I am making databases for Europe since 2003, for America since 2014 and for India since 2015… what is next to do in 2016? Maybe Australia?

If this page gets at least 10 visitors per month I will think about creating a car database for Australia!

Been disappointed by sales in America (2 per month) and India (1 per month), compared with Europe (10+ per month)… Australia population is just 24 millions = 1/13 of United States population. If I create a car database for Australia from personal interest as I did for other 3 continents, how many sales I should expect? One sale per 6 months? Too low sale volume to cover my investment, creating manually an original database as I did for Europe is impossible, and in case of scrapping data from an existing website and sell for ~$200 (price of American database), it hardly cover the cost of programmer and time to arrange the data each update.

Another problem is that the ONLY reliable website for Australia I know is Redbook, which as I understand from some people, they are doing own research and also selling database at a very high price, and scrapping a competitor website for purpose of reselling its data would be a big copyright issue for me and maybe for my customers too. See Glass Australia vs CarListDB lawsuit.

Does anyone know any Australian website that is reliable and allow scrapping and using their data for commercial purpose?

Alternatively I can offer scrapping service just for you, without public sale on website (since an Australian car database will hardly to get sales), I can scrap any website at your choice but you need to pay full cost of my programmer partner.

News: as June 2017 I got 3 people interested in purchasing an Australian car database, after discussing with all 3 I decided to scrap Redbook. The full database will be have 92000+ cars from 1960-2017 and about 100 columns. I will sell it various packages (no specs, basic specs, full specs / new cars only or full historical coverage) at prices varying from 40 to 400 euro.

Free SAMPLE:
http://www.teoalida.com/cardatabase/samples/Tire-Database-SAMPLE.xls

Buy FULL database:

Along time, few people asked me for a database of tires, I usually said “I have databases of car models with tire size indicated, not database of tire models. However, in June 2017 one customer who purchased database of car models and tire size told me to scrap data from DiscountTire.com but this turned impossible because every time I access website via scraper it gets redirected to store-locator page. A second customer also appeared asking me for a tire models database. We studied few other tire websites and we decided to scrap from SimpleTire.com because it have large amount if tire brands and tire models, creating this tire database with 272 brands and 50000+ models.

A variety of people and companies visit my website, there is impossible to make everyone happy by offering a single vehicle database, or to predict the needs of future customers and develop suitable databases in advance.

If you think that these vehicle databases are stolen from somewhere and sold “as it is” like on other data providers, you’re WRONG. Being the developer of database and having BIG experience in automobiles, I can customize the database for individual cases.

Tell me what are you looking for, I may customize a database or create a new database according your requirements, and for future customers who may want same thing, you can help me to make database usable for applications that it was not originally planned.

Note: please don’t treat me like your own personal full-time employee, with unlimited time available for YOU in defavor of other customers. I am an independent businessman who likes serving as many customers is possible. So I have the right to NOT do projects that takes more than ~5 hours of manual work and more than ~50 hours of web scraping, if you are the only person who want that particular database. Large projects can be done only in the fields of my personal interest OR if there is demand from multiple people.

Custom packages

I sell each database in several standard packages, for example Year-Make-Model-Trim-Specs have packages Trims, Basic Specs, Full Specs, also all cars (1990-2018) and new cars only (2016-2018). But you can ask me to create a custom package if:

• You need more than 2016-2018, but also don’t want to pay big price for 1990-2018. For example you need 2010-2018.
• You need an additional column that is not included in Basic Specs package, but don’t want to pay big price of Full Specs package.
• You need only SUVs and trucks, or only vehicles made by General Motors (Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Geo, GMC, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn).

Note: if you buy custom packages you will NOT be notified automatically when updates are available and you will not be able to download them. If you need updates you need to contact me and I will email you.

Customization of existing data

FREE customization: rearranging the existing data, deleting the “bonus” cars not sold in Europe, translating technical terms, etc. Do not lose a FREE offer like this FUNNY customer!

Paid customization: if new data need to be added, but if your idea is great and makes the database better thus can be sold to more people, price will be LOWER.

I have developed the databases initially as stand-alone products intended for visualization in Excel, not expecting that people will want to integrate them in websites or other applications.

Until december 2012 I had only 2 databases with specs for sale: Car Database LITE (renamed Car Models Database) and Car Database BIG (renamed Car Models & Engines Database), plus the Car Models List offered FREE in Word format because I was in doubt that someone will ever pay for a simple list of models without technical specs…

… without realizing that there is audience of people looking for a car database to integrate in a website, so they do not need technical specs, they need just a list of models… but in Excel rather than Word!

– As soon as one customer (from Turkey) told me this (30 December 2012), I offered conversion of Car Models List.DOC (offered FREE) to .XLS for €20 but he did not agreed to pay, however I DONE IT and put it for sale for other people, for $29.60 – 2960 models / 103 brands. Surprisingly, in just one month 4 people bought such XLS list of models without specs, outselling the other 2 products. Many thanks to anonymous from Turkey.

– One American did not liked the just-launched Car Models List.XLS and told me to recompile it by making separate row for each year (5 February 2013), after a little talk and confusion, I DONE IT!
This format of database was very WEIRD for me as European, but later I realized that this is the standard format for North America market so I put it on sale for everyone as Car Models List US and it became a best-seller! Later renamed to Year-Make-Model.
Now I think that this guy from one month ago wanted the same thing, but instead of explaining me, he quitted like an idiot.

– An insurance company intending to buy Car Models & Engines Database suggested to add two extra columns for make and model beside full model name. DONE! (December 2012), this boosted sales a lot.

– Someone who purchased Car Models & Engines Database complained that cannot filter the table by fuel type (January 2013). DONE! I added an extra column for Fuel type without charging extra cost (it was originally not included because any reader can realize which is gasoline and which diesel, by model name). Now I am sad by thinking that I lost potential buyers who were needing Fuel type column too, they went away instead of telling me to add it?

– The BIGGEST job ever done by customer request (opposite of the original database made as personal interest), is the Car Tire Database. Initially I said NO to first customers, because takes over 100 hours, but during 2013 I has been contacted by 4 customers demanding a Car Tire Database, so I decided to start adding tires in the Car Models Engines & Dimensions database. After completing 20% my website was hit by Google Penalty, lost 90% of traffic, lost interest in making new databases because potential of new customers was too low. Penalty ended in March 2014, traffic recovered.
A new customer wanted transmission, other customer wanted something else. I put Car tires on hold to decide what is best thing to do, and in mid-2014 I decided to add not just tires but ALL 40+ data fields from AutoKatalog.
I published a SAMPLE of the 40+ fields database, as marketing experiment, to see if anyone is interested in such big amount of data, and in 6 months found only 1 customer interested in 40+ columns (which in this case I would have abandoned the project) but numerous customers interested in specific data (mostly interested in tires, few in transmission, etc) encouraged me to continue.
I launched for sale Car Models, Engines, Tires in May 2015 with 60% completion for tires, and finalized the 40+ fields database for 1990-present in October 2015.

CONCLUSION: many people are looking for things that I did not expected, but I could offer them IF they would not be lazy to contact me and request them. What are YOU looking for?

Creating totally new databases

Learning web scraping in 2015 opened a new era, now I can create totally new databases with minimum of effort, not limited automobiles or other fields of personal interests, by writing scripts that visit a certain website and extract specific data and put it into an Excel database.

Do not just tell me what data do you need and expect me to do research on the web to find that particular data. You need to provide URL of a website containing the data you need and I will make the scraping script. The resulted database will match the original website, which may be or may be not the format you need.

Do not expect me to create databases with data that you cannot find yourself in any form, for example:

• Do not ask me to make database with dimensions of car lights, bumpers, windows, etc. Such dimensions are not provided in car manuals or anywhere in the web. If you sell such car parts, measuring yourself your own parts is the only solution.
• Do not think that I can compile a table with number of cars sold in your country, breakdown by model, if your government is not tracking sales and making them public on the internet. Data needs to be available somewhere in order to scrap it and put into a database.

Examples of things that I cannot do

• Someone was looking for VIN database (Vehicle identification number), I answered that if he have the VIN data can give me and I will see if I can add it in my table, but he did not had (February 2013). A second customer asked me for VIN database, but our chat gone wrong. He told me that VINs are unique per each car and NOT per model/trim… so in this case how a VIN database should look like????
  If do you want a VIN database, please provide me a feasible format, otherwise I consider it an impossible project.
• During 2013 3 people asked me if I can compile a motorcycle database too. I have over 10 years experience in cars, while the experience in motorcycles is ZERO because I was never interested in them.  I CAN start it by compiling a list of models with production years using Wikipedia, but without experience I may be not able to spot and fix errors to produce a quality database. Sorry, I will say NO, let’s stick on CARS only. Update: after learning web scraping I was able to quickly create a motorcycle database in 2016.
• Someone asked if I can add oil viscosity in my database. He said that this info is available in car service manuals. OK, but does have time to look on Google, and read every car manual to copy this info in Excel? Sorry, NO for such high-effort jobs!
• One of the weirdest requests was from a manufacturer of mosquito nets for 4-door cars, requesting a database with rear door window dimensions. No car manufacturer provide such info that is not on general interest… it needs to be measured manually on cars of his own customers.
  

Vehicle database for other markets than Europe and United States

During 2014, 2 customers from Australia asked if I can make a database for their market. Australia population of 22 million people send me 1% of total website traffic and will make my job unprofitable. Sorry, I am NOT interested to build an Australian Car Database that will have estimated 5 sales per year.

Special mention for India, with 1+ billion population and booming car industry, it sent me about 8% of website traffic … after I serve every possible customer in Europe and America, next market to go will be India.

But making an Indian database pose 3 problems:

• Lack of reliable data source comparable with AutoKatalog magazine (Europe) and Edmunds.com website (America).
• The poverty of a third-world country (some customers offered me sums of money that makes me crying).
• The bad experience with some indians, their rude attitude and attempts to get work done for free and pay after that, made me undecided if I should serve them with an Indian Car Database.

Because daily traffic on Car Database sub-website was rising, and because I learned web scraping, I almost quit my other job (AutoCAD & architecture design) to focus my life on databases, created a car database for India in August 2015, followed by Middle East in 2016, both of these selling so poorly so did not created databases for more continents, until Australia in 2017, which surprisingly sold to 5 people in first month, higher sale volume that India and Middle East together despite of smaller population.

Can you make a database for our exclusive use, and not sell to anyone else?

In 3 years, 2 people asked me to make a database of buildings for their exclusive use.

One of reasons for which I LIKE this job, is that once I complete a database required by a customer, I can publish it on website and other people will purchase it too, generating a lifetime income with a small amount of time needed for regular updates.

BUT if you want to be exclusive user of a database, I will no longer like this job. You need to pay a price equivalent with the estimated sales for one year.

However there is a BIG problem: what I should do if someone else ask me to compile similar database? Would be NOT NICE to say NO to the second customer and not compile the data requested (how I can “compile” again? I just need to sell the database compiled for you), even if I say NO, he will pay someone else to compile data, as long the data is about cars, buildings, and other real life objects, he is likely to get anyway from someone else a database similar with the one sold exclusively to you. So…? Exclusive use is probably impossible. If you want I can avoid publishing your database on website, but I reserve right to sell to other people if they ask for same kind of database.

Is possible instead, to offer small customization to existing database to make it slightly unique for each customer.

Learning web scraping in late 2015 allowed me to quickly create new databases with less effort, I created via scraping car models databases for India, Middle East, Australia, as well as other databases (world countries, mobile phones, etc).

I was thinking whenever I can make the next step and create a car parts database. I started studying several car parts websites and talked with various potential customers, deciding together that www.onlinecarparts.co.uk is one of the best. Website is too big and complex to scrap using online scraping tools, so I had to pay my programmer partner to make a custom scraper, but… I saw this warning:

The data shown here, especially the complete database, may not be copied. It is strictly prohibited to duplicate the data and database and distribute the same, and/or instruct third parties to engage in such activities, without prior consent from TecAlliance. Any use of content in a manner not expressly authorized constitutes copyright infringement and violators will be prosecuted.

Furthermore, a car parts database means overkilling myself. As one-man business, is more profitable to create many small databases (1,000-100,000 rows) and sell at prices from 50 to 500 euro to large number of customers.

There are over 10,000 car make, models and engines, and over 1,000 parts in a car, that makes a total of over 10 million parts, scraping at an average rate of 1 page per second would take several months using my computer only, not enjoyable task, even if completed I would had to sell at a very high price at which number of customers will not justify my effort to update regularly.

So, anyone who is interested in a car parts database, feel free to buy from other data providers such as TecAlliance and don’t keep me busy for few months and also put me in copyright troubles of scraping from websites that prohibit copying data.

Download FREE samples:
German Car Database Naming Only.xls
German Car Database Basic Specs.xls
German Car Database Full Specs.xls

Buy FULL database + FREE updates for one year:

This is the biggest car database available for sale, in terms of file size, breakdown of models and number of data fields, but not the biggest in terms of distinct models, because it cover only cars sold in Germany. Anyway, Germany have the most diversified car market in the world.

Last release: 10 December 2017. Some cars are included in database 1-2 months ahead of launch.

Legal: data belongs to German Automobile Club, turned into Excel database after I paid my programmer partner to make a scraping software for this website, each scrap taking about 7 days at 3 seconds per car. I am not responsible for any legal issues you may face for using data copied from another website. If you care about legality, buy http://www.teoalida.com/cardatabase/the-biggest-car-database/ instead, which is an original product “Made by Teoalida” with no equivalent on internet, as the data is sourced from books.

Coverage: website was originally 1990-present, consequently some cars produced during 1990s do not have starting year. During 2016 done extensive research on automobile history and added cars far back as 1970s for most makes. Probably in 2017 database will be historically expanded to 1945.

Note: German car database is RAW DATA as produced by scraping software from German website, visually-enhanced with colors and english headers. This database is NOT optimized for any specific use. If you want me to optimize it you should tell me how do you use database and what changes to make. Production period is indicated as as month-year but Excel store it as month-day-2017, this can pose a problem in your use. Double-check the format of years from sample file BEFORE buying full database.

Looking for 2000-present at discounted price? Database being made in European format with production start/end year, there is not possible to filter automatically cars older than year X like in case of American and Australian car databases. I need to manually add a filtering column as I did for European Car Models Database and Car Models & Engines Database, but because this database is made via web scraping, each time I update database, anything added will be lost. So the only option is to purchase whole database 1970-present. Sorry for this.

Description

Teoalida’s Car Database originates in 2003, sourcing data from multiple AutoKatalog books issued yearly and typing data in Excel manually in a data structure invented by me, making an original product with no equivalent on internet, which you can use in your website or mobile app without risking to be sued by anyone. Because AutoKatalog is a printed book, space is limited so it include one row for each model engine, and if it was offered with both manual and automatic transmission, performance data is provided for manual one. This makes my database the perfect choice for auto parts businesses which do not need multiple rows per for each model engine.

However, a small amount of customers, who are interested in performance data, are not happy with my original database, they would like separate row for manual and automatic transmissions.

Since AutoKatalog was discontinued in 2014, I source data from German website to continue maintaining my database, In late 2015 I paid a programmer to make an application that visit each page of German website and scrap/extract the data into Excel, then I manipulate data to match the format of my car database, to have an original product which I can copyright.

I was NOT intending to sell the German database, but in late 2016 several people told me that this scraped database is more suitable for their projects than my original database, this opened a BIG QUESTION: is LEGAL to sell a database made by using an application to scrap data from a website? Since the website is not mine…

In my opinion, is illegal. Moreover German database may be not usable for your project, because it does have equipment levels that are making too many rows for same engine and because of the way the production year/month is stored in database (see sample). It needs to be manipulated/corrected to be usable.

So my idea: alter the data structure of German database according your needs, delete duplicate rows for each engine sharing same specs, and sell it as semi-original product. Price will be 400-500 euro for full-specs, to be competitive with my current biggest database which is 448 euro in August 2016 release.

But even after altering data structure, it can be traced that was sourced from German Automobile Club, and I am afraid of lawsuits. See the case of CarListDB.com closed by a lawsuit.

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For many years, manual data entry in Excel (sourcing from books, as seen in this video) or manual copy-pasting from websites, was my only way of creating databases. A slow process which limited the size of the databases I could make. Even in this slow process I made about 40 databases about cars, geography, real estate, gaming, etc, from pure hobby.

Starting from 2015 I offer web scraping services… in ANY field, not limited to automobiles. Scraping usually means running a software to visit a list of given pages and copy specific data from each page and put it in a database automatically.

You need just to provide URL of a website that you want to scrap data from, and tell me which pieces of data to extract.

Theoretically I can scrap data from any website, but only websites having the required data in a consistent structure from page to page, can produce a good usable database. After automatic scraping, less or more manual work is needed to make database usable.

Simple data scraping service

This apply on websites where each item have own URL and all data is in page HTML code.

There are few tools available online, usually free download but they are limited in functionality, limited in number of pages you can extract and in pages per second, unless you upgrade to paid subscription, which is ridiculously expensive for the number of pages you can extract. Although you can scrap yourself for free (small number of pages), may take few days to learn to use them efficiently. Most people do not have time to learn or money for monthly subscription. I can help you… my programmer partner made in Visual Basic a scraping software comparable with the tools available online, but with no limit in number of pages, this allow me to scrap websites at lower price than you can do yourself.

Price: sum of the following 4 things:
Number of pages to be scraped: up to 1,000 pages = $20,  up to 10,000 pages = $50, up to 100,000 pages = $200.
Number of columns (pieces of data to scrap from each page): 50 cents for each column.
Complexity: $0 fee for websites where all items are accessible from an index page, extra $ fee if items are displayed with infinite scrolling, pagination, enter data in search boxes, etc.
Work after scraping: certain websites do not provide data in the format you need, I charge extra fee to manually arrange data in Excel.

Complex data scraping service

This apply on websites having drop-down lists, search boxes, JSON, data is behind login, or other actions are needed to display the data you want to scrap. In this case online scraping tools are useless, so my partner will make a custom data scraper made in PHP or Visual Basic, this may take few days depending by his available time.

Price: usually within $200 to $500 range which I share with my partner, price depends more by complexity of website than by number of pages to be scraped.

For less than 200 records may be faster to copy-paste manually than coding a custom scraping software.

Impossible data scraping

Car classifieds websites usually hide seller phone number and contact email, which can be revealed by clicking a button, this is done specially to prevent scraping and protect emails from being spamming. The only solution is to have a human visiting each page and copy-pasting this hidden data, which require large amount of time. If you are an insurance company willing to do SMS or email marketing and you intend to hire me to make a database of car owners sourcing data from classifieds website, most likely I can’t help you because of time.

Anti-scraping

Some websites look simple to scrap, but they turn complex because of IP blocking, CAPTCHA or other measures made either to prevent someone copying data from them or just to prevent DDOS attacks. If you ask for price before starting the job, you should be prepared for price changes. Need to do part of job to be able to tell final price.

Notes

The main advantage of working with me is that once I create a database I can have multiple people purchasing it, so you will pay just a small part of the cost of scraping (if database is something of my personal interest – cars or real estate of Singapore). If you want to keep private, I can sell it just for you at higher price and not publish on website, but the BIG question is what I should do if a second customer ask me to scrap same website and he agrees to publish on website to get cheaper price? I reserve the right to sell to other people if they ask. If you ask to scrap a website out of my personal interests and unrelated with the fields covered by website, I will not publish it because is unlikely anyone else to purchase it, and you need to pay the full cost of scraping.

The databases published on website include FREE updates for one year, with higher update frequency for products with higher sale volume. But if you ask me to scrap a website privately “just for you” you need to pay for each update, price depending by how much time takes each re-scraping.

Scraping software runs at a speed of 0.5-2 pages per second, depending by website. So I may not able to do very large databases, for example if you want to scrap 1 million records with monthly updates. The limit of how many records I can scrap depends by amount of customers in current month.

Data scraping is legal or not?

Usually scraping is legal, but using scraped data in a public website may be illegal.

Depends… if the data is added by volunteers, or by sellers in classifieds websites, scraping is probably legal. But if authors of website hardworked to compile data from sources like car brochures or manufacturer websites, scraping is probably illegal, especially if you use their data in making your own website or other commercial purpose. Most websites contains dummy data (example: a bunch of cars having +/- 1 horsepower than official value) and if you use data copied from them, they can prove from where you stole data and make a lawsuit against you. BEWARE!

For a moment I became concerned if my European car database sourced from AutoKatalog books is a copyright violation, but I came in conclusion that it is fine, as long as mine is an original compilation with different data structure than the book, and it target online audience, while the AutoKatalog is a book sold in shops targeting car hobbyists. I am doing each year over 100 sales without having a single person worrying about copyright.

In case of America, Year-Make-Model is my original compilation sourced from Wikipedia and 3 more websites, while Year-Make-Model-Trim-Specs is web scraping from Edmunds.com website who is also offering API thus allow other websites using their data, so again is legal.

But, since I created Indian car database in 2015 sourcing data from carwale.com I started being concerned that what I am doing may be illegal.

Country matters: I had many customers in India asking me to scrap data from various websites. However, when someone from Europe or America ask me certain data that I don’t have and I propose him to scrap data from a website, most told me legal issues of web scraping.

Funny case: someone offered me to sell a car database that he claimed to have been creating it by working for 4 months, 8 hours per day, copy-pasting data from a website. From copyright point of view does not matter if you scraped automatically or typed every letter manually, as long you copied from a website your work is not original. He was probably not aware of scraping software. If you wasted few months doing something that could have been done in few hours, you’re an idiot (I was an idiot too doing such jobs before 2015 being not aware of scraping software, but small jobs only) and I am still doing in case of European database because I source data from books (offline sources), making an original product on the web.

Example of scraping projects done and their price

All scraping software save data in CSV format, but when it is about publishing on website, I save it as XLS and add borders, colors, headers and other visual enhancements to match the style of other products “Made by Teoalida”.

India Car Database – source: www.carwale.com – Made from personal interest because of numerous people asking me about indian car database. Being my first scraping project, took initially about 7 days to figure out how to do it, and later figured out that can do it in 2 days. Price: 30-120 euro.

India Bike Database – source: www.bikewale.com – Made after 2nd person requested a database of bikes sold in India. One of easiest projects, having no drop-down boxes but plain links to each bike page. 250 records, price: 25 euro.

CarWale On-Road Prices – source: www.carwale.com – Made for a customer, a difficult project taking about 20 hours of work in Visual Basic to make an application sending javascript requests to CarWale website to get price of each car in each city, application works at a rate of 2 requests per second, so 3100 cars × 510 cities = 1632000 seconds = 226 hours needed to get all on-road prices, RTO tax and insurance. Price: $300 USD of which $200 goes to programmer and $100 my fee for keeping scraping application running daily for a month.

Skyscrapers Buildings Database – source: www.emporis.com – Made from personal interest, put for sale for $150 (15000 buildings) and turned into a marketing failure, 1 year passed and nobody purchased it (except a customer asking me for make US buildings database, see below). Took about 20 hours to compile manually list of cities with buildings over 100 meters, then list of buildings from these cities, then used a software to automatically extract data about each building. 15000+ buildings. Emporis block my IP for 2 days if I access more than 3000 pages in one day, so data extraction was limited to 3000 buildings per day, which took about 1 hour daily for 6 days.

US Buildings Database – source: www.emporis.com – Made for a customer seeing above Skyscrapers database told me to make a similar databases with all types of buildings from USA, 160,000+ buildings, had to run scraper in over 100 batches of max 2000 buildings, change IP after each batch, running again and again blocked URLs until I was able to get all buildings. 60 hours of work. Price: $600.

Singapore Condo Database – source: www.singaporeexpats.com – Made for a customer, took 3 hours and sold database with 2809 condos for $140.50 SGD.

Singapore Condo Database II – source: www.propertyguru.com.sg – Made for a customer. Apparently an easy project, having plain links to all condos, it turned difficult because of a fucking CAPTCHA page appearing every 10 pages extracted. My programmer partner spend 5 days in Visual Basic making a custom app that allow me to input CAPTCHA when needed, charged me $300 USD, and I sold database with 3176 condos for $317.60 SGD (about 240 USD), leaving me in loss, until I sold it to a second customer.

Sulekha.xls – source: www.sulekha.com – A bit unusual data scraping, an one-time use database for SMS and email marketing, instead of creating a saleable product containing all car models, all buildings, all of something.

Postal code scraping – a customer gave me a list of postal codes which I input in www.streetdirectory.com to get building name and street address.

Flickr scraping – a customer downloaded a large amount of car images from Flickr and realized that to use in his website he needs to specify author name, link to source page and link to Creative Commons license. I scraped this info, 223,000 images for 223 euro at 0.6 seconds per page.

Used cars images  – a customer asked me to scrap an used cars website, to get image URL beside Make, Model, Year. Took only FEW HOURS and I got over 100.000 car images, all in same resolution. He told me to keep it private and do not publish or resell on website. So I am telling you only the idea. If anyone wants to scrap car images in this way, let me know what website to scrap!

I done few more databases but the customers told me to NOT publish on website, or they are in fields unrelated to topics covered by my website so even if published, they won’t get sales.

For accuracy reasons, any car database should be continent / market-specific.
If you ever see a website selling a “Worldwide vehicle database” including car specs, DO NOT TRUST IT!
Car specs vary from country to country, especially between European and American markets there is very little similarity, even if cars wear same name. Toyota Corolla sold in Europe is NOT the same with Toyota Corolla sold in North America.

Teoalida’s Car Database developed since 2003 is primarily based on German car magazines, although I live in Romania. It also include the cars sold only in United Kingdom as well as cars produced in former communist countries and never exported to the West, making it a complete database for whole Europe (unlike other databases that have only cars sold in United Kingdom, missing many cars sold in continental Europe).

Starting from 2013 I also provide dedicated database for North American market. Between 2013 and 2015 I also provided add-ons for European database with cars produced in India and Latin America, but abandoned it because these markets are so different than Europe so European database + add-on was useless.

Since 2015 I provided dedicated database for India, Middle East and Australia, made via web scraping from accurate local websites.

Model year (America) vs production year (rest of world)

North American car market is tightly regulated by government, all car models sold here are organized by Model Years. Most important, two successive models DO NOT share same Model Year (with few exceptions). Traditionally car models launched in second half of year are considered Model Year of next year, but legally manufacturers are allowed to launch “2017 Model” starting from 2 January 2016. Every year, they launch the “next year model”, even if the car is unchanged from previous year. New trims also appear in middle of model year.

Europe (and rest of world) do not have officially a car model year system, the year of a particular car is used only informally, and it’s the calendar year. So a car model launched in December 2016 is still a 2016 model. European car websites should show Make – Model – production years (as a range, no individual years).

I have seen some cheap-made websites targeting Europe but using drop-down vehicle list with each year on separate row, but since Europe do not have regulated Model Year, they used each calendar year in which a car has been manufactured. This is WRONG and leads to errors and confusion, in the year of model replacement, their list include both old and new models or just one of them at random.

Check yourself ebay.com/motors and ebay.co.uk/motors, see the difference? This makes combination virtually impossible, unless you adapt American database to European / rest of world format, which is not on the taste of American customers.

Americans doing their business in Europe or worldwide, argued with me saying that my European database is WRONG. Actually it is CORRECT for us. Me too, I considered the american system strange and wrong, until 2013.

More differences between Europe and America markets

Many European and Japanese cars were sold in US with bigger bumpers, getting few extra inches in length.

Cars are sold in US with less engine choices, usually top of range. Example: the 2007-2012 BMW 3-Series E90 have versions 328i, 335i, 335d, M3, while in Europe the versions are 318i, 320i, 325i, 330i, 335i, 316d, 318d, 320d, 325d, 330d, 335d, M3.

Sometimes US engines do not exist in rest of world. Example: VW Golf 6 is sold in US with a 2.5 liters 5 cylinders 170 PS engine which do not exists in Europe where all engines are 4 cylinders, ranging from 1.4 to 2.0 liters turbo, 80 – 200 PS.

