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Carfolio.com has been collecting and collating automotive technical data for many years, before actually having a website or even an internet-connected computer. Realising that there would be interest in this database, I decided to put my data up online in a very useful and functional way. It has always and will always be free for anyone to utilise. Some people, however, have decided to crawl the site and put all the data into their own database and resell and republish the information without attribution, credit or acknowledgement. Some go as far as to add 10mm to the basic dimensions so as to try and disguise their actions... I find that extremely bizarre, as part of the whole idea behind Carfolio.com is to get as many errors found and corrected as possible, and to that end I have always encouraged feedback and dialogue about the specifications. Factual errors are always corrected if sufficient sources are supplied.

So as to ensure the best possible quality of data for Carfolio.com users, here is a list of the sites currently known to be using the data without attribution. I will not give them a link, of course, as that will unduly increase their search engine ranking.

• autofiles dot org
• carspector dot com
• data4car dot com
• carocean dot co dot uk (and de, es, pl, it, fr)
• scorpiocars dot net
• ukmotorist dot co dot uk
• getcarspecs dot com

Please be wary of the data from these sites as they are definitely not updated and almost certainly have introduced additional errors when crawling or attempting to obfuscate the source of the data.