Make and model data for programmatic pages
Building a page per make and model (insurance quotes, running costs, calculators, buying guides)? Here are the real facts we publish per model, how to license them for public display, and what we don't have.
You run a site that needs a page for every vehicle: an insurance comparison with a page per make and model, a running-cost or tax calculator, a buying guide, a parts or accessories directory, a deal-alert service. Programmatic pages rank when they carry real, specific facts, and get filtered as thin when they don't.
Most sites in that position scrape a spec site or let an AI fill the gaps. Both are risky: scraped data comes with someone else's terms, and invented facts get found out. Here's what we can give you instead, and on what terms.
The facts we publish per model
Take the Volkswagen Golf or the Toyota Hilux. For every model in the catalog, across cars, motorcycles, mopeds, vans, trucks and buses:
| Fact | What it is | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Canonical name and id | car/toyota/hilux, stable across releases |
Your URL and your database key |
| Kind and body type | Car, pickup; hatchback, SUV, van… | Category pages, filters, comparisons |
| Aliases | Other names the model goes by | Matching your users' searches |
| Years on record | First and last year the official registers have it | "On the road since" lines, year ranges |
| Countries | Where the registers have it on record | "Sold in" sections, per-market pages |
| Popularity per country | Its rank by registrations in each country | "Most popular in Spain", ordering lists |
These come from the national vehicle registers of these countries, with the source cited per country, which is what makes a sentence like "the Dacia Sandero is among the most registered cars in Spain" defensible on your page. Our own country pages and model pages are built from exactly these fields; look at a few to see what a page made from them looks like.
What we don't have
No engine specs, no dimensions, no prices, no fuel consumption or emissions, and no generations yet (they're on the roadmap). If your page template needs those, you need a spec source as well; the vehicle data provider comparison lists who sells them. Read their display terms before you build: cars-data.com, for example, charges twice the internal-use price for a public-display licence of its data export, and Wheel-Size's API terms forbid "any form of data recompilation or redistribution" (both read on November 10, 2026).
Licensing for public display
This is where most data sources get complicated. Ours is one paragraph:
- The make and model data is CC-BY 4.0. You may display it on public pages, at any scale, commercially, as long as each page that uses it shows a visible credit: "Vehicle data by VehiclesDB" with a link.
- That costs nothing. If you'd rather not show the credit, a paid plan drops it for one business: see pricing. For written terms across many sites, tell us your site, markets and page count.
Images
A page per model looks better with a picture of the model. The images API returns licensed vehicle images on paid plans, priced per image, with one image per page as the usual setup. See the car API page and pricing.
How to build it
- Get the list as CSV, JSON, Parquet or SQLite, free with an account. The JSON includes each model's rank per country.
- Generate one page per model, keyed on the canonical id, with the credit in the page.
- Pin the release you built from, and rebuild when a new one ships (usually monthly). Retired ids point to their successor, so you can 301 old URLs instead of losing them.
Questions people ask
Can I publish VehiclesDB data on thousands of public pages?
Yes. The make and model data is CC-BY 4.0: you may display it publicly, at any scale, and commercially, with a visible credit ("Vehicle data by VehiclesDB") on the pages that use it.
Can I publish it without the credit?
Yes, on a paid plan that drops the credit line for one business (see the pricing page). Publishing and storing the data commercially is already allowed under CC-BY 4.0, with a credit.
What facts do you have per model?
Its canonical name and id, kind, body type for cars, aliases, the first and last year the official registers have it on record, the countries where it is registered, and its popularity in each, measured from registration counts. No engine specs, prices or fuel consumption.
Do you have images for model pages?
Yes, through the images API on paid plans, priced per image. One image per model page is the usual setup.
Can I get the popularity of each model in my country?
Yes, for the countries whose official registers we read. Each model carries its rank in each of those countries, which is enough for a "most popular cars in your country" page that cites its source.