US measure horsepower according SAE rules, usually getting slightly higher power than measured in European DIN standard.

US EPA measure fuel efficiency as miles per gallon, Europe measure in liters per 100 km. Conversion is theoretically possible, but due to different system of averaging city/highway and speeds at which mileage is measured, any given car tested in US will eat 10-20% more gas than when tested in Europe, making comparison difficult.

Don’t trust any database claiming to be 100% complete worldwide!

European car market is 99%+ similar within European Union except United Kingdom and Ireland, and 90-95% similar for all 50 European countries. Eastern Europe have few additional cars produced locally, plus Russia gets few additional Asian cars which are not available in Western Europe, all them being included in my European database. United Kingdom car market is different by having less cars available, because not every manufacturer bother to produce cars in right-hand drive, also UK produce few additional cars sold only locally, again included in my European database.

Asia, Africa and Latin America car markets may be 60-80% similar with European market. If you do not have other options and don’t care about accuracy, buy European Database and tell me what other cars are available in your country, eventually delete the excess cars that are not sold in your country.

North American car market is unique. Most vehicles sold in US & Canada are not sold anywhere else. Many vehicles are sold with different specs in Europe and US even if they wear same name.

I offer Car Models List Worldwide including all models sold in Europe and North America and models sold in local market of non EU/US manufacturers, such as Japanese domestic market for Japan manufacturers (after a big effort in 2014). However it will be NEVER complete for all of the 200+ countries in the world, it DO NOT include cars manufactured in a given country and sold somewhere else but not in Europe, USA, neither in their own country’s market.

If do you need a worldwide database more detailed than a simple Make / Model list, things get very… COMPLEX. Car specs vary from one market to another. NOBODY can make a worldwide / global vehicle database for every 200+ countries in the world, at a reasonable accuracy.

The problem is that Japan and South Korea export SAME cars under dozens of different names in various countries. If this was not worse enough, same name is sometimes used in multiple countries for unrelated cars. For example: the Samsung SM3 produced in Korea is also sold in Mexico as Renault Scala and in Russia as Nissan Almera, unrelated with the well-known Japanese Nissan Almera sold all over Europe until 2007. This Russian Almera and its years (and dozens of other similar name changes) are NOT included in Car Models List. Ford do the same, see Ford Escort (Europe) and Ford Escort (North America).

People outside Europe and America are facing trouble finding a database suitable for their country

Some customers are saying “I need a global car database containing European cars (BMW, Skoda, etc) and Japanese cars (Nissan, Toyota, etc), we have all of them in Brazil”. My European database have Japanese models sold in Europe while American database have Japanese models sold in US. Japan manufacturers sell a line of models in Europe, another line of models in North America, another line of models in Latin America, and so on.

Example: Toyota sold the following models in calendar year 2015 / US MY 2016:
In United States: 4Runner, Avalon, Camry, Corolla, Highlander, Land Cruiser, Mirai, Prius, Prius c, Prius v, RAV4, Sequoia, Sienna, Tacoma, Tundra, Yaris.
In Europe: Auris, Avensis, Aygo, GT86, Hilux, iQ, Land Cruiser, Mirai, Prius, Prius+, RAV4, Urban Cruiser, Verso, Verso-S, Yaris.
In India: Corolla, Camry, Etios, Fortuner, Innova, Land Cruiser, Land Cruiser Prado, Prius.
In whatever other country: possible other models.

I got a customer from Arab world saying “I am looking for a car database that contains Nissan Patrol because most database I’ve seen miss it” this happens because most databases available online are for US market and Nissan Patrol is not sold there, my European database does contain Nissan Patrol, but won’t help him either, because Nissan sell in Middle East also Altima which do not exist in European database but exist in American database.

Other customers asked me “if my database contain certain Asian cars that are missing from most car databases” and refused to purchase my European database because they are not containing there as well. Indeed, I do not recommend non-European/American customers to buy from me, but I am curious… what alternatives you can buy?

BEWARE of sites like www.carqueryapi.com which have both US models and non-US models but it is far away from having worldwide coverage. Actually their database is missing models even from American and European markets, and some of my happy customers informed me that bought previously CarQueryAPI and beside missing models, the data is messed up, some models are lowercase, others uppercase, certain values missing for random cars, etc.

Sadly, there are also people coming on my website and chatting with me then buying from CarQueryAPI just because is cheaper or website is simpler… stupid people who take cheap price over quality!

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American-Car-Database-No-Specs-by-Teoalida-SAMPLE.xls (5 columns)
American-Car-Database-Basic-Specs-by-Teoalida-SAMPLE.xls (28 columns)
American-Car-Database-Full-Specs-by-Teoalida-SAMPLE.xls (210 columns)

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Description

I offered a car database for USA market since 2014, named Year-Make-Model-Trim-Specs, but it does not have several things that some customers were looking for, for example MSRP (manufacturer’s suggested retail price).

I discovered another easy-to-scrap website in October 2017 when a customer interested in MSRP suggested me to do scraping from that website and create a new database for American market, then in November 2017 another customer asked me for specific data so I offered to sell him same database, re-scraped to include all specifications. After selling privately to 2 customers, both interested in 2017-2018 models only, I decided to scrap all 1997-2018 models and publish database on website so everyone can purchase.

Scraping job takes 80 hours at speed of 6 seconds per page, which I will be doing again every update.

List of car makes

Acura, Alfa Romeo, AM General, Aston Martin, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Daewoo, Dodge, Eagle, Ferrari, FIAT, Fisker, Ford, Geo, GMC, Honda, HUMMER, Hyundai, INFINITI, Isuzu, Jaguar, Jeep, Kia, Lamborghini, Land Rover, Lexus, Lincoln, Lotus, Maserati, Maybach, Mazda, McLaren, Mercedes-Benz, Mercury, MINI, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Oldsmobile, Panoz, Plymouth, Pontiac, Porsche, Ram, Rolls-Royce, Saab, Saturn, Scion, smart, Subaru, Suzuki, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen, Volvo.

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Chip-Tuning-ECU-Remap-Database-SAMPLE.xls

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I created this chip tuning database privately in February 2018 when someone asked me to scrap data from a popular UK website showing engine power and torque before and after ECU remapping. In April 2018 a second person was interested in similar database, by this way I made database public on website so everyone needing it can purchase.

Coverage: cars, light commercial vehicles as well as some heavy trucks sold in Europe, earliest car included is BMW 3-Series from 1991, but completion is significant after 1995.

List of updates:
64 makes, 901 models, 4628 engines, as February 2018
64 makes, 904 models, 4631 engines, as April 2018

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Wheels-and-Tires-Size-SAMPLE.xlsx

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I created this database in March 2018 for people needing wheels and tires size in Excel format who are outside Europe and America so cannot purchase my original databases intended for these regions.

Coverage: 1953-present, worldwide, in case of cars sold with different specs in various regions, the “market of sale” column shows EUDM (Europe), USDM (United States), MXDM (Mexico), LADM (Latin America), AUDM (Australia), etc. Cars sold with same specs all over the world have this column empty, so there is no way to filter out only cars sold in a particular country.

For many years, manual data entry in Excel (sourcing from books, as seen in this video) or manual copy-pasting from websites, was my only way of creating databases. A slow process which limited the size of the databases I could make. Even in this slow process I made about 40 databases in various topics: cars, geography, real estate, gaming, etc, from pure hobby.

Starting from 2015 I offer web scraping services… in ANY field, not limited to above topics. Scraping usually means running a software to visit a list of given pages and copy specific data from each page to put it in a database automatically.

You need just to provide URL of a website that you want to scrap data from, and tell me which pieces of data to extract.

Theoretically I can scrap data from any website, but only websites having the required data in a consistent structure across pages, can produce a good usable database. After automatic scraping, less or more manual work is needed to make database usable.

Simple data scraping service

This apply on websites where each item have own URL and all data is in page HTML code.

There are few tools available online, usually free download but they are limited in functionality, limited in number of pages you can extract and in pages per second, unless you upgrade to paid subscription, which is ridiculously expensive for the number of pages you can extract. Although you can scrap yourself for free (small number of pages), may take few days to learn to use them efficiently. Most people do not have time to learn or money for monthly subscription. I can help you… my programmer partner made in Visual Basic a scraping software comparable with the tools available online, but with no limit in number of pages, this allow me to scrap websites at lower price than you can do yourself.

Price: sum of the following 4 things:
Number of pages to be scraped: up to 1,000 pages = $20,  up to 10,000 pages = $50, up to 100,000 pages = $200.
Number of columns (pieces of data to scrap from each page): 50 cents for each column.
Complexity: $0 fee for websites where all items are accessible from an index page, extra $ fee if items are displayed with infinite scrolling, pagination, enter data in search boxes, etc.
Work after scraping: certain websites do not provide data in the format you need, I charge extra fee to manually arrange data in Excel.

Complex data scraping service

This apply on websites having drop-down lists, search boxes, JSON, data is behind login, or other actions are needed to display the data you want to scrap. In this case online scraping tools are useless, so my partner will make a custom data scraper made in PHP or Visual Basic, this may take few days depending by his available time.

Price: usually within $200 to $500 range which I share with my partner, price depends more by complexity of website than by number of pages to be scraped.

For less than 200 records may be faster to copy-paste manually than coding a custom scraping software.

