell skorokoros.
Nobody leaves Ayliff Street quietly. The keys, the bow on the bonnet, the first pull-off in a ride that's new to you.
Nicolas Lizen was born in Evrehailles, a small village in Belgium, and studied in the United States, where he met Sheila Branco from Newcastle. In 2017 he opened NL Cars on Ayliff Street with a simple conviction:
Most dealers just move metal. Buyers deserve better.
Nine years later the ethos hasn't changed. Every car is prepared as if Nicolas were buying it himself, and every customer gets the same treatment whether they're shopping for a Corolla or a Bentley. Because we are for everyone.
Most dealers move cars and add a margin, and a few hide what's wrong with the car they're selling you. That creates a trust problem for everybody, including the honest dealers. NL Cars does the opposite: fix what's wrong before it's sold, say what you know, and treat a R70 000 car with the same care as a R700 000 one. It is why you'll see the same faces on the floor year after year, and why most of the people who buy here were sent by somebody who bought here before.
Tell us what you earn and what you'd like to spend each month, and we'll walk you through the application. No forms. Just a conversation.
WhatsAppWe buy cars too. Send a few photos, the mileage and the service history, and you'll have an honest number back, usually the same day.
WhatsAppTell us what you're after and we'll go find it. We find cars for people every week.
WhatsApp23 Ayliff Street, Newcastle
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa