NHTSA vPIC

Returns every make in the vPIC dataset with its numeric Make_ID - around 12,400 rows, including small and specialty builders.

Pages through every manufacturer registered with NHTSA, 100 per page, each with its country, common name, numeric id and the manufacturer types it is registered as.

Returns Transport Canada dimension and weight specs (overall length, width, height, wheelbase, curb weight) for a make in one model year.

Returns Transport Canada's measured dimensions for a vehicle - overall length, width and height, wheelbase, front and rear track, overhangs, curb weight and front/rear weight distribution - as used in collision reconstruction.

Returns every child car seat inspection station NHTSA lists in a US state, with organisation, address, contact details and appointment requirements.

Returns child car seat inspection stations near a US ZIP code, each with the organisation, address, contact name, phone, email and whether an appointment is required, plus the ZIP's latitude and longitude.

Returns the child car seat inspection stations in a US state that NHTSA lists as offering service in Spanish, with organisation, address, contact details and appointment requirements.

Returns the single owner complaint record behind one ODI number, with its narrative, components, dates, crash/fire flags and casualty counts.

Returns every make NHTSA holds owner complaint records for in a given model year, spelled as the complaint lookup expects.

Returns every model NHTSA holds owner complaint records for under a given model year and make, spelled as the complaint lookup expects.

Returns every model year for which NHTSA holds owner complaint records.

Returns the vehicle owner complaints filed with NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation for a model year, make and model, each with the ODI number, component, incident and filing dates, crash/fire flags, injury and death counts and the owner's narrative.

Decodes a full or partial VIN into 140+ labelled variables - make, model, model year, body class, engine, plant, fuel type, GVWR, safety equipment - each as a variable/value pair with NHTSA's own variable and value ids.

Same variable/value decode as the standard VIN decode plus the extra variables NHTSA carries for other programmes such as NCSA crash data coding.

The extended VIN decode returned as one flat object keyed by variable name rather than an array of variable/value pairs.

Decodes a VIN into a single flat object whose keys are the variable names (Make, Model, ModelYear, BodyClass, EngineCylinders, ...), instead of the array of variable/value pairs the standard decode returns.

Returns the manufacturer, make, country and vehicle type registered against a World Manufacturer Identifier, with the date the code became public.

Returns the plant codes NHTSA has assigned to tyre, brake hose, glazing and retread plants, each with the plant name, full address, country and status.

Returns every make registered with NHTSA, each with its numeric Make_ID and Make_Name.

Lists the makes a given manufacturer builds, each with its Make_ID and the full legal manufacturer name it belongs to.

Lists the makes a manufacturer produced in a given model year - only the makes whose vPIC year-from/year-to range covers that year.

Lists every make that builds a given vehicle type, with the make id and the matched vehicle type id and name.

Returns one manufacturer's registered address, contact email and phone, DBA names, country and vehicle types.

Returns the full registration record for a manufacturer: postal address, contact name, email and phone, principal officer, submission dates, equipment types and the manufacturer types it is registered under.

Returns registered manufacturers 100 at a time, each with country, common name and the vehicle types it builds.

Returns every model NHTSA has on file for one make, with Model_ID and Model_Name.

Returns the models a make offered in one specific model year.

Lists every model vPIC holds for a make, each with its Model_ID and the Make_ID it belongs to, across all model years.

Lists every model recorded against one exact vPIC Make_ID, with each model's numeric Model_ID.

Lists the models recorded under one exact vPIC Make_ID within one vehicle type, each with its Model_ID and the matched vehicle type id and name.

Lists the models offered in one model year under one exact vPIC Make_ID, each with its Model_ID.

Lists the models offered in one model year under one exact vPIC Make_ID and one vehicle type, each with its Model_ID.

Lists the models a make builds within one vehicle type, each row carrying the matched vehicle type id and name alongside the Model_ID.

Lists the models a make offered in one model year, each with its Model_ID and Make_ID.

Lists the models a make offered in one model year within one vehicle type, each with its Model_ID and the matched vehicle type id and name.

Lists the VIN guidance (49 CFR Part 565) and manufacturer identification (Part 566) letters manufacturers have filed with NHTSA, each with the letter date, manufacturer, model year range and a URL to the submitted PDF. 1000 records per page.

Returns every make NHTSA holds recall records for in a given model year, spelled exactly as the recall lookup expects.

Returns every model NHTSA holds recall records for under a given model year and make, spelled exactly as the recall lookup expects.

Returns every model year for which NHTSA holds vehicle recall records - 1949 to the current year.

Returns every vehicle covered by one NHTSA recall campaign number, with the full defect summary, consequence, remedy, notes and filing dates for each affected product.

Returns every NHTSA safety recall campaign covering a model year, make and model, each with the campaign number, manufacturer, component, defect summary, consequence, remedy, the date the report was filed and park-it / park-outside / over-the-air-update flags.

Returns the makes NHTSA crash tested in a given model year.

Returns the models NHTSA crash tested for a given model year and make.

Returns every model year for which NHTSA's New Car Assessment Program holds crash-test safety ratings.

Returns the full NCAP result for one crash-tested variant: overall, frontal, side barrier, side pole and rollover star ratings, the rollover possibility percentage, and which driver assistance technologies the vehicle has.

Returns the individual crash-tested variants of a model - body style and drivetrain, e.g. '2013 Acura RDX SUV 4WD' - each with the VehicleId needed to fetch its star ratings.

Returns all 145 variables the VIN decoder can emit, each with its ID, data type, group and an HTML description.

Returns the permitted value set for one lookup-type VIN variable, each value with its numeric Id.

Lists the vehicle types a make is recorded as producing - passenger car, truck, bus, motorcycle, trailer and so on - with their numeric type ids.

Lists the vehicle types recorded for one exact vPIC Make_ID, with their numeric type ids and names.

Returns all 145 vPIC vehicle variables with their numeric id, data type, grouping and an HTML description of what each one means.

Returns every value vPIC accepts for one look-up variable, each with its numeric value id - for example all 71 body classes or all vehicle types.

Decodes one 17-character VIN into a single flat object of ~140 named fields (make, model, year, body class, engine, plant, airbags).

Decodes a VIN into one row per variable (Variable, VariableId, Value, ValueId), including the extended NCSA crash-data variables.

Resolves a 3-character World Manufacturer Identifier into the manufacturer, make, country and vehicle type it was assigned to.

Lists every World Manufacturer Identifier registered in vPIC to a manufacturer, with the country, vehicle type and public availability date of each code.