Vehicle Images

OEM-sourced, VIN-based vehicle images for instant, precise, and high-quality vehicle presentation.

A black Volkswagen ID.4 electric SUV is positioned in the foreground. The background is split into three distinct sections: on the left, a scenic winding mountain road with sunbeams shining through the trees; in the middle, a modern, minimalist architectural structure with beige walls; and on the right, a transparent checkerboard design often used to indicate image background removal. The car is partially positioned over all three backgrounds.

What is Vehicle Images about?

Vehicle Images provides car retailers, importers, and fleet operators with precise and consistent visuals of the car directly from the manufacturer. No need for costly photo shoots - just high-quality images on demand, ready to enhance your listings, apps, and back-end systems.

Features

  • VIN-based OEM images via pull request
  • High-quality visuals that showcase all essential details
  • Up to 10 perspectives available
  • Transparent backgrounds for maximum customization
  • Instant availability, URLs generated in seconds
  • URL integratable in your framework or images downloadable
  • Pricing per VIN request or per package
  • API-ready for seamless use across platforms
  • Usage permitted for digital and offline
  • Usage duration for retail & importers 3 months, for fleet operators up to 3 years

Key Benefits

  • Vehicle Images streamlines fleet management and enhances sales processes.
  • Professional, high quality images without the cost of in-house photography
  • Faster remarketing and reduced time-to-sale
  • Simpler assigning of vehicles and increased efficiency in daily fleet management
  • Enhanced user experience and higher customer trust

Available data

Per VIN retrieval you receive one URL per high-quality visual. The URLs can be integrated directly into your individual framework, which keeps images always up to date in case of updates and changes. Data download of the image is also possible, of course.

The amount of images (so of URLs) you receive depends on the set you choose:
 

Basic Set with 3 perspectives per VIN retrieval

  • 3/4-Front-view
  • 3/4-Rear-view
  • Dashboard-view


Premium Set with 10 perspectives per VIN retrieval

  • Basic Set plus
  • Front-view
  • Side-view
  • Rear-view
  • Detail-view
  • Rim-view
  • Frontseats-view
  • Rearseats-view

Example content of data points:

  • VIN: “WVG…”
  • URL: “https://.../”
  • Text: “Dashboard-view”
  • Type: “.png”

Due to technical reasons there may be deviations in the depiction of the interior of vehicles by the brand SEAT as well as with the provision of transparent images.


Supported Brands and Models

The data set contains original vehicle images from currently 5 brands of the Volkswagen Group:

  • VW passenger cars
  • VW commercial vehicles
  • SEAT
  • Cupra
  • Audi


Current availability:

  • Vehicle-specific images for these brands are available for the last 3 model years
  • Backend contains more than 8 mio. vehicles of the supported brands.

Supported companies

The data product is currently released for the following use cases:

  • Retail & Importer (for the remarketing purpose)
  • Fleet manager and operators (for the remarketing and efficient fleet management purpose)

including associated software providers


Supported Markets

  • EU
  • Iceland
  • Liechtenstein
  • Norway
  • Switzerland
  • UK

Compliance notice

For new cars and young used cars the images may have the potential to fulfil the requirements of the EU regulation EU VO 2023/988, Art. 19 c). Please consult your legal department to assess applicability. GIS does not provide any legal consultation to its customers or third parties.


Combine With

For even more efficiency and better customer experience, our data product „Vehicle Images“ for example can be combined with:

  • VIN Specification

    Data product with 41 data points to describe a vehicle extensively. Available for various purposes of use to speed up business workflows.
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  • Functions on Demand Data

    Original data on available functions on demand in the vehicle and their status. For 3 different user groups with different purposes of use.
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  • VIN Recall

    Integrate current safety recalls and relevant service recalls in your software solution via API. This simplifies and streamlines business processes radically.
    Show details

Together, these products build comprehensive vehicle data that supports digital sales, service, and fleet operations.


Permitted Data Usage

The data set is provided to authorized customers only. The scope of the permitted data usage is defined in the contract between the customer and Volkswagen Group Info Services AG.


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