Mockup — two compact-card directions using the real SEAT Ateca from your screenshot. Try the Density and View toggles, hover the flag icons, click the "..." menu.

Making the card smaller without losing anything

Measured live: the current card is 840px collapsed, 1,027px with your "show everything" preference on — roughly one car per screen. Where it goes: the photo is 384px (46%, a side effect of the v3.0 4:3 ratio at today's column width), the gauge block ~148px with margins, and ~140px is pure inter-section whitespace. Nothing below is deleted — everything is still one hover or one click away.

384pxphoto (46% of card) — 4:3 at column width
148pxgauge incl. margins — 46px of it fixed empty space
~140pxwhitespace between sections
187pxadded by "expand all flag notes" (your current setting)
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Density
— both remembered per browser, replacing today's hidden "expand everything" chevron behaviour
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2018 SEAT Ateca SE Technology TDI

201877,350 mi 1.6 Diesel1 owner LincolnGrade 1 CAP  £6,450
MAX BID£8,184
RETAILS FOR · CAZANA£11,184
RESERVE£6,756
+£1,428 room
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Partial service history · lower quality buy
Priced on Cazana · run Glass's checks to add it
Sold 2 before · 119 days avg
£878 prep · £908 margin
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2018 SEAT Ateca SE Technology TDI

RO68 TMU
201877,350 mi 1.6 D1 owner Grade 1
Reserve £6,756 MAX BID£8,184 +£1,428 Retails £11,184
Partial service history · lower quality buy
Priced on Cazana · run Glass's checks to add it
Sold 2 before · 119 days avg · £908 margin
Partial service history · lower quality buy Priced on Cazana · run Glass's checks to add it Sold 2 before · 119 days avg £878 prep · £908 margin after prep Valuations Cazana £9,725 Cazana +15% £11,184 Glass's — not run yet Open Cazana lookup ↗

Title lives on the photo. One chip row. One-line gauge with Max bid promoted to the big figure (it's the number you act on). Flags + valuations + actions collapse into one utility bar — sentences on hover, or inline via the Comfortable toggle. CompMatch's purple dot stays on the track.

The toggle answer, concretely: two separate controls, both remembered per browser. Cards / List picks the form (cards when you're judging photos, the table for the fast morning cull). Comfortable / Compact picks how much each card carries inline — Compact keeps flags as icons with hover popovers; Comfortable shows the sentences, like today. A card's own chevron goes back to expanding just that card — no more one click silently changing every card on the page. Red safety flags always stay visible as icons in every mode.