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Car Interfaces

Data

The archive’s records as files, free to use with credit.

Download

CSV files, rebuilt each time the archive changes.

  • Button counts (CSV file)

    button-census.csv57 rows

    Physical button counts by car, with the photograph each was counted from. On the site: Button Census.

  • Cars on sale now (CSV file)

    on-sale-controls.csv125 rows

    Cars on sale now: climate controls, volume control and indicators, with the photographs that show them, plus body, power, length and starting price. On the site: Physical controls.

  • All cars (CSV file)

    cars.csv1,147 rows

    Every car in the archive: maker, model, generation, years, cluster type, climate controls and main input. On the site: Cars.

Licence and credit

The files are free to use with credit, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY 4.0).

Credit them as “Car Interfaces, carinterfaces.com”, with the date you downloaded the file.

The photographs are not part of these files. Each keeps its own licence, shown with its credit on its photo page.

For teams

Paid tools for teams are planned. None of them exists yet, and nothing is for sale.

  • Shared boards for a team
  • An alert when a car or generation is added
  • An API and bulk export
  • Custom comparison reports

The library itself stays free.

If you would use any of these, the form below tells us which to build first.

Used only to write to you about these tools. Never shown on the site.

The one closest to how you would use the archive.

Which would you use?

What you would do with these tools, or what is missing from the list.

Search the archive

Search by maker, model, chassis code, year, decade, element or system. Use the up and down arrow keys to move through results and Enter to open one. With a search typed, Tab switches between all results and each scope.

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