CarYearly answers the questions people ask about a specific car and model year: what mileage it gets, what owners complain about, which recalls cover it and how it did in crash tests, using official U.S. government data only.
Who we are
CarYearly is run by Abdel Beldy, an it engineer and consultant, as an independent publisher. He designed the code that turns government data into these pages, reviews the written content, writes the VIN guides and handles corrections. Read more about Abdel.
What we do
We combine five federal data sets that are usually scattered across different sites: EPA fuel economy for every version of a model, NHTSA owner complaints broken down by component, NHTSA recall campaigns, NHTSA 5-star crash ratings and NHTSA's VIN database. Each model-year page puts them side by side and compares the year with the model's other years.
How we keep it accurate
- Every number comes from a data file. Figures and sentences are generated by code from the source data, never typed in by hand.
- Automatic checks. Each build compares our counts with NHTSA's own figures and blocks thin or near-duplicate pages from being published.
- Sources on every page, and a methodology page that explains every calculation.
What we don't do
We don't review or rate cars, estimate prices or values, or sell vehicle history data. We don't call a model year good or bad: we show the official numbers and explain what they can and can't tell you.
Independence and funding
CarYearly is not affiliated with any carmaker, dealer or government agency. The site is free and supported by advertising, and it may include clearly labelled links to services such as vehicle history reports that pay us a fee. Those never change the data on a page. See our editorial and affiliate policy.
Contact
Corrections and questions: hello@caryearly.com, or see the contact page.