Find me some car websites - offering profiles, stats etc. Having trouble!

August 13, 2009 4:03 AM

In order to find it if it's worth scratching a new web development itch, I'm looking for some links to websites that relating to cars that offer the following functionality...

• Allow users to show off their car with photos, text, explanations etc - like a car profile, in a way
• offer tracking of car stats, mileage, fuel economy/fill-ups
• give general data about car servicing/warranty periods, service requirements
• any website that you'd deem as being "web 2.0" (hate the jargon, but there we go) with functionality that allows users to log, store, and share data around their cars and driving passions with user-friendly design

So far I've come up with... mymilemarker - http://mymilemarker.com/
fuelly - http://www.fuelly.com/
http://yourgarageonline.com/
http://thecartracker.com/
This post on mashable
Most of these relate to tracking of data and servicing, which is only 1/2 of my intended search. I'm really trying to find some of the more 'social' car sites intended for people to show off their pride and joy.

posted by newformula to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Best answer: CarDomain is a pre-MySpace web 1.0 "show off my car" with friends and all guestbooks.

Its pretty much Geocities for cars though.
posted by SirStan at 8:50 AM on August 13, 2009

Best answer: You could try searching for Facebook applications that have "car" in them. There seems to be one called Car IQ that people use.
posted by bluefly at 3:02 PM on August 13, 2009

Best answer: If I were you, I would probably do it as a Facebook application and piggy-back off their user-base/infrastructure.

It's a great idea - please, "go do".
posted by jkaczor at 7:47 PM on August 13, 2009

Response by poster: Thanks both, appreciated!
posted by newformula at 5:34 AM on August 14, 2009