Purchase a new or used vehicle
Verified 16 December 2019 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
If you want to buy a car, a motorcycle or any other motorized device, the seller must provide you with certain information before selling. The rules change depending on whether the vehicle is new or used.
- Purchase a new vehicle: seller's obligationsMinistry of Economy
- Purchase of a used vehicle: seller's obligationsMinistry of Economy
- Sell or buy a used vehicle: how to secure the transaction?National Institute of Consumer Affairs (INC)
- Consumer Code: Articles L112-1 to L112-7Price and terms of sale
- Consumer Code: Articles L111-1 to L111-8Obligation to provide information
- Consumer Code: Articles L216-1 to L216-6In case of delivery
- Consumer Code: Article L454-1Offense of deceit on goods
- Decree of 28 June 2000 on consumer information and advertising of motor vehicle prices
- Gray card (registration certificate)Service-Public.fr
- Sell or donate your vehicleService-Public.fr