About us

Motor Wiki started the way a lot of good car habits start: with one more tab open, three sources open next to it, and a quiet frustration that the “full story” of a model was never in one place.

Not the brochure version. Not a forum thread that derails into tyre brands by post twelve. Something closer to what you want when you are actually trying to understand a car — what it was built for, how the generations differ, which engines sat under which codes, and what ownership really looks like once the launch press has gone home.

What we are building

We are building a car encyclopedia. Model by model, brand by brand. Specs where they earn their space, written properly. History and development when they matter. Features described like an adult who has driven, not like a highlight reel.

The long game is simple to say and hard to do well: the biggest useful car encyclopedia we can grow — pages you can send to a friend without the apology, “ignore the ads and the first three paragraphs of fluff.”

How we write

We favour calm authority over hype. A roadster does not need to be called iconic three times to be interesting. A chassis code should be explained once, then used like a tool. When numbers disagree between markets or years, we would rather say so than invent a single “official” fantasy figure.

Tables come first when the car deserves them. Narrative follows — development, design, engines, the way the car drives, ownership notes that are real, and a short legacy that stops when the story is done. No padded checklists written only to hit a word count.

Who is behind it

Motor Wiki is run by people who like cars for the usual mix of reasons: the mechanical ones, the historical ones, the slightly obsessive ones. We are not a dealership group. We are not a PR desk. We are a small site that publishes reference pages and keeps tightening them.

If a page feels careful, that is intentional. If something is wrong, we want to fix it — email [email protected] with the model, the claim, and a source if you have one.

What we are not

• Not a marketplace. We do not sell cars here.
• Not an official brand channel. Manufacturer names appear because the cars do.
• Not a substitute for a workshop manual, a pre-purchase inspection, or common sense on the road.

Where the project is going

More brands. Deeper model families. Cleaner structure so related cars find each other without you hunting. Better images when we can source them honestly. Less noise everywhere else.

If you are here for a single evening with one chassis code, welcome. If you come back for the next generation in the same family, that is the site working.

Thanks for reading Motor Wiki — and for caring about the details enough to open an encyclopedia page in the first place.