Impossible data scraping

Car classifieds websites usually hide seller phone number and contact email, which can be revealed by clicking a button, this is done specially to prevent scraping and protect emails from being spamming. The only solution is to have a human visiting each page and copy-pasting this hidden data, which require large amount of time. If you are an insurance company willing to do SMS or email marketing and you intend to hire me to make a database of car owners sourcing data from classifieds website, most likely I can’t help you because of time.

Anti-scraping

Some websites look simple to scrap, but they turn complex because of IP blocking, CAPTCHA or other measures made either to prevent someone copying data from them or just to prevent DDOS attacks. If you ask for price before starting the job, you should be prepared for price changes. Need to do part of job to be able to tell final price.

Notes

The main advantage of working with me is that once I create a database I can have multiple people purchasing it, so you will pay just a small part of the cost of scraping (if database is something of my personal interest – cars or real estate of Singapore). If you want to keep private, I can sell it just for you at higher price and not publish on website, but the BIG question is what I should do if a second customer ask me to scrap same website and he agrees to publish on website to get cheaper price? I reserve the right to sell to other people if they ask. If you ask to scrap a website out of my personal interests and unrelated with the fields covered by website, I will not publish it because is unlikely anyone else to purchase it, and you need to pay the full cost of scraping.

The databases published on website include FREE updates for one year, with higher update frequency for products with higher sale volume. But if you ask me to scrap a website privately “just for you” you need to pay for each update, price depending by how much time takes each re-scraping.

Scraping software runs at a speed of 0.5-2 pages per second, depending by website. So I may not able to do very large databases, for example if you want to scrap 1 million records with monthly updates. The limit of how many records I can scrap depends by amount of customers in current month.

Data scraping is legal or not?

Usually scraping is legal, but using scraped data in a public website may be illegal.

Depends… if the data is added by volunteers, or by sellers in classifieds websites, scraping is probably legal. But if authors of website hardworked to compile data from sources like car brochures or manufacturer websites, scraping is probably illegal, especially if you use their data in making your own website or other commercial purpose. Most websites contains dummy data (example: a bunch of cars having +/- 1 horsepower than official value) and if you use data copied from them, they can prove from where you stole data and make a lawsuit against you. BEWARE!

For a moment I became concerned if my European car database sourced from AutoKatalog books is a copyright violation, but I came in conclusion that it is fine, as long as mine is an original compilation with different data structure than the book, and it target online audience, while the AutoKatalog is a book sold in shops targeting car hobbyists. I am doing each year over 100 sales without having a single person worrying about copyright.

In case of America, Year-Make-Model is my original compilation sourced from Wikipedia and 3 more websites, while Year-Make-Model-Trim-Specs is web scraping from Edmunds.com website who is also offering API thus allow other websites using their data, so again is legal.

But, since I created Indian car database in 2015 sourcing data from carwale.com I started being concerned that what I am doing may be illegal.

Country matters: I had many customers in India asking me to scrap data from various websites. However, when someone from Europe or America ask me certain data that I don’t have and I propose him to scrap data from a website, most told me legal issues of web scraping.

Funny case: someone offered me to sell a car database that he claimed to have been creating it by working for 4 months, 8 hours per day, copy-pasting data from a website. From copyright point of view does not matter if you scraped automatically or typed every letter manually, as long you copied from a website your work is not original. He was probably not aware of scraping software. If you wasted few months doing something that could have been done in few hours, you’re an idiot (I was an idiot too doing such jobs before 2015 being not aware of scraping software, but small jobs only) and I am still doing in case of European database because I source data from books (offline sources), making an original product on the web.

For accuracy reasons, any car database should be continent / market-specific.
If you ever see a website selling a “Worldwide vehicle database” including car specs, DO NOT TRUST IT!
Car specs vary from country to country, especially between European and American markets there is very little similarity, even if cars wear same name. Toyota Corolla sold in Europe is NOT the same with Toyota Corolla sold in North America.

Teoalida’s Car Database developed since 2003 is primarily based on German car magazines, although I live in Romania. It also include the cars sold only in United Kingdom as well as cars produced in former communist countries and never exported to the West, making it a complete database for whole Europe (unlike other databases that have only cars sold in United Kingdom, missing many cars sold in continental Europe).

Starting from 2013 I also provide dedicated database for North American market. Between 2013 and 2015 I also provided add-ons for European database with cars produced in India and Latin America, but abandoned it because these markets are so different than Europe so European database + add-on was useless.

Since 2015 I provided dedicated database for India, Middle East and Australia, made via web scraping from accurate local websites.

Model year (America) vs production year (rest of world)

North American car market is tightly regulated by government, all car models sold here are organized by Model Years. Most important, two successive models DO NOT share same Model Year (with few exceptions). Traditionally car models launched in second half of year are considered Model Year of next year, but legally manufacturers are allowed to launch “2017 Model” starting from 2 January 2016. Every year, they launch the “next year model”, even if the car is unchanged from previous year. New trims also appear in middle of model year.

Europe (and rest of world) do not have officially a car model year system, the year of a particular car is used only informally, and it’s the calendar year. So a car model launched in December 2016 is still a 2016 model. European car websites should show Make – Model – production years (as a range, no individual years).

I have seen some cheap-made websites targeting Europe but using drop-down vehicle list with each year on separate row, but since Europe do not have regulated Model Year, they used each calendar year in which a car has been manufactured. This is WRONG and leads to errors and confusion, in the year of model replacement, their list include both old and new models or just one of them at random.

Check yourself ebay.com/motors and ebay.co.uk/motors, see the difference? This makes combination virtually impossible, unless you adapt American database to European / rest of world format, which is not on the taste of American customers.

Americans doing their business in Europe or worldwide, argued with me saying that my European database is WRONG. Actually it is CORRECT for us. Me too, I considered the american system strange and wrong, until 2013.

More differences between Europe and America markets

Many European and Japanese cars were sold in US with bigger bumpers, getting few extra inches in length.

Cars are sold in US with less engine choices, usually top of range. Example: the 2007-2012 BMW 3-Series E90 have versions 328i, 335i, 335d, M3, while in Europe the versions are 318i, 320i, 325i, 330i, 335i, 316d, 318d, 320d, 325d, 330d, 335d, M3.

Sometimes US engines do not exist in rest of world. Example: VW Golf 6 is sold in US with a 2.5 liters 5 cylinders 170 PS engine which do not exists in Europe where all engines are 4 cylinders, ranging from 1.4 to 2.0 liters turbo, 80 – 200 PS.

US measure horsepower according SAE rules, usually getting slightly higher power than measured in European DIN standard.

US EPA measure fuel efficiency as miles per gallon, Europe measure in liters per 100 km. Conversion is theoretically possible, but due to different system of averaging city/highway and speeds at which mileage is measured, any given car tested in US will eat 10-20% more gas than when tested in Europe, making comparison difficult.

Don’t trust any database claiming to be 100% complete worldwide!

European car market is 99%+ similar within European Union except United Kingdom and Ireland, and 90-95% similar for all 50 European countries. Eastern Europe have few additional cars produced locally, plus Russia gets few additional Asian cars which are not available in Western Europe, all them being included in my European database. United Kingdom car market is different by having less cars available, because not every manufacturer bother to produce cars in right-hand drive, also UK produce few additional cars sold only locally, again included in my European database.

Asia, Africa and Latin America car markets may be 60-80% similar with European market. If you do not have other options and don’t care about accuracy, buy European Database and tell me what other cars are available in your country, eventually delete the excess cars that are not sold in your country.

North American car market is unique. Most vehicles sold in US & Canada are not sold anywhere else. Many vehicles are sold with different specs in Europe and US even if they wear same name.

I offer Car Models List Worldwide including all models sold in Europe and North America and models sold in local market of non EU/US manufacturers, such as Japanese domestic market for Japan manufacturers (after a big effort in 2014). However it will be NEVER complete for all of the 200+ countries in the world, it DO NOT include cars manufactured in a given country and sold somewhere else but not in Europe, USA, neither in their own country’s market.

If do you need a worldwide database more detailed than a simple Make / Model list, things get very… COMPLEX. Car specs vary from one market to another. NOBODY can make a worldwide / global vehicle database for every 200+ countries in the world, at a reasonable accuracy.

The problem is that Japan and South Korea export SAME cars under dozens of different names in various countries. If this was not worse enough, same name is sometimes used in multiple countries for unrelated cars. For example: the Samsung SM3 produced in Korea is also sold in Mexico as Renault Scala and in Russia as Nissan Almera, unrelated with the well-known Japanese Nissan Almera sold all over Europe until 2007. This Russian Almera and its years (and dozens of other similar name changes) are NOT included in Car Models List. Ford do the same, see Ford Escort (Europe) and Ford Escort (North America).

People outside Europe and America are facing trouble finding a database suitable for their country

Some customers are saying “I need a global car database containing European cars (BMW, Skoda, etc) and Japanese cars (Nissan, Toyota, etc), we have all of them in Brazil”. My European database have Japanese models sold in Europe while American database have Japanese models sold in US. Japan manufacturers sell a line of models in Europe, another line of models in North America, another line of models in Latin America, and so on.

Example: Toyota sold the following models in calendar year 2015 / US MY 2016:
In United States: 4Runner, Avalon, Camry, Corolla, Highlander, Land Cruiser, Mirai, Prius, Prius c, Prius v, RAV4, Sequoia, Sienna, Tacoma, Tundra, Yaris.
In Europe: Auris, Avensis, Aygo, GT86, Hilux, iQ, Land Cruiser, Mirai, Prius, Prius+, RAV4, Urban Cruiser, Verso, Verso-S, Yaris.
In India: Corolla, Camry, Etios, Fortuner, Innova, Land Cruiser, Land Cruiser Prado, Prius.
In whatever other country: possible other models.

