The Car Library — every model ever made
19,113 models indexed across 1,209 brands — 13,424 with original photography.
This library is a catalogue, not a review section. It lists every production car, prototype and concept the open record knows about, by marque, with a photograph wherever Wikimedia Commons holds a free one. Its job is to give a name a home: when a reader searches for an obscure coachbuilt one-off, a badge-engineered export model or a concept that never reached a showroom, the entry here says when it was introduced, who built it, and what the sourced specification looks like — and nothing more. Where the public record is silent we leave the row blank rather than fill it in.
Ownership cost and reliability verdicts live separately, in the United States ownership index, because they come from a different kind of evidence: federal complaint and recall filings, and EPA fuel-economy tests. The two sections link to each other wherever a catalogue entry matches a scored model year. To read a verdict, start with the buyer's guides, which explain what the numbers mean before you use them.
Major marques
IIndependent & coachbuilders2355 modelsFFord644 models
Honda595 models
Toyota504 modelsBBmw498 models
Renault495 models
Mercedes-Benz419 models
Ferrari381 models
Chevrolet343 models
Peugeot326 models
Volkswagen326 models
Nissan319 models
Fiat301 modelsSSuzuki266 modelsAAudi257 models
Citroën257 models
Opel238 models
Bugatti192 models
Alfa Romeo191 modelsVVolvo190 models
Mazda178 models
Mitsubishi178 models
Porsche177 models
Dodge163 models
Honda595 modelsToyota504 modelsBBmw498 modelsRenault495 modelsMercedes-Benz419 modelsFerrari381 modelsChevrolet343 modelsPeugeot326 modelsVolkswagen326 modelsNissan319 modelsFiat301 modelsSSuzuki266 modelsAAudi257 modelsCitroën257 modelsOpel238 modelsBugatti192 modelsAlfa Romeo191 modelsVVolvo190 modelsMazda178 modelsMitsubishi178 modelsPorsche177 modelsDodge163 models