About MotorAlbum

MotorAlbum is an independent visual history of the car, from the earliest steam carriages to current electric models. It holds 303 models from 122 makes, with 420 licensed photos and 4,028 sourced facts from 591 sources. It is growing and does not claim to be exhaustive.

Two levels of coverage

• Illustrated archive entries give a model's documented period, body type and powertrain where the sources state them, a short factual description, at least one checked photo and references. Specifications are not required, and anything not documented is left unknown.
• Detailed reference entries — currently 12 SUV families — add every generation, facelifts, specifications by market and side-by-side comparisons.

How the data is kept honest

• Every fact has a source. Each date, dimension, capacity and powertrain links to the page it comes from; a checker re-reads every source and confirms the quoted passage is there and states the figure.
• Manufacturer sources first (press releases, media sites, brochures, specification sheets), then reference works and the motoring press to fill gaps. Wikipedia is cited by the exact revision read.
• Markets are kept apart. A US-market figure and a European figure are separate rows. Comparisons only set dimensions side by side when every generation has figures for the same market and body.
• Three kinds of date. “First shown” is the reveal; “production” is factory production; “model years” are a market's designation (mainly North America) and often begin in the previous calendar year.
• Unknown is labelled, not guessed. “Not documented here” means we have no sourced figure yet.
• No opinions or ratings. We do not publish driving impressions, reliability ratings, crash-test results, prices or running costs.
• Photos match the car. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences, chosen from categories for the specific model, generation or facelift and checked by eye. Replicas and reconstructions are labelled as such, a photo that only shows a generation in general is labelled “Representative image”, and no model year is read off a car's appearance. AI-generated pictures are never used. See image credits.
• Brands and owners are kept apart. A brand is listed under the country where it originated; parent companies and later owners are shown with their dates.

Corrections

Spotted a mistake or a missing car? Send a suggestion with a source link. Suggestions are reviewed before anything changes, and accepted corrections are kept in a separate correction file so they survive future data updates.

Units

Figures are shown in the unit the source uses, with our conversion in brackets: millimetres and inches; kilowatts, metric horsepower (PS) and SAE horsepower (hp); newton-metres and pound-feet; litres and cubic feet. Luggage volumes measured by the European VDA (ISO 3832) method and the North American SAE method are not comparable.