The AIM of the Automobile Registry is to create a listing of all makes and models of car that have existed. It is not a task that one or a group of people can do alone, as the history of the automobile has been so incredibly diverse.

Automobiles play such an important part of our lives, and though the history of most of the 'big players' are known, there were hundreds of other manufacturers who's existence and history will be forgotten if we do not try to centrally and globally to collect and preserve this data.

Also, and this is from where our project idea grew, it would be interesting to have a platform where one could record key data about each model, and somehow track "survival" rates and illustrate surviving examples of each model - obviously interesting the further back in automobile history one goes.

Of all the inventions of "modern times" the invention and commercialisation of the Automobile has probably had one of the most profound effects on the growth of new societies and economies. Other monumentous inventions like electric lighting & utilities, sound rcording, moving pictures, flight, advances in medicine, computers have been just as important. However the Automobile holds a special place in the gallery of inventions as it showed people that boundries once considered far, were not. It gave people more personal freedoms, adventure, romance and innumerable other delights.

The automobile changed our lives by making the world a smaller place. The automobile was also a backbone of the 'new industry'; it created a giant industry that created more jobs, and in turn caused many other industries to be created to supply auto components.

People could live further from their workplace, cities and suburbia expanded, roads had to be built, allowing people to travel further and gain a wider experience and knowledge about the world.