I got a customer from Arab world saying “I am looking for a car database that contains Nissan Patrol because most database I’ve seen miss it” this happens because most databases available online are for US market and Nissan Patrol is not sold there, my European database does contain Nissan Patrol, but won’t help him either, because Nissan sell in Middle East also Altima which do not exist in European database but exist in American database.

Other customers asked me “if my database contain certain Asian cars that are missing from most car databases” and refused to purchase my European database because they are not containing there as well. Indeed, I do not recommend non-European/American customers to buy from me, but I am curious… what alternatives you can buy?

BEWARE of sites like www.carqueryapi.com which have both US models and non-US models but it is far away from having worldwide coverage. Actually their database is missing models even from American and European markets, and some of my happy customers informed me that bought previously CarQueryAPI and beside missing models, the data is messed up, some models are lowercase, others uppercase, certain values missing for random cars, etc.

Sadly, there are also people coming on my website and chatting with me then buying from CarQueryAPI just because is cheaper or website is simpler… stupid people who take cheap price over quality!

New database ideas are welcome, as well as suggestions for improving data structure! If there are multiple people interested, I will do them!
Having too many Excel vehicle lists means more time necessary to update each of them. Also, some customers get confused and complained that I already have too many products for sale, so… I will develop only products that people are demanding!

Supercars database

Fans of Ferrari, Porsche, Corvette, etc, as well of C63AMG, M3 and S4, can get what they wants without paying the high price of all cars database. Just tell me what amount of technical specs should be included the database for sport cars.

EuroNCAP crashtest database

Someone suggested this in November 2013. If more people are interested in this project, I will do it! Tell me if it should contain overall star rating or… how many details I need to include about each crash test?

Car photo database

Started in May 2013 and put on hold, due to controversy regarding what kind of photos should be offered, and possible copyright issues. You feedback is needed to continue the project! Check this page Car photo database.

Engine codes database

Someone asked this in 2013. I can add the codes in Car Engine Specs Database for BMW and Mercedes as Wikipedia provide them… but how about the rest of brands? From where I can take the codes?
As early 2015 I found websites like http://www.buycarparts.co.uk/ displaying engine codes for most of brands. Car model names are different than in my database, so will be a pain in the ass to add correct codes to correct models and impossible to reach more than 80-90% completion, I leave this job for a later time when I will have more free time.
Starting from 2015 I found that is more profitable to create additional databases for other markets (USA, India, etc) than expanding European database with engine codes.

Car Models + Simplified Engine List

Thank you to an Indian who gave me this idea in February 2013, unfortunately I do not have knowledge to make a complete list of cars sold in India at a reasonable data accuracy. I am looking for potential customers in Europe interested in this thing!
See SAMPLE, it is based on Car Models Encyclopedia.DOC and recompiled in .XLS format to be usable for webdesigners.

You can help me to take RIGHT decision! Do I should…
– add production years, per model or per each engine?
– Mercedes E320 changed from in-line-6 to V-6 in 1997, should be on same or separate rows?
– BMW 325d, 330d, 335d, all having 3.0 litres engine, different power versions, should be on same or separate rows?

Alternatively, I can scrap from Car Engine Database aka delete the duplicate engine rows caused by multiple body types and multiple transmission options, and let only engine data.

A web-based searchable automobile database

I came in December 2012 with the idea of making an automobile blog with 1 post per car model (see SAMPLE) something similar with Car Models Encyclopedia currently available in Word format. It may display car photos and an undecided amount of technical specs. This is a subject of DISCUSS, especially regarding photo format.
Few months later some visitor suggested that an online car database should store data in MySQL instead of static posts, to allow comparisons and car reviews. This exceed my abilities. That times I knew NOTHING about MySQL or how dynamic websites work.
Developing websites require time and money. Most of the customers who are buying vehicle database are businesses, auto parts shops, shipping companies, car classifieds websites, etc, they may use my database for their website but the cost of website is funded from their businesses. Personally I do NOT have any business in automotive industry so making a website just to offer info…. how I can make revenue to cover my time and expenses? (no Adsense please, it never produce significant income).

Small database – Download FREE sample: Make, Model, Image.xls
Made for someone who was interested particularly in having 1 image per model with no further details.

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BIG database – Download FREE samples:
German Car Database Naming Only.xls
German Car Database Basic Specs.xls
German Car Database Full Specs.xls

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This is the biggest car database available for sale, in terms of file size, breakdown of models and number of data fields, but not the biggest in terms of distinct models, because it cover only cars sold in Germany. Anyway, Germany have the most diversified car market in the world. 95% of models from European Car Models & Engines Database are included also in German database.

Last release: 10 July 2017. Some cars are included in database 1-2 months ahead of launch.

Legal: data belongs to German Automobile Club, turned into Excel database after I paid my programmer partner to make a scraping software for this website, each scrap taking about 7 days at 3 seconds per car. I am not responsible for any legal issues you may face for using data copied from another website. If you care about legality, buy http://www.teoalida.com/cardatabase/the-biggest-car-database/ instead, which is an original product “Made by Teoalida” with no equivalent on internet, as the data is sourced from books.

Coverage: website was originally 1990-present, consequently some cars produced during 1990s do not have starting year. During 2016 done extensive research on automobile history and added cars far back as 1970s for most makes. Probably in 2017 database will be historically expanded to 1945.

Note: German car database is RAW DATA as produced by scraping software from German website, visually-enhanced with colors and english headers. This database is NOT optimized for any specific use. If you want me to optimize it you should tell me how do you use database and what changes to make. Production period is indicated as as month-year but Excel store it as month-day-2017, this can pose a problem in your use. Double-check the format of years from sample file BEFORE buying full database.

Looking for 2000-present at discounted price? Database being made in European format with production start/end year, there is not possible to filter automatically cars older than year X like in case of American and Australian car databases. I need to manually add a filtering column as I did for European Car Models Database and Car Models & Engines Database, but because this database is made via web scraping, each time I update database, anything added will be lost. So the only option is to purchase whole database 1970-present. Sorry for this.

List of car makes included

Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Alpine, Artega, Aston Martin, Audi, Auto Union, Bentley, BMW, BMW Alpina, Borgward, Brilliance, Bugatti, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Citroen, Dacia, Daewoo, DAF, Daihatsu, Datsun, DKW, Dodge, Donkervoort, DS Automobiles, e.GO Mobile, Ferrari, Fiat, Fisker, Ford, Glas, Gumpert, Honda, Hummer, Hyundai, Hyundai Precision, Infiniti, Isuzu, Jaguar, Jeep, Jiangling, Karabag, KIA, Koenigsegg, Lada, Lamborghini, Lancia, Land Rover, Lexus, Lotus, Maserati, Maybach, Mazda, McLaren, Mercedes, MG, MINI, Mitsubishi, Morgan, Nissan, NSU, Opel, Pagani, Peugeot, Piaggio, Porsche, Proton, Renault, Rolls-Royce, Rover, Saab, SEAT, Skoda, smart, SsangYong, Subaru, Suzuki, Talbot, Tesla, Toyota, Trabant, Volvo, VW, Wartburg, Wiesmann.

Description

Teoalida’s Car Database originates in 2003, sourcing data from multiple AutoKatalog books issued yearly and typing data in Excel manually in a data structure invented by me, making an original product with no equivalent on internet, which you can use in your website or mobile app without risking to be sued by anyone. Because AutoKatalog is a printed book, space is limited so it include one row for each model engine, and if it was offered with both manual and automatic transmission, performance data is provided for manual one. This makes my database the perfect choice for auto parts businesses which do not need multiple rows per for each model engine.

However, a small amount of customers, who are interested in performance data, are not happy with my original database, they would like separate row for manual and automatic transmissions.

Since AutoKatalog was discontinued in 2014, I source data from German website to continue maintaining my database, In late 2015 I paid a programmer to make an application that visit each page of German website and scrap/extract the data into Excel, then I manipulate data to match the format of my car database, to have an original product which I can copyright.

I was NOT intending to sell the German database, but in late 2016 several people told me that this scraped database is more suitable for their projects than my original database, this opened a BIG QUESTION: is LEGAL to sell a database made by using an application to scrap data from a website? Since the website is not mine…

In my opinion, is illegal. Moreover German database may be not usable for your project, because it does have equipment levels that are making too many rows for same engine and because of the way the production year/month is stored in database (see sample). It needs to be manipulated/corrected to be usable.

So my idea: alter the data structure of German database according your needs, delete duplicate rows for each engine sharing same specs, and sell it as semi-original product. Price will be 400-500 euro for full-specs, to be competitive with my current biggest database which is 448 euro in August 2016 release.

But even after altering data structure, it can be traced that was sourced from German Automobile Club, and I am afraid of lawsuits. See the case of CarListDB.com closed by a lawsuit.

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American-Car-Database-No-Specs-by-Teoalida-SAMPLE.xls (5 columns)
American-Car-Database-Basic-Specs-by-Teoalida-SAMPLE.xls (28 columns)
American-Car-Database-Full-Specs-by-Teoalida-SAMPLE.xls (210 columns)

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Database starts at 1990 with model names, but specifications are available starting from 1996.
Last release: 1 October 2018, including 2802 models of MY 2018 and 1769 models of MY 2019.

