Let customers pick their car on your booking form

You run a garage, a tyre shop, a towing firm or a detailing business, and your website has one job: turn a stranger into a booked slot or a quote request without a phone call. Every one of those requests starts with the same question, what car is it?, and a free-text box answers it as "golf", "vw golf 7" or "Golf mk7 1.6". So you phone back to ask.

A make and model dropdown fixes that. The customer types two letters, picks Volkswagen, picks Golf, and your inbox gets a request you can quote from.

What the dropdown does on your form

• Every make and model, from official registers. The list is built from the national vehicle registers of these countries, so it has the cars on your roads, not a US list with half your customers missing.
• Your country's popular cars first. Filter to your country and order by how often each model is registered there. In Spain, the Dacia Sandero is near the top; in Germany, the Golf is.
• Logos beside each make, with a clean letter badge when a make has none, so the form never shows a broken image.
• The year as a third step. It fills with the years the registers have that model on record, newest first, because most bookings are for recent cars.
• Motorcycles, vans and trucks too. Set the kind to motorcycle for a bike workshop, van for a Ford Transit recovery, truck for heavy towing. Same widget.
• Never a dead end. An Other / not listed option keeps the request coming even for a rare import.
• Your words. The empty labels ("Make", "Model") are yours to set, in your language.

It's one script tag and two or three select boxes. The car make and model dropdown page has the live demo, the code for plain HTML, React and Vue, and every option.

For each kind of business

Garages and mobile mechanics. The booking form asks make and model; the reply arrives as "Volkswagen Golf", spelled the same way every time, so your job sheet and your follow-up reminders line up.

Tyre shops. The dropdown gets you the exact car. It does not know tyre sizes (we don't publish tyre or wheel data), so pair it with a tyre size field or your supplier's lookup.

Towing and recovery. Set the kind and the list covers cars, vans and trucks from the same source, so a dispatcher knows it's a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, not "merc van".

Detailers and car washes. If you price by vehicle, the API gives every car model a body type (hatchback, sedan, SUV, pickup, van and so on), so a Toyota Land Cruiser can land in your SUV price band automatically. Size classes (small, compact, large) are not published yet.

What it costs

The key is free, the dropdown's requests cost 0 credits, and the make and model data is open under CC-BY 4.0. In return the widget shows a small "Vehicle data by VehiclesDB" credit. If a credit line doesn't suit your site, a paid plan drops it for your business: see pricing.

Your public key is made to sit in your page source, and in Settings you can tie it to your own domain, so nobody can lift it for theirs.

Built by an agency?

If someone builds your site, send them this page. Agencies add the same dropdown to every client's booking form, with a separate key per site. If you build sites for many garages and shops, talk to us about one account for all of them.