# Auto & Vehicle Data — alternative data chapter XIX (AUT) Canonical: https://altdataatlas.com/category/auto-vehicle JSON: https://altdataatlas.com/api/categories/auto-vehicle.json As of: 2026-09-24 Licence: AltData Atlas Data Licence v1 (https://altdataatlas.com/agents#licence) — attribution required; no bulk redistribution. Not investment advice. > Auto and vehicle data is measurement of the car market: new- and used-vehicle prices, inventory, registrations, and valuations, tracked across dealers and registries. 3 providers tracked, 3 verified, 0 offer a free sample. ## Primer Automotive data begins at the points where vehicles change hands: wholesale auctions, dealer lots, registration offices, and listing sites. Providers capture the prices vehicles actually sell for, how long inventory sits, what dealers list, and how many units are registered or produced, then index and normalise those readings into clean time series. The best-known outputs are wholesale used-vehicle price indices and dealer inventory counts, alongside new-vehicle sales and production estimates. Investors read this data to gauge the health of automakers, dealer groups, lenders, and rental fleets, and to anticipate the residual values that sit underneath auto-loan and lease books. A rising used-vehicle index, for example, lifts the collateral behind securitised auto loans and flatters the earnings of firms that carry inventory; a build-up of unsold new cars on dealer lots signals discounting ahead. The figures often move weeks before manufacturers and finance companies report. Buyers should weigh how representative the panel of auctions, dealers, or registrations is, how far the history runs across past cycles, and the lag between a transaction and its appearance in the feed. Geographic coverage matters, since vehicle markets differ sharply by country, as does whether the data is genuine transaction prices or modelled valuations. Typical universe: Automakers, dealers, rental fleets and parts suppliers, and the auto lenders and insurers exposed to vehicle prices and registrations. ## Providers Since = earliest year on record for the provider. Price bands are indicative: < $50k, $50–150k, $150k+; — = not published. Coverage tier: inferred = editorial inference (likely, unconfirmed); stated = quoted from the provider's own page. Each provider has a Markdown twin at /provider/.md. | Provider | Since | Delivery | Price band | Sample | Verified | Coverage tier | Regions | Approx. companies | Ticker-mapped | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | [Edmunds](https://altdataatlas.com/provider/edmunds) | 1994 | — | — | — | yes | inferred | North America | — | not stated | | [Manheim](https://altdataatlas.com/provider/manheim) | 1945 | — | — | — | yes | inferred | North America | — | not stated | | [Wards Intelligence](https://altdataatlas.com/provider/wards-intelligence) | 1924 | — | — | — | yes | stated | North America | — | not stated | ## Sector coverage | Sector | Providers | Stated | Page | |---|---|---|---| | Energy | 8 | 3 | https://altdataatlas.com/coverage/auto-vehicle/energy | | Materials | 8 | 3 | https://altdataatlas.com/coverage/auto-vehicle/materials | | Industrials | 10 | 4 | https://altdataatlas.com/coverage/auto-vehicle/industrials | | Consumer Discretionary | 20 | 11 | https://altdataatlas.com/coverage/auto-vehicle/consumer-discretionary | | Consumer Staples | 13 | 6 | https://altdataatlas.com/coverage/auto-vehicle/consumer-staples | | Health Care | 7 | 4 | https://altdataatlas.com/coverage/auto-vehicle/health-care | | Financials | 8 | 3 | https://altdataatlas.com/coverage/auto-vehicle/financials | | Information Technology | 7 | 4 | https://altdataatlas.com/coverage/auto-vehicle/information-technology | | Communication Services | 7 | 3 | https://altdataatlas.com/coverage/auto-vehicle/communication-services | | Utilities | 7 | 2 | https://altdataatlas.com/coverage/auto-vehicle/utilities | | Real Estate | 10 | 4 | https://altdataatlas.com/coverage/auto-vehicle/real-estate | Cite as: AltData Atlas, Auto & Vehicle Data (https://altdataatlas.com/category/auto-vehicle), as of 2026-09-24. AltData Atlas Data Licence v1.