Description

I offered a car database for USA market since 2014, named Year-Make-Model-Trim-Specs, but it does not have several things that some customers were looking for, for example MSRP (manufacturer’s suggested retail price) until April 2018 update.

I discovered another easy-to-scrap website in October 2017 when a customer interested in MSRP suggested me to do scraping from that website and create a new database for American market, then in November 2017 another customer asked me for specific data so I offered to sell him same database, re-scraped to include all specifications. After selling privately to 2 customers, both interested in 2017-2018 models only, I decided to scrap all 1997-2018 models and publish database on website so everyone can purchase.

As March 2018 I realized that the source website added specifications for 1996 models and also 1990-1995 models without specifications (only model names and price). I do not know if they are going to add specifications in the future for pre-1996 cars.

Accuracy notes

This car database is made via web scraping and sold “as it is” without corrections or additions, because any changes done will be lost at next update. While specifications for each individual car are pretty accurate, filtering cars of a specific class may be a trouble, because it contains multiple values having same meaning: “midsize car”, “midsize cars”, “mid-size cars”. Model hierarchy is slightly messed, for example Jetta is 1996-2005, 2009-2014, 2017-2018, New Jetta is 1999, Jetta Sedan 2002-2016, etc.

You are advised to buy Year-Make-Model-Trim-Specs if you care about accuracy, unless you need all the 226 columns of the Second American Car Database. Year-Make-Model-Trim-Specs beside nearly perfect specs accuracy, it is based on a manually-built list of car models URLs thus I was able to improve model hierarchy, correct errors and add additional data not included in the original website.

List of car makes

Acura, Alfa Romeo, AM General, Aston Martin, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Daewoo, Dodge, Eagle, Ferrari, FIAT, Fisker, Ford, Geo, GMC, Honda, HUMMER, Hyundai, INFINITI, Isuzu, Jaguar, Jeep, Kia, Lamborghini, Land Rover, Lexus, Lincoln, Lotus, Maserati, Maybach, Mazda, McLaren, Mercedes-Benz, Mercury, MINI, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Oldsmobile, Panoz, Plymouth, Pontiac, Porsche, Ram, Rolls-Royce, Saab, Saturn, Scion, smart, Subaru, Suzuki, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen, Volvo.

List of updates

1136 models, 7224 model years, of which 6608 with specs, ? with trims, 46140 trims, as December 2017
1191 models, 8390 model years, of which 8074 with specs, 6644 with trims, 46804 trims, as 12 March 2018, published 18 March.
1201 models, 8524 model years, of which 8199 with specs (6769 full specs), 55581 trims (47785 full specs) as 27 June 2018.

Scraping job takes 80 hours at speed of 6 seconds per page, which I will be doing again every update.

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Make, model, version, no specs (5 columns)
Make, model, version, basic specs (26 columns)
Make, model, version, full specs & features (188 columns)
Alternate formats: CSV and SQL (full specs & features)

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You can purchase a smaller package and later pay the difference to a bigger package.
Contact me for custom packages, a selection of columns or specific makes only. See list of updates.

Description

In August 2015 I learned to scrap data from websites, the India car database was my first scraping project, as opposite of the manually-written European car databases that I am making since 2003. Lots of people were asking me if I have an indian car database, that times nobody was selling.

Source of data: Carwale.com, which removed discontinued models in March 2017, so my database contains valuable data that you cannot get yourself from Carwale anymore. Unfortunately India do not have a quality car website that display years produced for every car version (as I personally wanted). Database contains production years indicated only for discontinued models and only if there are multiple generations of same model. Not good in my opinion but there was no other alternative. HAD TO DO IT in this way. If you know other better source of data please tell me. 

Personally I viewed web scraping as copyright issue and cheating way to make databases, but most people are not against web scraping. Personally I am interested only in CARS, but people asked me if I can scrap data for BIKES, TRUCKS, BUSES, car dealers and other stuff. And I did! For additional data scraping please ask!

India database coverage

Mid-1990s to present, meaning that the database is complete for all cars ever imported in India.
Do note India car market boomed only in late 1990s and especially during 2000s. In early 1990s the ONLY cars available were Maruti (dominant passenger cars), Mahindra and Tata (off-road and commercial vehicles), Hindustan and Premier (outdated passenger cars).
Daewoo was the FIRST foreign car manufacturer to enter in Indian market (1994), followed by Ford and Opel (1996), Fiat (1997), Honda and Hyundai (1998).

List of makes included

Ashok Leyland, Aston Martin, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Bugatti, Caterham, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Datsun, Daewoo, DC, Eicher Polaris, Ferrari, Fiat, Force Motors, Ford, Honda, Hindustan Motors, Hyundai, ICML, Isuzu, Jaguar, Jeep, Lamborghini, Land Rover, Lexus, Mahindra, Mahindra Renault, Maini, Maruti Suzuki, Maserati, Maybach, Mercedes-Benz, Mini, Mitsubishi, Opel, Nissan, Porsche, Premier, Renault, Rolls-Royce, San, Skoda, Ssangyong, Tata, Toyota, Volkswagen, Volvo, Willys.

Expected to be launched in India in 2018: Acura, Infiniti, Tesla.

Data fields included

Naming: ID, Make, Model, Version, Status 100%.
Price: Production cars 30.65%, Discontinued cars (last recorded price) 69.35%.
Body: Length (mm) 99.70%, Width (mm) 99.70%, Height (mm) 99.67%, Wheelbase (mm) 99.54%, Ground clearance (mm) 59.27%, Kerb weight (kg) 61.11%, Bootspace (litres) 48.75%, No of doors 99.54%, Seating capacity 99.57%, No of seating rows 72.36%.
Engine: Displacement (cc) 99.21%, Max power (bhp) 99.43%, Max power (rpm) 99.21%, Max torque (Nm) 99.43%, Max torque (rpm) 99.73%, Transmission type 99.78%, No of gears 97.15%, Drivetrain 86.74%, Engine type 87.39%, Cylinders 72.17%, Bore x Stroke (mm) 13.18%, Compression ratio 9.16%, Valves per cylinder 69.73%, Dual clutch 60.92%, Sport mode 61.74%, Fuel system 31.33%, Turbocharger/supercharger 50.60%, Turbocharge type 50.16%, Driving modes 51.01%, Manual shifting for automatic 50.03%, Engine start-stop 49.78%.
Fuel: Fuel type 99.67%, Alternate fuel type 63.53%, Mileage (kmpl) 87.31%, Fuel tank capacity (litres) 96.30%.
Drivetrain: Suspension front 91.30%, Suspension rear 90.68%, Brake type front 98.48%, Brake type rear 98.23%, Steering type 50.87%, Turning radius (m) 80.14%, Wheels 50.95%, Spare wheel 68.53%, Tyres front 71.28%, Tyres rear 71.22%.
Others: Colour names 93.89%, Colour RGB 93.89%, Image URL 87.85% (you can use Tab Save extension for Chrome to download image files).
Features: 131 columns, see SAMPLE file, I do not list them here to overload the page with too much text.
Bonus: Car class, Body style 100.00% (added manually from my personal experience, NOT scraped from website).

Percentages as 1 January 2017 (3680 cars).

How was made & quality notes

While the European car database is made via manual data entry (thus adding new data constantly), and American car database is a mix between manual work and automatic web scraping, the Indian car database is just a web scraping job.

Good news: easy to update. Bad news: I sell “as it is” without corrections or filling missing data. A customer asked me if I can add body type column (hatchback, sedan, convertible, etc). I can add for a fee, but at each update any additional data will be lost, so I would need to charge the adding fee again = not cost-effective.

Typical programmers charge $300-500 to build a web scraper (example), plus $50-100 for each update. You can buy ready data from me for $30-120 with free monthly updates for one year.

Future updates will be only for new cars… sorry for this

Indian car database launched for sale in August 2015, and after doing ~8 sales and 3 updates, I decided in May 2016 to offer monthly updates on 1st day of month. Each update takes 8 fours of data scraping + 2 hours post-scraping manual work. I scrap every make to get models, every model URL to get versions, every version URL to get specifications, remove all data from previous update and put new data. See list of updates.

In February 2017 Carwale decided to hide discontinued models from website. I kept updating database by scraping for new versions URL, add them into database, compare the unique ID, delete duplicates, then scrap all versions URL to get specifications including current price and last recorded price that indicate whenever a car is in production or discontinued.

In November 2017 Carwale removed unique ID from each URL, causing all URLs to be changed and redirected, in 10 cases the old version URLs redirect to 404 Not Found, in 197 cases the old version URLs is redirecting to a different car that it should (multiple old URLs redirect to same new URL), making me impossible to re-scrap old cars for updates without risking loss of model versions. I will continue to update database monthly by adding new cars, but without updates for old cars, database quality will go down over time, when a model is discontinued and replaced with a new model with same name, discontinued model name will not be updated with production years to differentiate from current production model, specifications including prices will also not be updated for old cars, etc.

India bikes database

One of the first people who bought the Indian car database in August 2015 wanted a 2-wheeler database too. Initially I said NO because I was personally interested only in cars, but once I mastered my data scraping skills, I decided to offer web scraping services for individual customers. In January 2016 another customer wanted to scrap bike specs from Bikewale.com, this was the moment I created bike database . I update every few months when I got new sales.

