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Even if the advertising material was produced by an outside company, it was done in the name of the manufacturer, often in cooperation with their marketing and sales organization. This was the way the cars were presented to the customers and what most of them could know about them.
We can have a lot of opinions on how this material was written, some of it is really bad and confusing, but mostly we can easily see how the cars were referred to. We can also debate what´s a modelname and what´s not, but if we delete everything that´s not a unique name there won´t be much to enter on cars built before about 1950, and in many cases several years after that.
This way of naming cars, before dedicated modelnames appeared, only by bodystyle, engine or trimlevel was very common through decades. Entering that info in the model field just reflects a common practise of that era. You see it as forcing names on the cars, I can understand that, but if we delete this type of information there´s nothing left after entering the Make of the car.
On this site we deal with almost every type of vehicle that moves on land, to enter all information absolutely correct in every detail regarding them is virtually impossible. It covers vehicles produced all over the globe, during more than a century.
We make a lot of effort to find correct designations for them when they´re sold on different export markets, it´s not uncommon that at least the modelname is changed, and sometimes also the make.
The natural source for this information is of course advertising material, with its pros and cons. We could of course reject this information and only use the designations used on homemarket, or the set of codes that might be connected to the vehicle. But I don´t think it would improve the site really. And allowing the cars of the early era to be described as they were when new is no different to me than to find out how names have changed from market to market.
To make the site searchable and consistent we need to use these commercial designations as they were, and also add the codes. Both sides carry vital information. One problem is that the given material can be inconsistent and contradictory, but we can deal with that and come to a decision on how to enter it. We also have only one field for codes, intended for chassis, this field contains several types of codes today (Engine, body, platform etc.) depending on what codes are available from different makers. This can also be improved.
We can have a lot of opinions on how this material was written, some of it is really bad and confusing, but mostly we can easily see how the cars were referred to. We can also debate what´s a modelname and what´s not, but if we delete everything that´s not a unique name there won´t be much to enter on cars built before about 1950, and in many cases several years after that.
This way of naming cars, before dedicated modelnames appeared, only by bodystyle, engine or trimlevel was very common through decades. Entering that info in the model field just reflects a common practise of that era. You see it as forcing names on the cars, I can understand that, but if we delete this type of information there´s nothing left after entering the Make of the car.
On this site we deal with almost every type of vehicle that moves on land, to enter all information absolutely correct in every detail regarding them is virtually impossible. It covers vehicles produced all over the globe, during more than a century.
We make a lot of effort to find correct designations for them when they´re sold on different export markets, it´s not uncommon that at least the modelname is changed, and sometimes also the make.
The natural source for this information is of course advertising material, with its pros and cons. We could of course reject this information and only use the designations used on homemarket, or the set of codes that might be connected to the vehicle. But I don´t think it would improve the site really. And allowing the cars of the early era to be described as they were when new is no different to me than to find out how names have changed from market to market.
To make the site searchable and consistent we need to use these commercial designations as they were, and also add the codes. Both sides carry vital information. One problem is that the given material can be inconsistent and contradictory, but we can deal with that and come to a decision on how to enter it. We also have only one field for codes, intended for chassis, this field contains several types of codes today (Engine, body, platform etc.) depending on what codes are available from different makers. This can also be improved.