Excelsior Group
About Us
Excelsior Group is a Portuguese automotive business group. It brings together four companies with one shared conviction: a car is worth the trust it deserves, not just the price it costs. We buy, import, assign and drive vehicles, always true to our motto:
Excelsior Group is a Portuguese automotive business group. It brings together four companies with one shared conviction: a car is worth the trust it deserves, not just the price it costs. We buy, import, assign and drive vehicles, always true to our motto:
“We don’t sell cars, we sell quality!”
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Why a group
The biggest problem in the car market is the lack of quality. Customers do not know what they are buying and often pay too much for a poor product. We set out to solve that problem with technical knowledge and judgement, applied before every decision, so that the customer knows what they are buying and pays a fair price.
ChillAuto was founded in 2019. As we identified other problems in the market, ImporVIP, Sprint Ventures and Carisma were born in September 2026, and with them Excelsior Group. Each company has its own brand; all share the same management and quality standards.
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Our companies
Buying and selling used cars on a brokerage basis, with a technical assessment and test drive before every deal.
Import of premium vehicles from Germany, on request, with a verified history and a quality certificate signed by an automotive engineer.
Vans for start-ups through Starting Partnerships, based on our own analysis rather than on company track record.
Executive and luxury chauffeured transport, in the Executive, Signature and Voyage classes.
03
What unites us
No vehicle enters the group without meeting our technical criteria. We exclude engines with known unresolved defects and favour mechanics of proven reliability.
04
The name
Excelsior is a Latin word meaning “higher”: always climbing and valuing quality. In the logo, the X is also a road, the one we travel with every customer.
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Mission, vision and values
Mission.
To ensure every decision about a car is made with information, rigour and trust.
Vision.
To be the benchmark for quality and trust in the Portuguese automotive sector.
Values.
Technical rigour, transparency, high standards and partnership.
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Where we are going
Over the next four years we want to serve customers from the north to the south of the country, open Starting Partnerships to growing companies, take ImporVIP to corporate fleets and complete the Carisma fleet. We started in 2019 with a used-car company. Today we are four, but the promise has not changed:
“We don’t sell cars, we sell quality!”