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Automotive Data Group LLC · United States
Vehicle data infrastructure for the cross-border used-car trade
We turn VINs, auction feeds and public vehicle records into decisions. Automotive Data Group builds data enrichment, market intelligence and demand-generation systems for the companies that source, wholesale and export used vehicles out of the United States.
500+
Vehicles per month at peak in the team’s prior export operation
4
Working languages across our markets
2025
Incorporated in Wyoming, USA
What we do
Three practices, one dataset
Everything we build sits on the same foundation: a clean, VIN-keyed view of a vehicle and the market it sits in.
Vehicle Data Enrichment
Normalise messy inventory into structured, VIN-keyed records — trim, drivetrain, factory equipment, open safety recalls. Built for exporters and wholesalers whose listings arrive as spreadsheets and photographs.
Market Intelligence
Where the volume is going, what it costs and which models actually clear. We track US auction supply and public export statistics so buying decisions rest on evidence rather than instinct.
Demand Generation
Search, content and paid acquisition for exporters, shipping agents and customs brokers. Our team has run marketing for an operation moving hundreds of vehicles a month — the playbook is not theoretical.
The problem
The trade runs on data that nobody has cleaned
Between a US auction lot and a buyer in Warsaw, Tbilisi or Kyiv sits a chain of exporters, shippers, brokers and dealers. Each link keeps its own records, in its own format, and almost none of it is keyed to the one identifier that is stable across the whole chain — the VIN.
We build the layer that makes that chain legible.
Inventory arrives unstructured
Auction exports, dealer feeds and broker spreadsheets describe the same vehicle four different ways. Nothing joins without a key.
Specification is guessed, not verified
A trim badge is not a specification. Buyers on the far side of an ocean pay for equipment the car does not have — and miss equipment it does.
Demand signals arrive too late
By the time a shift in corridor volume is obvious in the trade press, the margin it created has already been taken.
How we work
From raw feed to a decision you can defend
Ingest
We take inventory in whatever shape it exists — CSV exports, auction feeds, scraped listings, a shared spreadsheet — and resolve every row to a VIN.
Decode and enrich
Each VIN is decoded against manufacturer and regulatory sources, then enriched with equipment, recall status and market context.
Model the market
Enriched inventory is scored against comparable supply, historical clearing prices and destination-market demand.
Deliver
Output lands where the work happens: a spreadsheet, a dashboard, or an endpoint your own systems can call.
Tools
Public tools we build and maintain
We ship the small pieces of our stack publicly. They are free, they work, and they are how most people meet us.
VIN Decoder
Decode any 17-character North American VIN against the NHTSA vPIC database. Manufacturer, plant, model year, body class, powertrain — no account, no charge.
Export Cost Calculator
Auction hammer price to landed cost at destination port, with inland transport, ocean freight and duty. Currently in development.
Browser Extension
VIN decoding and recall status overlaid directly on auction and marketplace listings, so you never leave the lot page. On the roadmap.
Research from our desk
View all posts »We publish analysis built on public data — US Census trade statistics, NHTSA records, auction supply — because most of what circulates about this trade is anecdote.
How to read US vehicle export statistics without fooling yourself
US federal trade data is free, detailed and monthly. It is also easy to misread in four specific ways, each of which produces a confident number that is wrong.
What a VIN can and cannot tell you
A VIN is a manufacturing record, not a biography. Knowing exactly where that line falls is the difference between a confident purchase and an expensive surprise at the port.
Tell us what you are trying to move
Whether that is inventory, data or demand. We answer commercial enquiries within one business day.