Credits & Sources.

Where our car data comes from, and the licences behind it.

هذه الصفحة متوفرة حاليًا باللغة الإنجليزية. الترجمة العربية قيد المراجعة.

Car data on this site comes from the audited sources below. Every figure names its source and the date it was retrieved, and anything that could not be verified is left out rather than guessed. No AED price is shown anywhere: no source whose terms allow reuse states one. The full audit — including robots.txt results, licence terms and the verdict for each source — is in SOURCES.md in the project repository.

Dataset: 37 brands · 111 models · 11 licensed photographs · data retrieved 2026-11-10, hero photographs updated 2026-11-11.

Photographs

toyota/land-cruiser
Licence: CC BY 3.0 · retrieved 2026-11-11
Photo: Авто Плюс Новости · Licence: CC BY 3.0 · Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2021_Toyota_Land_Cruiser_300_(Russia)_front_view.jpg
Source file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2021_Toyota_Land_Cruiser_300_(Russia)_front_view.jpg
Local file: /images/cars/toyota-land-cruiser/toyota-land-cruiser-1.jpg
toyota/land-cruiser
Licence: CC BY 3.0 · retrieved 2026-11-11
Photo: Авто Плюс Новости · Licence: CC BY 3.0 · Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2021_Toyota_Land_Cruiser_300_(Russia)_rear_view.png
Source file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2021_Toyota_Land_Cruiser_300_(Russia)_rear_view.png
Local file: /images/cars/toyota-land-cruiser/toyota-land-cruiser-2.png
mercedes-benz/s-class
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-11-11
Photo: Alexander Migl · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercedes-Benz_W223_IAA_2021_1X7A0206.jpg
Source file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercedes-Benz_W223_IAA_2021_1X7A0206.jpg
Local file: /images/cars/mercedes-benz-s-class/mercedes-benz-s-class-1.jpg
mercedes-benz/s-class
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-11-11
Photo: Alexander Migl · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercedes-Benz_W223_IMG_3951.jpg
Source file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercedes-Benz_W223_IMG_3951.jpg
Local file: /images/cars/mercedes-benz-s-class/mercedes-benz-s-class-2.jpg
mercedes-benz/s-class
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-11-11
Photo: Alexander Migl · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercedes-Benz_W223_IMG_6670.jpg
Source file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercedes-Benz_W223_IMG_6670.jpg
Local file: /images/cars/mercedes-benz-s-class/mercedes-benz-s-class-3.jpg
mercedes-benz/s-class
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-11-11
Photo: Dinkun Chen · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MERCEDES-BENZ_S-CLASS_(V223)_China_(5).jpg
Source file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MERCEDES-BENZ_S-CLASS_(V223)_China_(5).jpg
Local file: /images/cars/mercedes-benz-s-class/mercedes-benz-s-class-4.jpg
mercedes-benz/s-class
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-11-11
Photo: Alexander-93 · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercedes-Benz_W223_1X7A7340.jpg
Source file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercedes-Benz_W223_1X7A7340.jpg
Local file: /images/cars/mercedes-benz-s-class/mercedes-benz-s-class-5.jpg
lamborghini/urus
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-11-11
Photo: Alexander Migl · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lamborghini_Urus_at_IAA_2019_IMG_0175.jpg
Source file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lamborghini_Urus_at_IAA_2019_IMG_0175.jpg
Local file: /images/cars/lamborghini-urus/lamborghini-urus-1.jpg
lamborghini/urus
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-11-11
Photo: Dllu · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lamborghini_Urus_front_view_dllu.jpg
Source file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lamborghini_Urus_front_view_dllu.jpg
Local file: /images/cars/lamborghini-urus/lamborghini-urus-2.jpg
lamborghini/urus
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-11-11
Photo: Dllu · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lamborghini_Urus_rear_view_dllu.jpg
Source file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lamborghini_Urus_rear_view_dllu.jpg
Local file: /images/cars/lamborghini-urus/lamborghini-urus-3.jpg
lamborghini/urus
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-11-11
Photo: Dllu · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lamborghini_Urus_oblique_view_dllu_01.jpg
Source file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lamborghini_Urus_oblique_view_dllu_01.jpg
Local file: /images/cars/lamborghini-urus/lamborghini-urus-4.jpg

Data sources

NHTSA vPIC API (US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
Public data (US federal government)
Vehicle identification: makes, models, model years — used to cross-check that a model name exists for a make. The service was briefly in maintenance on the audit day; the pipeline records that and continues.
EPA fueleconomy.gov (US Environmental Protection Agency)
Public data (US federal government)
Fuel economy and engine records (cylinders, displacement, drive, transmission, mpg). MPG is converted to L/100 km by an exact, labelled formula; MPGe for EVs is never converted.
Wikidata
CC0 (public domain)
Structured facts: brand country of origin and founded year, with references.
Wikipedia
CC BY-SA 4.0 — attribution on every model page
Model infoboxes (production years, body style, layout, engine, power, torque, transmission, weight) and the check for whether a brand or model is mentioned in connection with the UAE.
Wikimedia Commons
Varies per file — checked per image (only CC0, Public domain, CC BY, CC BY-SA accepted)
Photography for the hero models only, downloaded locally — never hotlinked — with author, licence and source page recorded.
Frankfurter API v2 (exchange rates)
Free for commercial use, no API key; caching encouraged
The site's single USD→AED rate source (3.6725 on 2026-11-10, the AED peg). Display only, never for transactions.
Manufacturer press sites
Link-only — nothing copied
Official specifications and photography are never copied from manufacturer sites. They may only be linked to, and no Phase B figure depends on them.
Open datasets (Kaggle / GitHub)
Not used in Phase B
Audited and rejected: Kaggle's terms prohibit scraping and dataset provenance is unclear; no GitHub dataset with a clear permissive licence was needed. See SOURCES.md.
ExchangeRate-API (free tier)
Not used — terms forbid redistribution
Audited and rejected for publishing a rate on a public site. Frankfurter is used instead.

Brand names appear on this site as plain text only. No manufacturer logos, badges or copyrighted brand artwork are used anywhere.