Established operators
You already know how to rent cars. This is the money layer.
Carlyle does not manage your calendar or your cleaners. It handles the part that decides whether the fleet compounds: what you buy, what it costs to keep, and when you get out.
At three cars and up
The failure modes change
Nobody with a running fleet is failing at listing a car. The money leaks somewhere else.
The next buy is a coin flip
You know the models that worked for you. You do not know whether this specific car, at this price and this odometer, clears your own bar - until it is too late to renegotiate.
Cars quietly outstay their welcome
The most expensive car in a fleet is the one held six months past its window, into the transmission or the timing chain. That date is predictable per model.
The spreadsheet stops scaling
Five cars fit in your head. Twelve do not. Service intervals, odometers, and replacement timing drift until something breaks on a booked weekend.
What you get
Built for a fleet, at any size
Run the numbers in seconds, not evenings
Paste a listing link or a VIN. Out-the-door cost, live market rate for that class, real service cost for that model, break-even, and a straight buy / negotiate / pass call.
Sell timing per car
Every car gets a sell-by mileage set ahead of its own known big-ticket repair window - not a generic three-year rule.
The garage holds the whole fleet
Service schedules seeded from a catalog of 804 models, tracked against each odometer, with repair windows flagged before you hit them.
A weekly digest that earns its place
One email: what is overdue, whose sell window moved, which odometers have gone stale. Silence when there is nothing to do.
Ask Carlyle
Run a report, add a car, check recalls, or ask what is due across the fleet - by conversation, with the real engine behind every number.
Numbers you can hand to a partner
Every report is saved, dated, and exportable as a PDF - for a partner, a lender, or your accountant at year end.
From an operator, for operators
Carlyle encodes how I size up a car before I buy it for my own fleet in Southern California: the earn, the depreciation, the maintenance tail, the exit. It is the checklist in an operator's head, turned into a report you can run in seconds and hand to a partner without translating it first.
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