Initially in 2016 Bikewale was showing only current production models, the discontinued models being added near end-2016 but I was not aware of until October 2017. I updated database raising number of models from ~250 to over 600. Note: if a bike have multiple versions, database contains specs of base version, because the versions do not have a distinct URL, proper scraping is impossible.

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Bikes Database.xls

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Dealers database

Several people told me to scrap dealer information from Carwale and Bikewale. Here is the database containing dealer name, street address, email and phone number.

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India-Car-Dealers-SAMPLE.xls
India-Bike-Dealers-SAMPLE.xls

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Trucks and buses

I made them in September 2016 for a customer who never paid for the job he requested me to do. First person to purchase them came in January 2018 so I updated them for first time, future updates will be done at request.

As August 2018 I noticed that CarDekho made each version URL to redirect to main model URL, effectively making me impossible to scrap specifications of other versions than base version. Probably I will never update them again. Only 3 people purchased them so does not worth my effort to keep maintaining.

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Trucks Database.xls and Buses Database.xls – Easy job, source of data: CarDekho.com.

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Other databases

CarWale On-Road Prices.csv – A very difficult job which involved about 20 hours of coding in Visual Basic to make an application sending javascript requests to CarWale website to get price of each car in each city, application works at a rate of 2 requests per second, so 3100 cars × 510 cities = 1632000 seconds = 226 hours needed to get all on-road prices, RTO tax and insurance. The empty cells is because certain cars are available only in selected cities (Aston Martin only in Mumbai, Maruti is available in 500+ cities).

Due to time required to scrap all cities, I done future updates MONTHLY for a shortened list of 47 cities that takes about 22 hours and asked customer to pay for each update.

Goods and Services Tax was implemented on 1 July 2017 and harmonized car prices across India, the customer told me that updates are no longer required.

Used cars – Scraping used cars websites is a big stupidity in my opinion, since they are never complete, cars are removed from site once their owners found a buyer, you are not getting any usable data, but someone told me specifically to scrap an indian used cars website. CarDekho was the easiest to scrap, and have 45000+ cars.

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WARNING for people asking about car owners

A number of people have trouble understanding what I am selling or don’t bother to check samples of what I am selling (database of car MODELS), they ask me straight to sell them a database of car OWNERS with registration number, name, address, profession, phone, email, insurance expiry date, etc. Strangely I do not get such questions from Europe and America, but ONLY from India.

I DO NOT have registration / owners data, and the companies who does have (car dealerships and insurance companies) must follow personal data protection laws and DO NOT share data of their customers to third-parties.

If you do a google search “car owners database” you see at least 10 sites selling personal data illegally, all them from India, the only country in the world where people have no respect for personal data and email/SMS spamming is like a national sport. But I am skeptical about how real is this data, how it was obtained and how updated it is, considering that vehicle registration authority do not keep records of emails and phone numbers, but only of residence address. Furthermore, most drivers do not even use email!

The only way to get car registration data legally and up-to-date is to apply in vahan.nic.in “The Ministry has decided to offer the services to different stake holders like Banks, Insurance Companies etc on payment basis.” If you do apply, please inform me what are their prices.

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Singapore Car Database SAMPLE.xls

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I made this database in November 2018 to help the numerous people from Singapore who visit main website www.teoalida.com after making many databases for Singapore real estate, as some of them are looking for cars too.

Coverage: starting from 2000 to 2005 depending by brand.

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Malaysia Car Database SAMPLE.xls

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I made this database in September 2018 at request of an Indian who asked me to scrap data from www.carbase.my, then in November 2018 after making Singapore one too I decided to publish both on website so anyone interested can purchase.

Coverage: 2014-present, each year being a separate record in database.

PDF chart with 640 most common car models from Europe since WW2 to present. Took 10 hours to write each car model at correct position in the chart, based by year of launch and length in millimeters, using AutoCAD then exported as PDF, I leave it for FREE download… useful for garage builders and students or hobbyists researching the car evolution.

I made it in April 2013, after I was contacted by an architect, interested in “average car length”, for an automated parking system.

Current version contains only cars produced in Europe and focus on hatchback, saloon, estate, coupe, cabriolet, etc, excluding MPV, SUV, etc, as their length are within range of regular cars (no SUV sold in Europe is longer than Mercedes S-Class). Also it do not contains Asian imports because they offer a small range of cars within middle range of European cars, or American imports because are too rare in Europe. Adding too many cars would make names overlapping and the PDF chart would be harder to read. If you want ALL car models sold in Europe you can buy Car Models Database.

Updated November 2014.
Further updates will be done when someone request updates.

The original version of Car Models List in .DOC format, started in 2003. It dates back from the childhood hobby for writing book-style printer-friendly documents in Word (although I never printed it and I guess that nobody will do this).

This file is intended for READING only. If you are web developer you are advised to purchase Car Models list in XLS format, easily to dump into a MySQL database, it does cost few $ because web developers are supposed to make profit. If you really do not want to pay $ for Excel version and prefer this FREE Word version, please inform me how many hours you spent to make this .DOC ready to be dumped in MySQL.

2003-2014 editions vs 2015 edition
Now it is black & white, printer-friendly (although I believe that nobody will want to print this)

Free SAMPLE:
Car-Models-List-by-Teoalida-SAMPLE.doc

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Coverage: all cars produced in Europe, all cars and trucks produced in America, and all cars produced in Asia for European market. Due to difficulties about multi-market model lineups, the Car Models List .DOC is NOT COMPLETE for cars produced in Asia for domestic market or for American market, instead the Car Models List Worldwide .XLS is complete, and include regular updates.

Since its launch in December 2012, although I keep adding new models in the .DOC at random times of year and launch a new edition each year, I never checked the .DOC version against Excel version to guarantee completion. Also over time when I found errors I corrected them only in Excel version.

List of updates:
2011 edition: 65 brands on 70 pages. 195 KB file.
June 2012 edition: 75 brands on 80 pages, 266 KB file.
November 2012 edition: 88 brands on ? pages, ? KB file
March 2014 edition: 119 brands on 100 pages, 267 KB file.
May 2015 edition: 138 brands on 62 pages, 421 KB file. First change of format in its 12-year history. Previous editions had each brand starting on a new page (except about 20 minor brands which were showed on the last 4 pages of file), this caused many pages to be mostly white with few row of text at top… the 2015 edition have entire list of models on 2 columns with NO page breaks, this provide a constant amount of text on every page. Added an empty low below class too, not just above, to make the text better spaced apart.

Same vehicles like in Car Models List but displayed in an easy-to-visualize timeline chart.
The Car Models Timeline exclude brands with less than 2 continuous model lines.

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Car-Models-Timeline-by-Teoalida-SAMPLE.xls

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Started in 2003.
June 2012 edition: 69 brands included.
March 2014 edition: 86 brand included, 547 KB file.
May 2015 edition: 97 brands included, 595 KB file.

More details & change log.

Don’t have 1 EURO? I can give you for FREE… just contact me!

In 2013 the Car Models List & Timeline were downloadable in full version via a plain link.

In 2014 the Car Models List & Timeline were posted in Simple eCommerce’s plugin product grid at €0.00 price but since the plugin is for paid downloads only, you still had to go through PayPal checkout and do a null payment, so I posted also a SAMPLE file and a message “Contact me if you want this, I will email you for FREE“, in one year, 3 people contacted me for Car Models Timeline and 1 for Car Models List.

In May 2015 I replaced Simple eCommerce plugin with Easy Digital Downloads which allow FREE downloads so the Car Models List & Timeline could be purchased for FREE via Add to cart.

I hoped they will help raising sales of paid products, because not everyone trust that will get download link automatically by email. Contrary happened: by August 2015 about 50 people have purchased the FREE products and only 1 purchased the paid product Car Models List in Excel afterwards. Also people who purchased PAID products, purchased directly without doing a test purchase of a FREE product.

I realized that leaving these products FREE reduce the sales of PAID products. This is why in September I set the price at ONE EURO. Anyone who want them for FREE can contact me.

I sent emails like the following example, to about 10 of customers who purchased them, without getting a single reply!

Hi there!
I see that you purchased Car Models List and Car Models Timeline on 25 july 2015….
I need your feedback to decide I should continue offering these products for FREE
In May 2015 I changed website plugin to one that allow free downloads, the idea was people that do not trust the automatic delivery system to do a TEST purchase of a free product, then purchase the actual database they are needing, hoping to increase sales. But contrary happened, sales felt down since May. I done a lot of changes last 2 months but still did not succeeded to bring sale volume to previous level. Maybe offering too much for free is the reason?
I see that you opened the SAMPLE files of Year-Make-Model, Car Models Database, Car Models & Engines, etc…. but didn’t purchased any of them after purchasing the free products.
Are these two free products really satisfying you thus you don’t need to purchase the paid products? Or you were disappointed by the free products thus didn’t returned to purchase more? Or you purchased just because saw them FREE and you were not really interested in them, probably you deleted them afterwards?

Future updates

During whole year of 2016:
Car Models List DOC got 4 people buying at 1 euro plus 1 asking to be given for FREE
Car Models Timeline XLS got 7 people buying at 1 euro plus 2 asking to be given for FREE.
Meantime the Excel version of Car Models List got 50 people buying at 24-45 euro.

I offer updates to all databases that cost 10 euro or more. To turn the above ones into regularly updated products I should increase the price, but as you can see even when they can be given free, not many people bother asking for them. It’s pretty obvious that the Car Models List DOC and Car Models Timeline XLS are useless products.

Does not worth my effort to update them anymore! I will focus on the other databases that gets more sales.