Vehicle data sources
Where the list of makes and models in our configurator comes from.
VehiclesDB
The full list of car, van and truck makes and models comes from the open VehiclesDB database, built from official vehicle registers. We add generations of popular models by hand.
Wikidata
Some generations with production years come from Wikidata. wikidata.org (CC0 1.0)
Source registers
VehiclesDB combines data from the official sources below. Their licences require the original notices to be reproduced — we quote them unchanged.
- Argentine initial car registrations (DNRPA microdata)
Contains DNRPA vehicle registration data (Ministerio de Justicia, Argentina) from datos.jus.gob.ar, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
- Canadian fuel consumption ratings (Natural Resources Canada)
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Natural Resources Canada fuel consumption ratings).
- German new car registrations by make and model series (KBA FZ10)
Datenquelle: Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA), Neuzulassungen von Personenkraftwagen nach Marken und Modellreihen (FZ 10); dl-de/by-2-0. Data reconciled/normalized by VehiclesDB (changes marked per license).
- Spanish vehicle registrations (DGT microdata, MATRABA)
Contains data from the Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT) vehicle registration microdata, reused under Spain's public sector information reuse terms (Ley 37/2007; datos.gob.es).
- Finnish vehicle register open data (Traficom)
Contains Traficom's open vehicle register data (Finland), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
- Irish new private car licensing statistics (CSO table TEM20)
Contains Central Statistics Office (Ireland) data (table TEM20), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (© Government of Ireland).
- Luxembourg vehicle register operations (SNCA)
Contains public data from the Luxembourg vehicle register (SNCA, CC0).
- Malaysian car registration transactions (JPJ via data.gov.my)
Contains JPJ vehicle registration data from data.gov.my (Government of Malaysia), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
- Dutch vehicle register (RDW Open Data)
Contains public data from the Dutch vehicle register (CC0).
- New Zealand Motor Vehicle Register (Waka Kotahi NZTA open data)
Contains data from the New Zealand Motor Vehicle Register (Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
- Thai new vehicle registrations by brand and model (DLT)
Contains Thai Department of Land Transport first-registration statistics (gdcatalog.dlt.go.th), published as government open data ("Open Data Common").
- Ukrainian vehicle registration operations (MVS/HSC open data)
Contains vehicle registration data from Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs (data.gov.ua), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
- UK vehicle licensing statistics (DfT/DVLA table VEH0120)
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (source: Department for Transport / DVLA, table VEH0120).
- US EPA/DOE fuel economy vehicle catalog (fueleconomy.gov)
Contains US EPA/DOE fuel economy data (fueleconomy.gov), a US Government work in the public domain; DOE acknowledged as requested.
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