How Wasel Motors works

Wasel Motors sells brand-new cars to buyers across the Arab world. We buy each one from a franchised dealer in Oman, price in US dollars, and handle the export paperwork and the shipping. We are the seller, not a marketplace — there is no third party between you and us, and this page explains exactly what happens.

Buying a car

1. Find the model and the specification

A listing is a model in a particular specification — the trim, the engine, the colours — rather than one car standing in a yard. Start with our cars. Each one shows whether we can get it, in how long, and which port it loads at.

2. Send an enquiry, and tell us your country

Every country sets its own rules on vehicle age, emissions, duty and inspection, and they decide whether a car can be registered when it arrives. Knowing where you are buying for is what lets us answer properly rather than optimistically. Four things we will tell you straight away:

Our cars are left-hand drive, because Oman drives on the right — so we sell into countries that drive on the right, and every market on our list is one. Any other market, on request: ask us, and we answer honestly. A country that drives on the left will not register a left-hand-drive car, and we say so when asked.
Some markets carry a condition we settle before we quote — Kuwait, Yemen, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Somalia and Djibouti — and each of their pages, under where we ship, leads with it. Read it before you enquire.
Your country will treat the car as used. It is brand new — zero kilometres, never registered — but we are not a franchised dealer, and a car sold on by a third party is imported as used. Your country's used-import rules apply: inspection and conformity, and in a few markets a ban.
The manufacturer's warranty does not cross the border. It is honoured by the dealer network in the country that sold the car, and exporting the car ends it. If we arrange any cover, the quote names it; otherwise there is none.

3. We confirm the price, then quote you

A person reads every enquiry. We confirm the price and the exact specification with the dealer, and come back with a quote that sets out the car and the shipping to your port separately. The price on a listing is the car, in Oman; shipping is quoted on request and is never implied to be included.

4. Terms in writing, before anything moves

The sale is closed off the website — we take no payment here, and no page on this site asks you for card or bank details. What you pay, when, and how is agreed with you in writing first. If anyone contacts you claiming to be Wasel Motors and asks for money outside that, tell us.

5. We buy it, export it and ship it

We buy the car from the dealer once you commit to it. A chassis number exists from that moment — the car is now a particular unit rather than a specification — and it goes to you with the export documents. For the Gulf the car is driven there overland; everywhere else we load at Sohar, Salalah or Duqm, whichever suits the route.

What we check before a car is listed

That the price is one we can honour with the dealer today. Dealer prices move; when one moves we correct the listing rather than leave it standing.
That the specification on the page is exact — trim, engine, drivetrain, both colours, model year, and whether it is GCC spec.
That any photographs show that model in that specification. They are the manufacturer's or the dealer's images, and the page says so.
That its availability is stated honestly: in stock in Oman, ordered from the dealer with a lead time, or not in stock. A car we cannot get right now stays listed, marked “Not in stock”, after every car we can supply. It is never shown as one you can order, and you can still ask about it.

What we do not do

Being clear about this is the point of the site. Wasel Motors:

does not sell used cars, and does not take cars from private sellers;
does not invent a chassis number — a VIN belongs to an allocated unit and reaches you when there is one;
does not register or licence the car in your country, and does not act as your customs agent at the far end;
does not offer finance, loans or insurance;
does not publish a claim about another country's import rules unless we have checked it.