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 "code": "AUT",
 "roman": "XIX",
 "name": "Auto & Vehicle Data",
 "definition": "Auto and vehicle data is measurement of the car market: new- and used-vehicle prices, inventory, registrations, and valuations, tracked across dealers and registries.",
 "primer": "Automotive data begins at the points where vehicles change hands: wholesale auctions, dealer lots, registration offices, and listing sites. Providers capture the prices vehicles actually sell for, how long inventory sits, what dealers list, and how many units are registered or produced, then index and normalise those readings into clean time series. The best-known outputs are wholesale used-vehicle price indices and dealer inventory counts, alongside new-vehicle sales and production estimates.\n\nInvestors read this data to gauge the health of automakers, dealer groups, lenders, and rental fleets, and to anticipate the residual values that sit underneath auto-loan and lease books. A rising used-vehicle index, for example, lifts the collateral behind securitised auto loans and flatters the earnings of firms that carry inventory; a build-up of unsold new cars on dealer lots signals discounting ahead. The figures often move weeks before manufacturers and finance companies report.\n\nBuyers should weigh how representative the panel of auctions, dealers, or registrations is, how far the history runs across past cycles, and the lag between a transaction and its appearance in the feed. Geographic coverage matters, since vehicle markets differ sharply by country, as does whether the data is genuine transaction prices or modelled valuations.",
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   "providers": 7,
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   "markdown": "https://altdataatlas.com/coverage/auto-vehicle/information-technology.md",
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 "asOf": {
  "register": "2026-09-24",
  "coverage": "2026-09-29",
  "latest": "2026-09-29"
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  "url": "https://altdataatlas.com/agents#licence"
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 "citation": "AltData Atlas, Auto & Vehicle Data (https://altdataatlas.com/category/auto-vehicle), as of 2026-09-24. AltData Atlas Data Licence v1.",
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