@meterapp/vehicle-db 2.15.0 → 2.16.0

package/README.md

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 An offline, international vehicle make/model catalog for Node.js and TypeScript. The package combines U.S. model-year data, the UK registered fleet, the European Union's new car and van registration register, the daily-updated Dutch vehicle register, Asian-origin vehicles registered in New Zealand, Malaysian registration transactions, Brazil's national vehicle register, an Indian manufacturer catalog, the Brazil-exclusive Hyundai HB20 family, recent U.S. model configurations from FuelEconomy.gov, and reviewed manufacturer body derivatives and Saudi model-year evidence into one small, zero-dependency API. It never makes runtime network requests.
 
-The current snapshot spans **1990–2027** and includes **1,601 makes** and **42,002 models** in **196,364 model years**, from **13 data sources**. Those are distinct vehicles by name, with case, accents and punctuation normalized while preserving the distinct 03+ badge, which is how the [Car Image API](https://carimage.dev/cars?ref=catalog) counts and lists them. The package's own records number more (1,613 makes from `getMakes()`), because sources spell some makes and models more than one way (`MOTO GUZZI` and `MOTO-GUZZI`) and a few makes have no model in these years; see [Snapshot stats](#snapshot-stats).
+The current snapshot spans **1990–2027** and includes **1,602 makes** and **42,024 models** in **196,386 model years**, from **13 data sources**. Those are distinct vehicles by name, with case, accents and punctuation normalized while preserving the distinct 03+ badge, which is how the [Car Image API](https://carimage.dev/cars?ref=catalog) counts and lists them. The package's own records number more (1,614 makes from `getMakes()`), because sources spell some makes and models more than one way (`MOTO GUZZI` and `MOTO-GUZZI`) and a few makes have no model in these years; see [Snapshot stats](#snapshot-stats).
 
 The catalog covers seven vehicle types: **Motorcycle**, **Passenger Car**, **Truck**, **Bus**, **Multipurpose Passenger Vehicle (MPV)**, **Auto Rickshaw**, and **Other Vehicle**. The European source adds continental models from Dacia, Cupra, DS, Lynk & Co, Alpine, and the Chinese brands entering Europe such as BYD, MG, Omoda, Xpeng, and Nio, as sold in the EU rather than the UK or U.S. The Dutch register keeps that coverage current: vehicles first registered this year appear within days, so 2026 models such as the BYD Atto 2 and Renault 5 E-Tech are already listed. The Asia-Pacific sources add Japanese domestic and kei models, Chinese EVs, Indian and Korean vehicles, Southeast Asian makes such as Perodua and Proton, and additional motorcycles and commercial vehicles. The Brazilian register adds the cars and motorcycles that fill Brazil's roads but are rarely sold elsewhere, such as the Fiat Argo, Mobi and Toro, the Volkswagen Gol and Saveiro, the Renault Kwid, and the Honda Biz and Pop.
 
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 For scoped resolution of a dated catalog record, pass `yearBasis: "catalog-year"` and its evidenced market. Catalog presence does not establish a generation, facelift, derivative or render; requesting visual depth remains unresolved without reviewed appearance evidence. Lynk & Co 03 and 03+ stay distinct, as do Defender OCTA, Range Rover Sport SV and Cayenne Electric from their base models. The regional additions cover only individually evidenced years; 07, generic Song and unverified editions remain pending in [the source plan](docs/mail-coverage-source-plan.md).
 
+New coverage in 2.16.0 adds 22 year/model/type records: seven consistently labeled Saudi Changan model-year entries, four Mexican Changan catalog facts (one overlaps the Saudi CS75 Plus), six Indonesian Wuling models, and six Indian Bajaj passenger/cargo three-wheelers. Per-record official evidence and year semantics are in `data/evidence/manufacturer-reviewed.json`; the regional audit is in [regional-coverage-status.md](docs/regional-coverage-status.md). `WULING` is now a make alongside the official Malaysian `TQ WULING`; search accepts `wuling bingo` for the latter without changing its published IDs or equating Bingo with BinguoEV.
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 ## Factory colors
 
 Factory paint availability is not included. The NZTA and Malaysia records contain the observed basic color of each registered vehicle, not the manufacturer’s stock colors for a make/model/year. Treating those fields as factory availability would produce false positives from repaints, imports, and broad color categories, so the importers intentionally omit them. A future color API should require manufacturer-backed paint options with explicit market and model-year provenance.
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 | Years | 1990–2027 |
 | Sources | 13 |
 | Vehicle types | 7 |
-| Makes | 1,601 |
-| Models | 42,002 |
-| Model years | 196,364 |
-| Make records (`getMakes()`) | 1,613 |
-| Model records (distinct `modelId`) | 46,435 |
-| Model-year records (`getModels()`) | 217,858 |
-| Bundled TypeScript data | 7.55 MB |
+| Makes | 1,602 |
+| Models | 42,024 |
+| Model years | 196,386 |
+| Make records (`getMakes()`) | 1,614 |
+| Model records (distinct `modelId`) | 46,457 |
+| Model-year records (`getModels()`) | 217,880 |
+| Bundled TypeScript data | 7.56 MB |
 
 ## Refreshing and rebuilding