You can search for a car the way you think about a car. Want to search by make and model? By price? Engine size? Or maybe a combination of whatever you like.

Take a look at the drop-down menus in the search form and search for a car how you want. When you’re happy with what you’re looking for, click ‘Show Results Below’ at the bottom-right of the blue search box and a list of car adverts will appear.

Select a minimum and maximum price from the drop-down menus under ‘Vehicle attributes’ before clicking ‘Show Results Below’. You can search cars from £0 to £1,000,000.

Select a make and model from the drop-down menus under the ‘Make/model’ heading to find the car you want. You can choose a ‘Sub model’ and ‘Edition’ to narrow your search.

For example:

1. Make: Renault

2. Model: Clio

3. Sub model: Hatchback (2005)

4. Edition: 1.2 16V Expression 3dr (5).

Click ‘Show Results Below’.

Please note: The number in brackets after the car's edition is the number of new cars available.

Ensure you’ve selected ‘Make’ before ‘Model’ – this is required for the ‘Model’ field to be populated. The same goes for ‘Sub model’ and ‘Edition’ – make sure you select the top down menu first.

If a make and model you’re looking for isn't appearing, there may not be any adverts currently available for that specific model.

Click ‘Clear Selection’ at the bottom of the blue search box.

Yes – after running a search, click the ‘Sort results by’ drop down menu at the top of search results. Sort car prices from low to high or high to low and click ‘Go’.

Use the ‘Car Type’ drop-down menu under the ‘Style/feature’ heading to find the right car type for you, and click ‘Show Results Below’.

Click the ‘Engine size’ drop-down menu and select the engine size you want. Click ‘Show Results Below’.

Use the ‘Number of doors’ drop-down menu to choose cars with 2, 3, 4 or 5 doors. When you’re happy with your choice, click ‘Show Results Below’.

Search for manual or automatic cars with the ‘Any transmission’ drop-down menu before clicking ‘Show Results Below’.

Pick a fuel from the ‘Fuel type’ drop-down menu under the ‘Vehicle attributes’ heading and click ‘Show Results Below’.

• New cars are unregistered with no miles on the clock
• Pre-registered cars are registered with delivery miles on the clock (and can only be registered by a dealer for six months)

Click the ‘Nearest and national adverts’ drop-down menu at the top-left, select the specific advert type and insert your postcode. Click ‘Show Results Below’.

Please note: Auto Trader’s New Car Search will display both nearest and national adverts by default.

You can only add five cars to the compare list. Click ‘View Compare List’ and find the advert you want to take out. Click ‘Remove from Compare List’ above the relevant car advert.

Click ‘New Search’ at the top or bottom of the car comparator page.

After searching for a make and model, use the various drop-down menus to narrow your search down as much as you desire. Want a Ford Focus LX 2005 with three doors and a 1.4-litre petrol engine for under £10,000?

Just use the correct drop-down menus to search for the exact car type you want and click ‘Show Results Below’.

The exact menus used in the above example were ‘Make’, ‘Model’, ‘Sub model’, ‘Edition’, ‘Number of doors’, ‘Engine size’, ‘Fuel type’ and ‘up to £10,000’.

Yes – just click ‘Clear selection’ followed by ‘Show results below’. This will display all new cars currently for sale online.

Just click ‘change’ on the right of the drop-down menu you’d like to adjust.

Sometimes only a certain type of criteria is available according to your search. For example, the car model you’ve selected might only come in a three-door sub model, so you won’t be able to change the ‘Number of doors’ field

The question marks are to help you complete your search process. Click a question mark to make a small advice box appear

Visit the FAQ homepage.